Matthew Perry’s former girlfriend Kayti Edwards opening up about their split, revealing she left the ‘Friends’ star because she “couldn’t watch him die”, and has now shared the haunting three-word text she’d often send him.
Following a string of arrests linked to his tragic death, Perry’s ex-lover and one-time assistant Kayti, aged 47, has opening up about her time with the troubled actor.
In an exclusive interview with The Mirror US, Kayti laid bare the daily battles Matthew faced with addiction, which she saw escalate to terrifying levels. Despite their close connection, she confessed that eventually, she couldn’t bear to stay in a working or romantic relationship with him.
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“Matthew paid me very well as his assistant but there came a point for me that he got so bad that I had no choice but to walk away from that salary,” she said. “But I knew that I could not watch him die. I would never, ever be able to live with myself.”
Kayti added: “There were so many sleepless nights that I would go home and I would wake up at four in the morning texting him, ‘Are you alive? Are you alive? Just answer. Send me an emoji. Send me something that you are there.’ I couldn’t sleep at night knowing what he was doing. And I think part of me stayed as long as I did, because if I didn’t stay, he would have been alone, and he would have just kept going.”
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She ultimately succeeded in getting him into a rehabilitation facility in January 2011, sharing: “I said, ‘I’m not doing this anymore, Matthew, I am sorry you were going to hate me, but we are getting you in a rehab.'”.
Tragedy struck when the Friends actor was discovered face down in his hot tub at the age of 54 on October 28. A coroner’s report later determined Perry passed away due to the “acute effects of ketamine,” which he had been battling addiction to for some time.
In the wake of Perrys passing, four individuals, including Perry’s live-in assistant and a woman referred to as “the ketamine queen”, faced charges after an investigation. Yet Kayti, the step-granddaughter of famed British actress Julie Andrews, spoke candidly about how Perry’s tragic fate had deep roots, stretching back years and involving various drugs.
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“Ketamine was his new thing, but it all started with unscrupulous doctors oversubscribing prescription pills like Vicodin,” she reveals. “When the charges dropped, I knew they would be doctors…..because that was what he always did. I was not surprised. His addictive brain would think, ‘well, it was prescribed from a doctor so I can take it.’ In his head, it wasn’t like he was out on the street, scoring drugs.”
She recalls her astonishment at the staggering amount of narcotics he was taking while she was employed by him. “I used to say to him ‘how is it possible for someone to even get 50 to 60 Vicodin a day’ and he told me ‘I have an in with the doctors.’ That was back in 2011 and continued up until his death,” she recounts.
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