The stepfather of actor Matthew Perry, Keith Morrisonrecounted this Monday in an interview with People the “painful” process for the family of dealing with the investigation into the death from the star of the series ‘Friends’.
Although Perry’s stepfather, 77 years“cannot say anything” about the investigation, believes that the fact that the American interpreter was a well-known public figure has played an important role in the charges brought against the five defendants in the case of his death.
“I can only say that I suspect it, that the authorities and the agencies came together to investigate and bring charges against these people because Matthew is so famous or well-known that it would be known,” Morrison said.
“People would find out about this investigation, they would know the charges, and it would be made public and serve as a warning to anyone who was in a position to facilitate the process: you had better not do it, because the price, if you do, could be very high.” high,” he added.
addiction problems
- Talking about drug addiction problems actorMorrison said that “somehow (Perry) believed that that particular drug he was taking was not addictive, that it wouldn’t kill him. And of course it did.”
Perry “had come close to dying” many times, he said.
“I can’t tell you how many, but there were several times when the doctor came to us and said, ‘He’s not going to survive the night, he’s not going to survive the week.’ Or, ‘He’s close to dying, prepare for that possibility.’ “he stated.
“For years we had to put ourselves back together, again and again, in the face of the possibility that he would die. And only the heroic efforts of the doctors kept him alive a couple of times, for which we will be eternally grateful,” he said.
- The publication of the interview coincides with the first anniversary of the sudden death of the actorwho was found dead in his home in Los Angeles at the age of 54.
The cause of your death were the acute effects of ketamine, as revealed by the autopsy last December.
In mid-August, authorities arrested five people, including his assistant, accused of belonging to a clandestine criminal network responsible for distributing large quantities of ketamine, a substance that was found in the interpreter’s body at the time of his arrest. death.
Investigation
Authorities claim that Perry obtained the ketamine that ended his life from Jasveen Sangha, known as ‘the queen of Ketamine’; that the syringe was provided by doctor Salvador Plasencia and that it was his personal assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa, who injected the drug into the actor the day of his death on October 28, 2023.
The Prosecutor’s Office maintains that Perry was a “victim” of a ketamine distribution network and added that the defendants took advantage of Perry’s “addiction problems” to profit from him and “enrich themselves.”
The interpreter, celebrated for his character Chandler Bing, had spoken about how hard it was for him to deal with addictions in his memoir ‘Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir’ (2022).
