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Matthew Perry’s family addresses the arrests on the anniversary of his death
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Matthew Perry’s family addresses the arrests on the anniversary of his death

Matthew PerryHis family is remembering his legacy on the one-year anniversary of his death, sharing they hope for justice after five people were charged in connection with his fatal drug overdose.

Perry’s mother Suzanne Morrison, in a joint interview with husband Keith Morrison and her three daughters Caitlin, Emily and Madeline, said she was “delighted” by the allegations in a chat with Today which aired on Monday to mark the anniversary Perry dies on October 28 of last year. He was 54 years old.

Perry’s stepfather Keith Morrisona broadcast journalist known for his correspondent work at Dateline NBChe even had a message for the accused: “You’re leaving, baby.”

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“What I’m hoping, and I think the agencies that have been involved in this are hoping, is that the people who have gone into the business of providing people with drugs that are going to kill them — they’re now in the know,” Keith said. Morrison “It doesn’t matter what your professional credentials are. You’re leaving, baby.”

Two doctors, Perry’s assistant and an alleged San Fernando Valley drug dealer known as the “Ketamine Queen” of North Hollywood were among those charged in August with distributing ketamine TO friendship actor in the last weeks of his life.

“These defendants were more interested in profiting from Mr. Perry than looking out for his well-being,” U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada said at the time. “Drug dealers who sell dangerous substances are gambling with the lives of others because of greed. This case, along with many other prosecutions of drug dealers who cause death, sends a clear message that we will hold drug dealers accountable for the deaths they cause.”

Matthew Perry.

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Perry’s family has since launched The Matthew Perry Foundation of Canada (the late actor was American-Canadian), established to help others struggling with addiction.

“He made it a major goal in his life to help others, to encourage others to say, ‘I need help.’ He tried to make people see that it was a brave thing to do,” Perry’s sister Caitlin Morrison, who is the foundation’s executive director, told Today. Helping others gave her a “sense of purpose,” she added.

“When someone came and asked him for help, he would drop everything and do it,” added Perry’s other sister, Emily Morrison. “No matter where he was in life.”

The late actor wrote candidly about his struggles with addiction in his 2022 memoir Friends, lovers and the big terrible thingnoting in one passage: “When I die, as far as my so-called achievements are concerned, it would be well if friendship they were listed far behind the things I did to try to help others.”

Watch the full Morrison family interview above.