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Matthew Perry's Tragic Final Secret: How Regret Over Splitting From the Girlfriend He Included in His Will 'Sent Him Spiraling Into Fatal Drug Addiction'
By Marissa Papanek,
14 days ago
Matthew Perry was haunted by regret over losing 'the love of his life', Rachel Dunn, according to an ex. MEGA
Matthew Perry was haunted by regret over lost love until the day he overdosed on the ketamine he was using to numb his pain, according to one of his former flames.
RadarOnline.com can reveal the late actor supposedly never stopped pining after his ex-girlfriend Rachel Dunn , who he viewed as "the love of his life" and even included in his will.
The pair dated for two years before breaking up in 2005 as Perry finally faced his severe opioid addiction . In his memoir, the Friends star called Dunn, who was 14 years his junior, "the ex-girlfriend of his dream(s)".
Perry and Dunn dated from 2003 to 2005. MEGA
Katyi Edwards — who dated Perry in 2006 and worked as his assistant in 2001 — opened up about the actor's major love life "regret" in the wake of the criminal charges filed over his death.
Perry was profoundly impacted by his split from Dunn, and the heartbreak contributed to his addiction struggles, Edwards told The Mirror US .
She said Perry, who was abusing prescription pills like Vicodin, "was not doing drugs when he was with (Dunn)."
Edwards claimed Dunn "was the love of his life," adding: "If you look back at Matthew, you know, he was happy, content".
She explained: "I think she kept him grounded. But it seems like after he broke up with her, that’s when I noticed the, you know, addiction in full-gear.
"Afterwards, he lived with a lot of regret. Their love was very simple...and she loved him before he was huge and he just spiraled afterwards."
Edwards went on: "And they say everybody has a kind of trigger or turning point in their addiction where you just didn't care anymore? And I'm pretty sure that breakup kind of started it.
"I think that he regrets not marrying her...I know that he wanted kids, and I think that he struggled with time flying by. He hadn't tackled some milestones that he wanted to."
In his memoir, Perry called Dunn 'the ex-girlfriend of his dream(s)'. MEGA
Perry "had relationships after (Dunn)", Edwards said, "but never did show off his girlfriends like he did her."
She added: “He loved her so much...she was his one and only girl. I don't know what happened and why they broke up, but I know that he was the happiest with her."
Dunn reportedly met Perry while studying fashion and has kept a low profile since splitting from the actor.
The sitcom star said in a 2004 interview: "With Rachel in my life, I know that I can be very committed and not some selfish guy who just wants to hang out with friends.
"I want to spend time with my girlfriend and explore what it means to have a much closer relationship than I've previously had time for."
The actor's ketamine addiction spiraled out of control in the weeks leading up to his death. MEGA
Exactly a year before his death, Perry told Diane Sawyer he was taking as many as 55 pills a day at the height of his opioid addiction. The tell-all interview came after the actor announced on his book tour that he was celebrating 18 months of sobriety.
He turned to ketamine therapy to treat his depression, but the habit quickly spiraled out of control in the weeks leading up to his overdose as he began buying the drug illegally . Perry's autopsy report said the amount of ketamine in his system when he died was equivalent to a surgical dose of anesthesia.
I don’t know why he or the doctors would give him any kind of therapy that there was chances of getting hooked to it. First, thing I tell doctors, dentist, or psychiatrist. I’m an alcoholic. I’m scared to death of pain but I don’t want to get hooked on anything. I won’t take pain meds that are addictive unless the pain cant be stopped by other means. I’ve suffered from depression from child hood. Thank God for medication but even with it they have to adjust it. Or change it. But there’s no way I’d do ketamine therapy unless I tried all the different avenues first. Anything addictive is just the last resort for me .
Beth Kissel
12d ago
He had a severely co-dependent addictive personality and switched back and forth from women to alcohol to drugs which appears to be which ultimately killed him.
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