Matthew Perry’s Mother is Sued in Friends Star’s Death, Final Days

Matthew PerryThe family of the deceased commemorates Friends star and looking ahead to the criminal trial for two of the people charged in connection with his death.

In an interview that aired on the Today Monday show, the a year after Perry’s death at the age of 54 of the acute effects of ketaminePerry’s mother Suzanne Morrison, his stepfather Dateline correspondent Keith Morrison and three of his sisters – Caitlin, Emily and Madeline Morrison – looked back on Perry’s final days and what they will remember about their late relative.

Suzanne recalled that shortly before Perry died, she felt that “what was going to happen next to him was inevitable, and he felt that very strongly.”

“He went through a period, interestingly enough, right before he died when he showed me one of his new houses,” she said in the sit-down with NBC News’ Savannah Guthrie. “He came up to me and said, ‘I love you so much, and I’m so happy to be with you right now. And I’m so…” It was almost like it was a premonition or something. I didn’t think about it at the time, but I thought, “How long has it been since we had a conversation like that?” It’s been years.”

In the days before he died, Perry told his mother, “I’m not scared anymore,” she recalled, adding that that made her “worried.”

Perry was found dead in the hot tub of his Los Angeles home and the actor, who had spoke extensively about his struggles with addiction over the yearshad said a year earlier, tied to the publication of his memoirs, that he was sober and seemed determined to stay clean.

Even after his death, those who knew him said he was still sober.

But in the Monday interview with TodayKeith mused about whether Perry was still sober or, as prosecutors allege, had become addicted to ketamine.

When asked if they thought Perry was still sober and “on his path” when he died, Keith said, “it seemed to us like he was,” as Suzanne shook her head.

“Not for you?” he told her. “It certainly seemed that way to me.”

Keith continued, “Although he had been treated with ketamine, it had not become something he had no control over. Even though he was a man who made decisions, “I can handle this, I can do this, I can tell you what’s right. I know the entire system inside and out. I know what the medicine will do to me.’ So there was that concern: what is he really doing.

And Perry’s sister Madeline commented: “I don’t even know if he had relapsed in his mind.”

Now, a year after Perry’s death, five people have been charged and charged in an investigation into what happened to the actor, which has uncovered a “broad underground criminal network.”

Three of them have reached plea agreements and are cooperating with prosecutors, while two of the defendants, Dr. Salvador Plasencia and an alleged dealer Jasveen Sangha, known as the ‘Ketamine Queen’, are facing charges. will be tried in early 2025.

Suzanne said she was “excited” about the charges, and Keith hopes the legal action will have an impact.

“What I hope, and I think the agencies involved in this, hope is that people who have put themselves in the business of supplying people with the drugs that will kill them are now aware,” he said. . “It doesn’t matter what your professional credentials are. You’re going down, honey.”

Keith also hopes Perry’s experience will provide a lesson.

“What he taught the world is that no amount of money can cure an addict. Something else is needed,” he said. That’s what we’re trying to do (with the foundation).”

Perry’s family also spoke about the Matthew Perry Foundation of Canada, established after the actor’s death in his native country, which is separate from the American Matthew Perry Foundation but both organizations have similar intentions.

Writing in his memoirs, Perry spoke in the final years of his life about his efforts to help fellow addicts and how he hoped he would be remembered that way.

“He made it a major focus of his life to help other people, to encourage other people to say, ‘I need help.’ He tried to show people that that was a courageous thing to do,” said Caitlin, executive director of the Matthew Perry Foundation of Canada.

And Suzanne is at peace with her own boundaries when it comes to helping her son.

“I am a very happy woman. But there was one problem, there was one problem that I couldn’t overcome. I couldn’t help him,” she said.

She added, speaking about her support of the foundation: ‘The one thing I have to learn – (and it is) very difficult – is that you have to stop blaming yourself. Because you don’t understand what your child or what your husband or wife is going through. And you have to stop, because it’s tearing you apart.”

Perry’s family talked about how they sometimes still talk to him or feel the urge to contact him a year after his death.

And his mother said fans continue to visit his grave and leave letters about the “incredible” impact he had on them.

“Every time I’m there, people will come up to him, even now. That usually disappears,” she says. ‘They leave very nice letters to him. Like, ‘I felt so sad. You helped me through my teenage years. ”

“Maybe one day I’ll release them so people can see,” she said of the notes. “But they really loved him because they could identify with him.”