The death of the actor Matthew Perry, whose body was found on October 28 in his pool in Los Angeles (United States), was “accidental.” This is determined by the final autopsy, which was revealed this Friday: “He suffered the acute effects of ketamine”the Los Angeles Medical Examiner's Department has stated.
The report adds: “Contributing factors to Perry's death include drowning, coronary artery disease and the effects of buprenorphine (used to treat opioid use disorder). The manner of death is accidental.”he detailed.
It must be remembered that the actor, who played the famous character of Chandler Bing in Friends For 10 years, he had serious addiction problems since the 90s. “I was in a very big problem; my life was hell,” he said in an interview. Perry entered very expensive detoxification centers on several occasions: “I have spent more than 9 million dollars trying to get rid of it.”
At 54 years old, he was going through a good time. He had been undergoing treatment for months and had returned to playing sports. In fact, hours before his death he had been at the club playing pickleball, a hybrid between tennis and paddle tennis that is booming in American culture. Witnesses who saw the actor playing hours before he died admit that he was “in a good mood,” as they told TMZ. According to his coach, the actor used sports as an outlet to stay sober after decades of fighting drug and alcohol addiction. In fact, Perry was also helping others with his recovery through sports: “He had so many things to do at his rehab center and trying to get people clean. He was always trying to help people.”
Matthew Perry and his drug addiction
The renowned actor of Friends He opened up in his 2022 memoirs, Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing, about his addiction to drug and alcohol consumption. He even confessed that he was in a coma for two weeks due to drug consumption due to a serious colon problem. Perry narrates in that same book that he took 55 Vicodin pills – a painkiller derived from opium – a day. “Between the third and sixth season I was a little gone. They were difficult years. I couldn't stop because the disease and addiction are progressive.”