The death of Matthew Perry, an actor whose charm and wit captivated millions of people on Friends, has opened a debate about the reality of his addictions. Perry's death at age 54 due to a ketamine overdose, the Daily Mail reports, stands in stark contrast to the journey toward sobriety he described in his 2022 memoir.
As the media has reported, in the months before his death, Perry was still immersed in drug addiction. The actor, who lived with a sobriety aide in his house, would have resorted to various methods to obtain drugs. Among these would be dating apps.
According to the source cited by the Daily Mail, the interpreter used the Raya dating application to meet young women, between 21 and 25 years old, who provided him with Oxycontin, a powerful opioid painkiller, and other drugs. "He would go out with them and then say, 'Can you get me something?'" the source revealed.
Additionally, Perry would convince these women that he needed the drugs to treat his pain, and once these relationships ended, he would simply move on to the next person. In this way, the actor would have entered a vicious circle from which he would not have been able to get out.
The surprising thing is that these visits managed to circumvent the security measures at his home, since neither the nurses nor the companions could search the visitors for drugs, a limitation that Perry took advantage of. "When they are in someone's house, they do not have the same permissions as in a rehabilitation center. They cannot search visitors to see if there are drugs," the informant explained.
In addition to this information, Perry would have been "receiving ketamine infusion therapy for depression and anxiety," according to USA Today. Other details obtained by Page Six indicate that a close friend described him as "angry and moody" in the weeks before he died from testosterone injections.
But a contradiction emerges from a police report, in which a person close to Perry said the actor had been in a "good mood" recently. This observation coincides with that expressed by the model and journalist Athenna Crosby, who was photographed with Perry on a date at the Bel-Air hotel shortly before his death.
