Aug 16, 2024 · “Friends” actor Matthew Perry was experiencing an out-of-control ketamine addiction, injecting the drug six to eight times a day before his accidental overdose death, …

Matthew Perry was open about his lifelong struggle with addiction. In interviews and in his 2022 memoir, he described years of fighting dependency on alcohol and prescription drugs.

Oct 28, 2024 · Perry had been candid about his decades-long struggle with addiction. Matthew Perry’s died at age 54 from a fatal ketamine overdose. The "Friends" star had been …

Dec 3, 2025 · Perry, 54, was found dead at his Los Angeles home in 2023 after years of struggling with depression and addiction. The actor's family asked the judge for a lengthy …

Feb 6, 2025 · During the height of his career on “Friends,” Perry said that he was battling severe addiction to alcohol and opioids, specifically Vicodin, which he was given to help treat pain …

Aug 26, 2024 · Experts say Perry’s history of addiction helped lead him to quickly become hooked on the drug. The federal investigation found that over a nearly two-month span before his …

Oct 31, 2023 · To hear Perry’s story is to be astonished not merely by the stubbornness of his addiction but the resilience of his body: His colon exploded in 2018 from too many opiates, …

Jul 23, 2025 · A doctor pleaded guilty Wednesday to giving Friends star Matthew Perry ketamine in the weeks before his 2023 overdose death.

Nov 19, 2023 · Perry first became addicted to drugs after a jet ski accident in 1997. He was severely injured and was prescribed Vicodin. His use of Vicodin as a painkiller quickly turned …

Dec 4, 2025 · Salvador Plasencia, the doctor who supplied Matthew Perry with ketamine, was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison on December 3 in connection with the late actor’s …