Matthew Perry was ‘100 percent sober’ before death, says friend
nypost.comopen about his lifelong struggle with addiction and staying sober, and wrote about his journey and his health issues in his 2022 memoir, “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing.” His death did not appear to be drug related, as he died of an apparent drowning in a hot tub at his home in the ritzy Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles.Law enforcement sources told TMZ that investigators ran a less-in-depth test on the actor that revealed he did not have fentanyl or meth in his system at the time of his death.More in-depth tests are currently being conducted as part of the toxicology.
It can take months to establish an official cause of death, which is still “deferred.” Amid speculation about the cause, model and entertainment reporter Athenna Crosby, 25, the “mystery woman” last seen with him just 24 hours before his death, is speaking out. “I am so devastated from his death but felt it was in poor taste to talk about it publicly as the attention should not be on me but rather on him and his legacy and he was an extremely private person and I always respected that in our friendship,” Crosby wrote Wednesday on her Instagram Story.“But indeed, we were friends and I was one of the last people to speak to him and see him before he passed.”Crosby, who is Venezuelan, told TMZ that she’d met Perry through mutual friends, and that their lunch date right before his death was not romantic.
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