(ANSA) – NEW YORK, DECEMBER 17 – In the weeks before his death, Matthew Perry was regularly injected with testosterone, which left him irritable, “full of anger and malice,” according to an employee quoted by the New York Post. The 19 pages of the coroner's report published last Friday discuss male hormone injections.
Perry was found dead in the hot tub of his Los Angeles mansion on October 28th. The medical examiner listed the cause of death as the ingestion of various medications, most notably ketamine, a sedative used to treat depression and addictions. The former Chandler from “Friends” was regularly infused with ketamine, although the autopsy found that the amount of the drug that Matthew had in his body at the time of his death could not have corresponded to the amount of the last treatment: the actor had it He probably took the pill version of the drug shortly before his death because traces of ketamine powder were found in his stomach.
The collaborator ruled out that Perry had suicidal impulses. The “Friends” actor even asked doctors to gradually wean him off ketamine and buprenorphine, another anti-addiction drug, after recently celebrating 19 months without drug use.
On the other hand, it is not clear why the actor had testosterone injected: one theory is that it was to counteract the effects of an estrogen-based drug he was taking to lose weight. All of these drugs were found in Perry's home in his assistant's room in half-empty bottles next to over-the-counter medications. (HANDLING).
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