During a recent interview, Kayti Edwards, Mathew Perry’s ex-girlfriend, recalled walking into the actor’s apartment and finding him desperately trying to stop using drugs.
Edwards revealed the shocking situation while speaking with Sun. She claims that she dated him Friends star in 2006. She became his personal assistant years after they broke up.
“I was at Matthew’s house in the Hollywood Hills,” she shared. “It was in bad shape.”
“He had been getting high all night on a large amount of drugs, most likely crack cocaine and other substances,” he continued. “I found Matthew on the couch with his hands glued to his legs; he was desperately sad. I had to use nail polish remover and olive oil to free it.”
Edwards became Matthew Perry’s assistant in 2011, when he was reportedly at the height of his addiction problems.
“We were literally pulling the hair out of his legs,” he added. “And he was left with red, raw spots.
Matthew Perry struggled to stay sober
Despite the “pretty horrible” experience, she and Perry remained close friends until her death. However, she admitted that she had to help him stay sober years after he kicked his addictions.
“Even when I was clean and in rehab, I still thought about doing drugs,” he recalled. “He said, ‘Let’s go look for cocaine.’ What do you think about that? Ha, I’m just kidding.’”
At those times, Edwards would redirect his thoughts by taking him out to lunch or keeping him busy.
Matthew Perry was found dead in his hot tub on October 28, 2023. Authorities speculated that he had drowned. An autopsy later revealed that the primary cause of death was “the acute effects of ketamine.”
The star had been receiving ketamine therapy for depression, meaning she was receiving microbuses of the drug under medical supervision. However, the coroner said that her death “could not have been due to that infusion therapy” because her final treatment was more than a week before she died, and the medication has a half-life of approximately three to four hours.
Several other factors contributed to Perry’s death, including the effects of an opioid called buprenorphine, drowning, and coronary artery disease.
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