Matthew Perry’s death continues to dominate the news. Perry, best known for his role as Chandler Bing in Friends, died on October 28 in his Los Angeles home after drowning in a jacuzzi. It had previously been reported that there were no drugs or foul play involved. However, Perry’s cause of death was revealed earlier this week, revealing that he died as a result of the acute effects of ketamine, a drug used to treat depression and anxiety.
Perry’s struggle with alcohol and drug addiction is well known to the public. According to reports, the actor, who had been open about his struggles with addiction almost his entire career, had been sober for more than 19 months before his death. However, recently, a friend of the late star shockingly revealed that the actor who died of a ketamine overdose was ”not clean and was lying”.
‘I often thought I was going to die,’ Friends star Matthew Perry said of his Ketamine use.
Matthew Perry battled addiction, friend claims he lied about sobriety
Perry’s friend, who did not want to be identified, told Dailymail that the actor was ”never clean and lied about being sober.”
Perry’s friend told the media house, ”He lied to everyone about being clean. He was never. It’s heartbreaking. ”You know, the biggest lie he probably told was to himself.”
Unraveling ketamine: The drug linked to the death of actor Matthew Perry
”He could be quite a manipulative person when it came to his struggles with using, but it was such a struggle, such a battle, and he battled every day to the end,” the source added.
Perry’s autopsy report revealed earlier this week that the actor died as a result of the acute effects of ketamine.
“Contributing factors in Mr. Perry’s death include drowning, coronary artery disease, and the effects of buprenorphine (used to treat opioid use disorder),” the medical examiner said in a statement. “The manner of death is an accident. ”
Matthew Perry wrote about ketamine infusion therapy in his memoir
Matthew Perry wrote about ketamine infusion therapy in his memoir, ‘Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir,’ revealing that he felt like “dying” during the hour-long therapy session.
Perry revealed in a blog post about his drug addiction that he received ketamine infusion therapy at a Swiss rehab clinic during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Ketamine was a very popular street drug in the 1980s,” Perry wrote in his book. “There is a synthetic form of it now, and it’s used for two reasons: to ease pain and help with depression.”
During the hour-long ketamine infusion therapy, the actor wrote that he felt like dying.
“Oh, I thought, ‘This is what happens when you die,'” he said. “Yet I would continually sign up for this s**t because it was something different, and anything different is good.”
Matthew Perry began acting at the age of 15, but rose to prominence in the 1990s series Friends as Chandler Bing, which made him a star overnight.
