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The death of Matthew Perry still leaves many people unsettled! The actor died on October 28th at the age of 54 – he drowned in his hot tub. Some speculated that a possible relapse into drug addiction was the reason for the Friends star’s sudden death. The official cause of death is now known: he died from the “acute effects of ketamine”. Wrote about this drug and its traumatic effects Matthew already in his book!
In his autobiography “Friends, Lovers an the Big Terrible Thing,” published last November, the “17 Again” actor recounted his first experience with the anesthetic. During his rehabilitation stay in Switzerland, the drug was used as part of an infusion therapy “to relieve pain and treat depression”. Matthew wrote that during the infusion he “often thought that [er] He realized that “ketamine wasn’t for me” based on its painful effects.
His good friend Jennifer Aniston (54) said in an interview with Variety that Matthew seemed “healthy” and “happy” before his death. “I texted him that morning, funny Matty. He wasn’t in pain. He wasn’t fighting. He was happy,” his “Friends” colleague recalled.
![Matthew Perry in May 2006](https://content1.promiflash.de/article-images/video_480/matthew-perry-schaut-ernst-6-r2.jpg)
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