The Rise and Fall of Matthew Perry: A Tragic Tale
In the year leading up to Matthew Perry’s shocking October 28, 2023, death, it seemed that the 54-year-old Friends star — who had long struggled with addiction — was on the up and up. While promoting his memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Terrible Thing, in September 2022, he revealed he was 18 months clean. Filmmaker Adam McKay, who had cast Perry in 2021’s Don’t Look Up before the actor had to pull out due to a medical emergency, said Perry had plans for an ambitious superhero comeback project.
Athenna Crosby, a model and entertainment reporter, had met Perry for lunch at the Hotel Bel-Air the day before he died. “He was talking about how excited he was to have a second act,” Crosby told Us on November 1. “He was in a positive place and being extra healthy.”
The Truth Behind the Facade: The Autopsy Report
But Perry’s autopsy report soon indicated otherwise. The 29-page document, released on December 15, revealed that the beloved actor, who was found face down in the hot tub at his Pacific Palisades, California, home, had died from “acute effects of ketamine.
” While Perry had been on ketamine infusion therapy to treat depression, the medical examiner concluded the drugs in his system — equivalent to the amount used during general anesthesia — couldn’t have been from his last known therapy session, a week and a half before he died, suggesting that he may have been using the drug recreationally.
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