Matthew Perry’s mother says one of their final conversations “worried” her

28 October, 2024

Matthew Perry‘s mother has revealed that she was “worried” by her late son’s behaviour during one of their final conversations before his death.

Perry was tragically found dead at his Los Angeles home on October 28 last year, aged 54. An autopsy report ruled his manner of death as an accidental drug overdose, and showed that he died from the acute effects of ketamine, with contributing factors including drowning.

Now, one year on from the Friends star’s death, Perry’s mother Suzanne Morrison has opened up about one of their final conversations before his death. Speaking to The Today Show‘s Savannah Guthrie, Morrison had noticed that something felt off with Perry during a meeting shortly before he had died.

Morrison said to Guthrie: “He went through a period, interestingly enough just before he died, when he was showing me one of his new houses. He came up to me and he said, ‘I love you so much and I’m so happy to be with you now.’ It was almost as though 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’ve had a conversation like that. It’s been years.’”

She continued, saying Perry was oddly at peace with “what was going to happen next”: “I think there was something. There was an inevitability to what was going to happen next to him, and he felt it very strongly. But he said, ‘I’m not frightened anymore.’ And it worried me.”

Morrison – and the rest of Perry’s family – participated in a longer interview with The Today Show, which will air in full later today (October 28). Guthrie teased that there’s “stuff to announce” surrounding Perry’s work helping other people get sober in the full interview.

Earlier this month, Dr Mark Chavez was charged in connection with the actor’s death and had pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute ketamine. Two others – Perry’s assistant Kenneth Iwasama and friend Erik Fleming – have pleaded guilty to their involvement in the Friends star’s fatal overdose.

Matthew Perry
Matthew Perry. Credit: Michael Kovac/Getty

Iwasama, Fleming and Chavez were offered lesser charges by prosecutors in exchange for their cooperation as they pursue others they believe to be more responsible for Perry’s death, namely Dr Salvador Plasencia and Jasveen Sangha – the so called ‘Ketamine Queen’ – who allegedly supplied Perry with ketamine.

Sangha has pleaded not guilty and claims she never met Perry. Dr Plasencia has also pleaded not guilty to illegally selling ketamine to Perry in the month before his death. Both will go on trial in March 2025.

In other news, Hollywood addiction expert Joe Schrank recently said that Perry had surrounded himself with a “toxic” group of “enablers”, explaining: “It was toxic. But that’s what they do. Addicts like Perry are going to surround themselves with enablers – assistants who will not draw lines in the sand, sycophantic hangers-on who’ll do anything to be near a celebrity, including get them drugs – and distance themselves from people that will tell them hard truths.”

For help, advice or more information regarding addiction in the UK, visit the FRANK website. In the US, visit SAMHSA.

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