‘Reclusive’ Matthew Perry had young dating app hook-ups deliver OXYCONTIN to his house despite live-in nursing team – and was on drugs while writing his sobriety memoir

Friends star Matthew Perry would score drugs through much younger contacts on dating app Raya, even while under the 24/7 care of a nursing team, sources say.

Perry was found dead in his home's hot tub in October at the age of 54 after overdosing on ketamine.

The actor claimed in his 2022 memoir that he was finally sober, after multiple failed attempts to get clean and at a personal cost of $9 million.

But as I revealed earlier this month, we now know that's not true and that he was “never clean.”

Despite having a 24/7 nursing team at his $6 million home in the Pacific Palisades, and a live-in, sober companion, Perry managed to make informal arrangements that allowed him to smuggle illegal drugs in undetected, sources now explain.

'He met girls on dating apps and had them come over. There was a whole bunch of 21 to 25 year olds he would meet at Raya. They would bring drugs. It was mainly Oxycontin [a powerful opioid pain killer]. He would also get illegal drugs from old girlfriends, there was some kind of network,” said a source.

Perry was found dead in his home's hot tub in October at the age of 54 after overdosing on ketamine.

Despite having a 24/7 nursing team at his $6 million home in the Pacific Palisades, and a live-in, sober companion, Perry managed to make informal arrangements that allowed him to smuggle illegal drugs in undetected, sources say.

“He would hang out with them and it would be, 'Can you bring me something?' He could convince people that it wouldn't do anything wrong. The belief is that he would tell the girls that he needed the drugs to treat his pain. Eventually he would burn them out and move on to the next one.

'If nurses or supervisors are at someone's home, they do not have the same powers as with a [rehab] institution. They cannot search visitors for drugs.'

It is believed that Perry's body was found by his live-in assistant Kenny Iwamasa, who previously worked for his manager Doug Chapin.

Perry's engagement to Molly Hurwitz — a literary talent manager he started dating in 2018 and proposed to in 2020 — collapsed after it emerged he had flirted with 19-year-old Kate Haralson, also on Raya.

Haralson posted embarrassing footage to TikTok of the pair having a video call together in the summer of 2021 and playing “20 Questions” — a game Perry apparently used to play with young girls from dating sites.

Perry is also said to have been intensely lonely, keeping friends at a distance and becoming irritable.

'He was incredibly withdrawn in his later years. Some people are coming forward and claiming that they have seen him a lot, but that is not the case,” the source said. “He didn't want the people he loved to see him, he didn't want them to witness his struggle.”

“Matthew has never been able to maintain any form of long-term sobriety, so everything you've read [his memoir] is wrong: he was not sober and could not maintain it,” they said.

'He had periods where he got everything done and did well, but then came moments of weakness and use. He had demons. He tortured himself.”

Perry's engagement to Molly Hurwitz (pictured) ended after it emerged he had flirted with 19-year-old Kate Haralson, also on Raya.

Pictured: Kate Haralson.

Kate Haralson (pictured left) posted embarrassing footage to TikTok of the pair having a video call together in the summer of 2021 and playing '20 Questions' – a game Perry apparently used to play with young girls from dating sites.

It is believed that Perry's body was found by his live-in assistant Kenny Iwamasa (pictured with Perry), who previously worked for his manager Doug Chapin.

The source added: 'I think along [his memoir]Matthew thought it would help him reach the place he described.

'He wrote about the situation he hoped was already there. He wrote the script he wanted.”

As for the ketamine that killed Perry, sources say he became addicted to the drug after it was prescribed to him for therapeutic use to treat depression.

The coroner's report, released earlier this month, found that the ketamine in Perry's system could not have come from his most recent therapy — and that the amount in his system was comparable to the levels used in hospitals to treat patients to anesthetize.

“Ketamine was given to him as therapy by people trying to help him,” the source said. 'It's really effective for some people, but not for everyone. Matthew wanted to be taken away from the pain of reality and fell in love with its dissociative effects.”

“His memoir is a very valuable story about the true nature of addiction,” the source added. “He was a human being who was desperately trying to get clean, who couldn't get clean, and who faced the terrible future that awaits many addicts.”