Matthew Perry’s Mother Recalls Ominous Conversation With Actor Before His Death: ‘It Worried Me’

Three days before the anniversary of Matthew Perry’s October 28, 2023, death, the actor’s mother, in a new interview, recalled an ominous conversation she had with her son soon before his death at the age of 54.

In an excerpt from the Today show’s interview with Perry’s family, his mother Suzanne Morrison talked about her foreboding feeling after speaking to the actor days before his death.

“He went through a period, interestingly enough just before he died, when he was showing me one of his new houses,” Morrison told Today’s Savannah Guthrie. “He came up to me, and he 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. 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.’”

Morrison continued, “I think there was something. There was an inevitability to what was going to happen next to him, and he felt it very strongly. But he said, ‘I’m not frightened anymore.’ And it worried me.”

The family’s full interview with Today show will air next week.

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Perry died at his Los Angeles home in October 2023 from “the acute effects of ketamine,” an autopsy later revealed. In the aftermath of his death, multiple people — including two doctors, Perry’s live-in assistant, a TV producer, and a woman dubbed Los Angeles’ “Ketamine Queen” — were arrested and charged in connection with the Friends actor’s death.

One of those people, Dr. Mark Chavez, has already pleaded guilty and has agreed to cooperate with investigators as they prepare for a March 2025 trial against “lead defendants” Dr. Salvador Plasencia and the alleged “Ketamine Queen” Jasveen Sangha; Perry’s assistant Kenneth Iwamasa and former TV producer Erik Fleming also previously pleaded guilty to charges and await sentencing.