Matthew Perry autopsy report revealed a grimmer look at the star’s final days.The report, obtained by Page Six on Friday, revealed that a female friend of the actor said he was “angry and mean” in the weeks before his death because he had been taking testosterone shots.
The eye-opening report noted that aside from a lethal amount of ketamine mixed with the opioid-like drug buprenorphine, which is used to alleviate pain and help with addiction to opioids, Perry had been taking Tammoxifen to lose weight, antidiabetic medication and nicotine lollipops.
Before his death, he was trying to quit smoking. His live-in assistant said he had been smoking about two packs of cigarettes per day. Matthew Perry autopsy
The medical examiner’s report further exemplified how heavily Perry relied on prescribed and over-the-counter medication to maintain his quality of life.
“In the assistant’s bedroom, there were multiple open, empty, half-filled medication bottles prescribed to the decedent, as well as over-the-counter medications, vitamins, digestive aids and dishes filled with multiple various loose pills, tablets, caplets, candy and breath mints,” the report read.
In Perry’s bathroom, an array of “prescribed ointments, digestive aids, and oral rinses” were present.
The late “Friends” star had been undergoing regular ketamine infusions before his passing. However, the report specified that the ketamine detected in his body originated from a different source.
His final ketamine infusion took place approximately a week and a half prior to his death, with a relatively short half-life of only three to four hours.