Matthew Perry’s beauty queen friend says star was ‘100 per cent sober’ and seemed ‘extremely positive’ before his death aged 54 as she hits back at speculation star relapsed into addiction

Matthew Perry’s beauty queen girlfriend has said the star was ‘100 per cent’ sober before his tragic death at the age of 54, as she hit back at speculation about his death.

Matthew was found unresponsive in a hot tub at his Pacific Palisades home on Saturday, October 28. He had spoken openly about his decades-long battle with addiction before his death.

Athenna Crosby – who was pictured having lunch with the star the day before his death – spoke out Fox News digital: ‘He was 100 percent sober when he died.

“I mean, I don’t know exactly what he was thinking or feeling. I can only share my experience. And of course he was his own person; maybe on the day he died he had said or done or thought things that I might never know.

‘In the interaction I had with him he was extremely positive, down to earth, behaved normally, spoke very well and did not give me any impression that he was under any form. So I think people are speculating that this was a fallback situation. I just want to defend him and say that wasn’t the case.’

“I was just having lunch with a friend and didn’t think anything about it, didn’t feel like anything was coming,” she said. ‘I didn’t suspect anything. He was completely normal. So I went home later and didn’t think about it until the next day when I heard the news.”

She confirmed that she was not in a relationship with Perry at the time of his death.

“I think a lot of that speculation comes from the fact that people really cared about Matthew, and they really wanted him to find love. And they really wanted him to have a family and have kids because that’s something he came out and said he really wanted,” Crosby said.

“So, you know, people naturally think that could be anyone. And I happen to be the last person seen with him. But we weren’t really involved in that way.’

“The discussion started with him talking about his recovery and his advocacy work and how he really wanted to start a foundation to help people on their road to recovery and generously donate money from his success in the industry to help other people recover.”

‘He also said that the medium of storytelling was the way he wanted to do that. Because he was an actor, he loved being creative, and he loved being in movies and TV shows.”

This comes after Athenna said Perry’s obsession with Batman “wasn’t a cry for help,” says the late actor’s friend, who was one of the last to see him alive.

Athenna has now spoken out about Matthew’s final hours, shutting down speculation that his final social media posts referencing Batman were subliminal messages

‘Matthew was very sweet and a bit nerdy. He loved Batman. He called his car the Batmobile because it was tinted all black and had a matte paint job on it, just like the Batmobile,” Athenna said. TMZ.

“He’s been calling himself Mattman lately, a nickname he gave himself, and he was really goofy and playful.

“I think people are assuming that his posts about the Bat-Signal or calling himself Batman were some sort of subliminal messages asking for help or a cry for help – that’s just completely false.

“He was just a lovable nerd who loved Batman. He talks about his love for Batman in the book. Anyone who speculates that it has anything to do with it is getting carried away.”

Athenna said she spoke out “to testify to Matthew’s character the day before he passed away.”

She said: ‘He was in extremely good spirits, he was excited about the future and he was looking after his health. The fact that he died was a freak accident. There’s nothing strange about it.’

Fans had speculated that Matthew’s fixation on Batman was a cry for help after all seven of his latest social media posts referenced the superhero.

The frequent references to the Batman logo led many fans to believe that it was actually Perry’s own bat-signal, the distress signal used in the fictional Gotham City to call Batman for help.

Fans suggested that the actor’s messages may have been his own call for help.

Matthew regularly signed his posts with ‘I’m Mattman’ – his Batman-inspired nickname.

He wrote the caption: “Don’t worry everyone,” Perry wrote, “I’ll be on the streets tonight.”

In another post he showed the bat signal illuminated in red, with the message: ‘Sleep well everyone. I have the city tonight, Mattman.” It was followed by a photo of a sign that read: ‘BATMAN PLAYS PICKLEBALL.’

Pickleball was the sport Perry would play just hours before his death.

He also posted a video of three red berries and wrote: ‘This is what I had to eat today. I’m Mattman and also a cut pumpkin with hole with Batman logo.

His penultimate message was from the crescent moon in the sky, with the caption: “Do you understand what I’m trying to tell you? – I’m Mattman.’

And in his last public post, he went back to calling himself Mattman as he posed in a pool at night with the crescent moon behind him, with the caption: “Oh, so warm swirling water makes you feel good? I’m Mattman.’

Previously, Perry admitted that he saw himself as Batman: a young, damaged person who turned the loss of his parents into a crime-fighting vigilante with a strong sense of justice to help other people.

He called the superhero a “rich loner,” a description he referenced after appearing in films directed by Christopher Nolan in the mid-2000s.

The investigation into Perry’s death is ongoing, but officials have said there are no indications of foul play.

It is believed he drowned, although no official cause of death has been announced.

First responders on the scene revealed that when Perry was found by his assistant, he was found underwater before they lifted his head in a desperate attempt to give him some air.

By the time the Los Angeles Fire Department arrived at his home in the Pacific Palisades, the actor was already dead, it was later determined.

It comes after a 15-second call emerged showing the moment his assistant called 911 to report a possible cardiac arrest.

Perry had been open about his past struggles with alcohol and substance abuse, but said in recent interviews that he was sober and sober.

Perry wrote in his memoir published last year that he spent $9 million to get sober. He revealed that he had attended 6,000 AA meetings, been to rehab 15 times and been in detox 65 times.

First responders reportedly found antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications in the building, but there were no signs of illegal drugs.

Family friends had also reported that he seemed “fatigued” in the days before his death.