2023-12-16 05:45:24
The death of Matthew Perry, star of the series “Friends”, was caused by “the acute effects” of taking ketamine, the Los Angeles County forensic pathology office announced Friday.
However, other factors also contributed to his death, determined to be an “accident”, detailed the same source: “drowning”, “coronary heart disease”, and “effects of buprenorphine”, a drug used to treat opioid addiction. Ketamine is an anesthetic that is sometimes misused for recreational purposes.
65 withdrawal sessions
Aged 54, Matthew Perry was found unconscious on October 28 by his assistant in a jacuzzi at his home in Los Angeles. The man who played “Chandler Bing” in the sitcom “Friends” had been battling his addiction to drugs and alcohol for years. In his memoirs published last year, he confided having undergone 65 withdrawal sessions, spending more than nine million dollars.
He had also undergone several surgeries related to his drug addiction problems, including a seven-hour colon operation in 2018, going so far as to say one day: “I should be dead”. During a television appearance shortly before his death, the actor surprised the audience by admitting to having suffered from severe anxiety “every night” while filming “Friends.”
A true cultural phenomenon, the series broadcast between 1994 and 2004 left its mark on an entire generation of viewers. It tells the adventures of a group of happy friends – Rachel, Monica, Phoebe, Joey, Ross and Chandler – in New York, punctuated by romantic relationships, notably between Monica and Chandler and the endless saga between Rachel and Ross.
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