Matthew Perry’s Sister Recalls Fearing Addiction Would Kill Him

Matthew Perry’s sister, Mia Perry Bowick, says she feared his addiction would kill him after a life-threatening medical emergency in 2018, a period she recalls in Netflix’s three-part documentary The One About Matthew Perry. The series, released October 27, also revisits Perry’s struggles with addiction and his death from the acute effects of ketamine in 2023. Bowick says that after Perry suffered a ruptured colon and became critically ill, she began to think of his addiction as a terminal illness. In the documentary, she recalls being angry and frightened during the crisis, which followed opioid misuse. Perry spent about two weeks in a coma, according to her account, and cried after waking when she explained what had happened. He remained in hospital for months and returned home in poor health, she says. Perry, best known for playing Chandler Bing on Friends, was 54 when he died at his Los Angeles home on October 28, 2023. The Los Angeles County medical examiner identified acute ketamine effects as the primary cause of death and drowning as a contributing factor. The report also listed coronary artery disease and buprenorphine effects as contributing factors; the death was...