Matthew Perry’s mother reminisced a heartfelt moment she experienced with her son shortly before he passed away a year ago, which she now thinks was a “premonition” about his impending death.
“Just before he died, he was showing me one of his new houses,” Morrison said. “He came up to me and said, ‘I love you so much and I’m so happy to be with you now.’”
“It was almost as though it was a premonition or something,” she added. “I didn’t think about it at the time but I thought: How long has it been since we’ve had a conversation like that? It’s been years.”
“I think there was something ... there was an inevitability to what was gonna happen next to him, and he felt it very strongly,” she said in the interview.
“But he said, ‘I’m not frightened any more’—and it worried me.”
Perry gained international fame with is role as Chandler Bing on the NBC hit series "Friends," which ran from 1994 to 2004. Despite his success, he struggled with addiction all through his life; In his memoirs, he said he became addicted to alcohol at the age of 14, and later to opioid painkillers following a jet ski accident.
Fate struck on Oct. 28, 2023, when the beloved actor was found unresponsive in a hot tub at his home in Los Angeles—he would never regain consciousness. The coroner’s report determined the 54-year-old died from a ketamine overdose.
Perry was outspoken about his personal struggles with addiction, and even lobbied Congress on behalf of the National Association of Drug Court Professionals.
“He had this ability to fill up a room with light,” she said. “When people were in a room with [Matthew], there was this magnetic energy. Everybody just had a smile on their face, and they clung to everything that he said.”
Caitlin also commented on her role of executive director for the foundation.
“It kind of feels like I'm sitting right next to Matthew, working with him every day on something that was important to him,” she said.