The police investigation into the death of Matthew Perry is officially closed.
The Friends star was found dead in the hot tub of his LA home on October 28. His death was ruled “accidental” and Los Angeles police confirmed to People magazine that the case is now closed.
Perry’s case with the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner is also now listed as closed, online records show.
His cause of death was listed as the acute effects of ketamine. Contributing factors included drowning, coronary artery disease and the effects of buprenorphine, a prescription drug often used to treat people with opioid addiction.
Police have confirmed they have closed the investigation into the death of Friends star Matthew Perry
In his final post to his Instagram, posted the week he died, the star shared images of him in his hot tub, which is next to his infinity pool.
Coroners revealed that the actor had similar amounts of ketamine in his system as a hospital patient under general anesthesia when he was found.
Perry’s blood ketamine levels were 3,540 ng/ml in peripheral blood and 3,271 ng/ml in central blood.
For a patient under general anesthesia in a hospital, a blood ketamine level of 1,000-6,000 ng/ml would be normal, the medical examiner explained.
‘Drowning is a contributing factor due to the likelihood of him ending up in the pool while becoming unconscious; Coronary artery disease contributes due to exacerbation of ketamine-induced myocardial effects on the heart.
‘The effects of bufrenorphine are listed as contributing even though they are not at toxic levels, due to the additive respiratory effects when present with high levels of ketamine.’
He had no alcohol, cocaine, heroin, meth or fentanyl in his system.
Perry, 54, was found face down in the hot tub by his assistant, stunning the showbiz world and breaking the hearts of fans around the world.
He had been receiving ketamine infusion therapy as a treatment for depression, the medical examiner reported — but the last session was a week and a half before he died, and the ketamine is only in your system for three to four hours, meaning it didn’t happen. lead directly to his death.
Friends star Matthew Perry was killed by ketamine and drowning, with his death ruled an accident. He is pictured on October 22, the last time he was seen in public
Perry was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills during a service attended by his former castmates Jennifer Aniston, Matt LeBlanc, Lisa Kudrow, Courtney Cox and David Schwimmer.
His death came a year after he published a memoir detailing his long-term struggle with addiction, which was ongoing during the filming of Friends.
“At the high concentrations of ketamine found in his post-mortem blood samples, the main lethal effects would be due to both cardiovascular overstimulation and respiratory depression,” concluded the medical examiner, Raffi Djabourian.
In the week before his death, Perry shared a creepy Instagram post showing him relaxing in the hot tub at his home, where he would later be found. He was last seen in public on October 22.
His death came just a year after he wrote a tell-all memoir detailing his struggles with addiction.
Perry wrote that he spent $9 million to get sober, attended 6,000 AA meetings, went to rehab 15 times and was in detox 65 times.
At his lowest point, he was taking 55 Vicodin a day to fuel his addiction.
He said he overcame addiction in 2021 and lived a healthier lifestyle with the help of “sober companion” Morgan Moses, referred to in the memoir by the pseudonym “Erin.”
He was buried in an intimate ceremony at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills, attended by his Friends co-stars Jennifer Aniston, Matt LeBlanc, Lisa Kudrow, Courtney Cox and David Schwimmer.