Matthew Perry said ketamine was ‘like being hit with happy shovel’ but had eerie concern

Matthew Perry described taking ketamine“like being hit in the head with a giant happy shovel”.

The Friends star was was found dead in a hot tub in the garden of his £4million Hollywood mansion on October 28. An autopsy report has revealed the cause of the actor’s premature death, and suggested his passing was probably inevitable after years of battling with addiction.

According the to the official document, the 54-year-old died of an acute overdose of ketamine, despite claiming to have been clean for 19 months. The 29-page report also credited his death to drowning, coronary artery disease and buprenorphine effects (used to treat opioid dependency), cardiovascular overstimulation and respiratory depression.

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However, in his recent autobiography, Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing., Perry had written a negative, detailed account of undergoing infusion treatment.

Perry writes about travelling to a rehabilitation facility in Switzerland during the pandemic for a series of ketamine courses to help with his long-standing and unshakeable depression.

He described the sessions as “like being hit in the head with a giant happy shovel”.

“They’d bring me into a room, sit me down, put headphones on me so I could listen to music, blindfold me, and put an IV in,” Perry wrote.

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He continued: “As the music played and the K ran through me, it all became about the ego, and the death of the ego. And I often thought that I was dying during that hour. Oh, I thought, this is what happens when you die.”

However he said the the downside was the comedown.

He admitted: “The hangover was rough and outweighed the shovel ketamine was not for me.”

Shortly after his death, his close pals including his former co-star Jennifer Aniston insisted he was “doing great” in the weeks leading up to his passing.

However, his long term close friend George Clooney said that despite Perry fulfilling his dream of being on a sitcom, his role “didn’t bring him joy or happiness or peace.”

At the time of being in the role, Clooney was unaware of the extent of Perry’s addiction struggles.

“We just knew that he wasn’t happy and I had no idea he was doing what, 12 Vicodin a day and all the stuff he talked about (in his memoir), all that heartbreaking stuff,” Clooney said.

Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk