Off The Record
Matthew Perry’s Cause of Death Finally Exposed To The Public
At the age of 54, Perry passed away on October 28th at his home in Los Angeles. After responding to a complaint of a cardiac arrest, authorities discovered Perry unresponsive in his hot tub. At the scene, nobody seemed to have done anything wrong.
According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner, his cause of death was “deferred” after the initial autopsy, which was performed on October 30. Following the request for more investigation into the circumstances surrounding Perry’s death, the results were deemed inconclusive until a toxicology report was received.
Read on to find out what Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s office found…
At the age of 54, Perry passed away on October 28th at his home in Los Angeles. After responding to a complaint of a cardiac arrest, authorities discovered Perry unresponsive in his hot tub. At the scene, nobody seemed to have done anything wrong.
According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner, his cause of death was “deferred” after the initial autopsy, which was performed on October 30.
Following the request for more investigation into the circumstances surrounding Perry’s death, the results were deemed inconclusive until a toxicology report was received.
Perry rose to fame playing the role of the sardonic Chandler Bing, one of the original six characters, on the NBC comedy Friends from 1994 to 2004. on addition to his five Emmy nominations for his roles on Friends, The West Wing, The Ron Clark Story, and Friends: The Reunion, he has starred in films like The Whole Nine Yards, Fools Rush In, and 17 Again.
After publishing Friends, Lovers & The Big Terrible Thing, his memoir in 2022, the actor became a best-selling author.
Despite his public persona as a comedian, Perry had a hidden battle with substance abuse and mental illness.
Perry talked about his nervousness on set during Friends: The Reunion, which aired on Max in April 2021. “I felt like I was gonna die if they didn’t laugh. It’s not healthy for sure, but I would sometimes say a line and they wouldn’t laugh, and I would sweat and go into convulsions,” Perry said. “If I didn’t get the laugh I was supposed to get, I would freak out. I felt like that every single night.”
His Friends co-stars Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, and David Schwimmer stayed close with him and expressed their “utterly devastated by the loss” of their friend in a joint statement. “We were more than just cast mates. We are a family,” the group said to Us Weekly on October 30. “There is so much to say, but right now we’re going to take a moment to grieve and process this unfathomable loss.”
Upon learning of Perry’s untimely demise, Friends co-creators David Crane and Marta Kauffman, as well as executive producer Kevin S. Bright, expressed their profound shock and sadness.
“He was a brilliant talent. It’s a cliche to say that an actor makes a role their own, but in Matthew’s case, there are no truer words. From the day we first heard him embody the role of Chandler Bing, there was no one else for us,” the trio shared in a statement to Us Weekly on October 29. “We will always cherish the joy, the light, the blinding intelligence he brought to every moment — not just to his work, but in life as well. He was always the funniest person in the room. More than that, he was the sweetest, with a giving and selfless heart.”
If Perry was remembered for anything, it would be for assisting others in their hour of need, as he expressed in a letter he wrote just before he passed away.
“I would like to be remembered as somebody who lived well, loved well, was a seeker,” Perry said on the “Q With Tom Power” podcast in 2022. “And his paramount thing is that he wants to help people. That’s what I want.”
He added: “The best thing about me, bar none, is that if somebody comes to me and says, ‘I can’t stop drinking, can you help me?’ I can say ‘yes’ and follow up and do it. When I die, I don’t want Friends to be the first thing that’s mentioned. I want that to be the first thing that’s mentioned. And I’m gonna live the rest of my life proving that.”
That is precisely how Friends guest actor and longtime Perry friend Hank Azaria recalled him in a memorial after his death.
“Matthew and I became really good friends and we were really more like brothers for a long time,” Azaria said in a video shared via Instagram on October 29. “We drank a lot together, we laughed a lot together, we were there for each other in the early days of our career.”
Once Azaria determined to fight her alcoholism, she turned to Perry. “I’m a sober guy for 17 years, and I wanna say that, the night I went into AA [Alcoholics Anonymous], Matthew brought me in,” the actor added. “The whole first year I was sober, we went to meetings together. He was so caring and giving. He totally helped me get sober.”
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Matthew Perry‘s cause of death has been confirmed two months after he passed away.
Perry passed away due to “the acute effects of ketamine,” as reported by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s office.
Other risks that were mentioned in a toxicology report that was disclosed on Friday, December 15, were drowning, coronary artery disease, and the effects of buprenorphine, an opiate painkiller.
The actor’s demise was determined to be accidental.
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