EXCLUSIVE'Reclusive' Matthew Perry had young dating app hook-ups deliver OXYCONTIN to his house despite live-in nursing team - and was on drugs while writing his sobriety memoir
- Girls from dating app Raya would sneak Friends star illicit drugs even though he had 24/7 nursing team and live-in sober companion, sources say
- He was 'incredibly reclusive' in his final years and became irritable
- Contrary to claims in his 2022 memoir, he was 'never clean'
Friends star Matthew Perry would score drugs from much younger hook-ups on the dating app Raya even while he was under the 24/7 care of a nursing team, sources say.
Perry was found dead aged 54 in the hot tub of his home in October after overdosing on ketamine.
The actor claimed in his 2022 memoir that he was finally sober, after multiple failed attempts to get clean and at a personal cost of $9 million.
But, as I revealed earlier this month, we now know that not to be true and that he was 'never clean'.
Despite having a 24/7 nursing team at his $6 million Pacific Palisades home, as well as a live-in sober companion, Perry managed to have casual hook-ups sneak him illicit drugs without detection, sources now explain.
'He would meet girls on dating apps and have them come over. There was a slew of 21 to 25-year-olds that he would meet on Raya. They would bring drugs with them. It was mostly Oxycontin [a powerful opioid pain killer]. He would also get illicit drugs from old girlfriends, there was a kind of network,' a source said.
Friends star Matthew Perry would score drugs from much younger hook-ups on the dating app Raya even while he was under the 24/7 care of a nursing team, sources say.
Perry was found dead aged 54 in the hot tub of his home in October after overdosing on ketamine.
Despite having a 24/7 nursing team at his $6 million Pacific Palisades home, as well as a live-in sober companion, Perry managed to have casual hook-ups sneak him illicit drugs without detection, sources say.
'He would hang out with them and then it would be: "Can you bring me something?" He could persuade people that it would not be doing anything wrong. The belief is that he would tell the girls he needed the drugs to treat his pain. In the end he would burn them out and move on to the next one.
'When nurses or companions are in someone's home, they do not have the same permissions as in a [rehab] institution. They cannot frisk visitors for drugs.'
It is thought likely that Perry's body was found by his live-in assistant Kenny Iwamasa, who previously worked for his manager Doug Chapin.
Perry's engagement to Molly Hurwitz — a literary talent manager who he started dating in 2018 and proposed to in 2020 — collapsed after it emerged he had been flirting with 19-year-old Kate Haralson, also on Raya.
Haralson posted embarrassing footage to TikTok of the pair enjoying a video call together in the summer of 2021 and playing '20 Questions' — a game Perry apparently played habitually with young girls from dating sites.
Perry is also said to have been intensely lonely, keeping friends at arms length and becoming irritable.
'He was incredibly reclusive in his later years. Some people are coming forward and making out that they saw him a lot but that is not the case,' a source said. 'He did not want the people he loved to see him, he did not want them to witness his struggles.'
'Matthew was never able to maintain any type of long term sobriety so everything that you have read in [his memoir] is wrong — he was not sober and was not able to maintain it,' they said.
'He would have bouts of getting it together and being okay, but then they would be followed by moments of weakness and of using. He had demons. He tortured himself.'
Perry's engagement to Molly Hurwitz (pictured) collapsed after it emerged he had been flirting with 19-year-old Kate Haralson, also on Raya.
Pictured: Kate Haralson.
Kate Haralson (pictured left) posted embarrassing footage to TikTok of the pair enjoying a video call together in the summer of 2021 and playing '20 Questions' - a game Perry apparently played habitually with young girls from dating sites.
It is thought likely that Perry's body was found by his live-in assistant Kenny Iwamasa (pictured with Perry), who previously worked for his manager Doug Chapin.
The source added: 'I think with [his memoir], Matthew thought it would help him to get to the place that he was describing.
'He was writing about what he was hoping to be the situation as if he was already there. He was writing the script that he wanted.'
As for the ketamine that killed Perry, sources say he become hooked on the drug after being prescribed it for therapeutic use to treat depression.
The coroner's report, released earlier this month, found that the ketamine in Perry's system could not have been from his most recent therapy — and that the amount in his system was similar to levels used in hospital to anesthetize patients.
'Ketamine was given to him as a therapy by people trying to help him,' a source said. 'It is really effective for some people but not for everybody. Matthew wanted to be taken away from the pain of reality and fell in love with its dissociative effects.'
'His memoir is a really valuable story about the true nature of addiction,' the source added. 'He was a human being who was desperately trying to get clean, who could not get clean, and met the horrible future that comes to many addicts.'
