‘Lonely in His Soul’: Matthew Perry’s Family Opens Up About Late Actor’s State of Mind

“Friends” actor Matthew Perry struggled with loneliness and sadness before passing away from a ketamine overdose on Oct. 28, 2023, his family says. On an Oct. 28 interview with the “Today” show marking the first anniversary of Perry’s death, his mother, Suzanne Morrison, said that despite having a bright spirit, the actor was “very lonely in his soul.” Perry’s step-father, Keith Morrison, added that beneath Perry’s outgoing personality, there was a deeper, unseen side to him. “The sort of exterior that people know about hid an insecure and often very sad guy,” Keith Morrison said.  Perry opened up about his decades-long struggles with drug addiction and alcoholism in his 2022 memoir, “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing.”...