Matthew Perry's ex gives details on how he coaxed people to supply his drugs

08 March 2024 , 23:29

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Matthew Perry died due to the acute effects of ketamine

Matthew Perry's former girlfriend, Kayti Edwards, revealed the actor's old techniques to get drugs to The Mirror.

The Friends actor had fought addiction and mental health problems for a long time and eventually succumbed to the "acute effects" of ketamine. Matthew, 54, was found dead in his hot tub. The responders who came to help said he was gone when they got there. They ruled out foul player right away, but tests later showed drugs played a part in his death.

Matthew was trying a new kind of treatment for sadness called ketamine infusion therapy. Ketamine doesn't stay in your body very long, just a few hours, and Matthew hadn't had a treatment for over a week.

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Matthew Perry's ex revealed how he would get his drugs (AFP via Getty Images)

Kayti thinks he must have gotten more ketamine from somewhere else. Even though the police stopped looking into it, she wants them to start again. She knows from being with him that he could get drugs like Vicodin in different ways. In fact, she claimed that at one point he was taking 40 to 50 Vicodin a day and would get it from a nurse delivering it directly to his home.

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"He had a way of enabling people to do things for him, saying ‘I’ll give you this amount of money if you keep your mouth shut and get me this,'" she told The Mirror exclusively.

Kayti says she herself was roped into securing his drugs when she dated him in 2006, and later worked as his assistant, in 2011. "He made it so hard to say no. He was like 'Kayti, can you run down and pick up this envelope for me, I’ll give you $5,000.' It was hard to say no to that," she shared.

She claims that Matthew would get his supply from medical staff (AFP via Getty Images)

"It’s why I want people to investigate medical staff to see if he had a deal with any of them to give him some ketamine on the side.” Kayti worked as Matthew’s assistant at the height of his drug addiction and saw the fall-out firsthand.

"Matthew wasn’t a casual partier and when he was in his addiction, it was very scary," she says. "He was just like a vacuum cleaner of anything you could get his hands on which is very dangerous. But with a person in active addiction, you can’t really tell them to stop or make them stop. You know, you can just kind of be there for them."

Tom Bryant