Matthew Perry’s mother reacts to criminal charges over his death and talks about ‘Friends’ star’s final days

Matthew Perry’s family remembers the deceased Friends star and looking to the future criminal trial for two of the people charged in connection with his death.

In an interview broadcast by Today show on Monday, One year since Perry’s death at the age of 54. from acute effects of ketaminePerry’s mother, Suzanne Morrison, his stepfather Deadline Correspondent Keith Morrison and three of his sisters, Caitlin, Emily and Madeline Morrison, recalled Perry’s final days and what they will remember about their late relative.

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Suzanne recalled feeling, shortly before Perry died, that “what was going to happen at his side was inevitable, and he felt it very strongly.”

“He went through a period, interestingly enough, right before he died when he was showing me one of his new houses,” he said in the interview 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 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 her death, Perry told her mother, “I’m not afraid anymore,” she recalled, adding that it “worried” her.

perry was found dead in the jacuzzi of his home in Los Angeles and the actor, who had He spoke at length about his struggle with addiction over the years.A year earlier, in connection with the publication of his memoirs, he had said that he was sober and seemed committed to staying clean.

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

But in Monday’s interview with TodayKeith pondered 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 like he was to us,” while Suzanne shook her head.

“Not you?” he said. “It certainly seemed that way to me.”

Keith continued: “Although he had been treated with ketamine, it hadn’t become anything he couldn’t control. Although he was a decision-making guy: ‘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 drug will do to me.’ Then that concern arose: what is he really doing?

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

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

Three of them have reached plea deals and are cooperating with prosecutors, while two of the defendants, Dr. Salvador Plasencia and an alleged trafficker Jasveen Sangha, known as the “Queen of Ketamine,” are will be tested in early 2025.

Suzanne said she was “delighted” with the charges and Keith hopes the legal action will have an impact.

“What I hope, and I think the agencies that got involved in this hope, is that the people who have gotten into the business of supplying people with drugs that will kill them are now on notice,” he said. . “It doesn’t matter what your professional credentials are. You’re sinking, baby.

Keith also hopes Perry’s experience serves as a lesson.

“What he taught the world is that no amount of money will cure an addict. “It needs something more,” 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, founded in the wake of the actor’s death in his native country, which is independent of the Matthew Perry Foundation of the USA but both organizations have similar intentions.

Perry wrote in his memoirs and spoke in the last years of his life about his efforts to help other addicts and how he hoped that was how he would be remembered.

“He made it the great goal of his life to help other people, to encourage them to say, ‘I need help.’ He tried to make people see that this was a brave thing to do,” said Caitlin, executive director of the Matthew Perry Foundation of Canada.

And Suzanne is making peace with her own limits when it comes to helping her son.

“I am a very lucky woman. But there was a technical problem, there was a problem that I couldn’t… I couldn’t solve. “I couldn’t help him,” he said.

And he added, speaking of his support for the foundation: “The only 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 son or your husband or your wife is going through. And you have to stop, because it destroys you.”

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

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

“Every time I’m there, there will be people who come to see it, even now. “Usually that goes away,” he said. “They leave him really nice letters. Like, ‘I felt so sad.’ You helped me get through my adolescence.’”

“Maybe I’ll post them at some point, so people can see them,” he said of the notes. “But they really loved him, because they could relate to him.”

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