Matthew Perry ‘went to Ozzy Osbourne’s home for AA meetings’ before death
Ozzy's posthumous book is out.
In his posthumous memoir Last Rites, Ozzy Osbourne reveals that Friends actor Matthew Perry attended AA meetings at his home.
The Black Sabbath rocker, who died on July 22 aged 76, revealed that the actor tried his very best to get clean before he died of an accidental ketamine overdose in his hot tub in October 2023, for which five people were charged.
Osbourne wrote about Perry in the new book, per Us Magazine: ‘He used to come to our house for AA meetings, or so my wife tells me. The funniest, most talented bloke. And he was trying so hard to stay on the right path.”
He continued: ‘Then one day he listened to his addiction telling him it was OK to get loaded, and that was it — game over. I felt so sad when they said he’d been found in his hot tub, unresponsive, with ketamine in his system. He’d given everything he had to stay clean. But it wasn’t enough.’
Perry spent many years being a vocal advocate for sobriety, having been notoriously open about his own addiction struggles.
In 2018 he was hospitalised after his colon burst from opioid misuse.
Ozzy once credited Sharon Osbourne to saving his life. He died in July this year (Picture: Greg Doherty/Getty Images)To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video
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Previous Page Next Page‘The doctors told my family that I had a two percent chance to live,’ the star told People Magazine in 2022.
‘I was put on a thing called an ECMO machine, which does all the breathing for your heart and your lungs. And that’s called a Hail Mary. No one survives that.’
In his 2022 memoir Friends, Lovers, & the Big Terrible Thing, he wrote of the drug that killed him, as per Entertainment Tonight: ‘Taking K is like being hit in the head with a giant happy shovel. But the hangover was rough. Ketamine was not for me.’
Ozzy famously struggled with various addictions over his lifetime.
In the memoir, he also described 2012 as the year he last ‘fell off the wagon’ after wife Sharon Osbourne ‘busted’ him.
Matthew Perry died from an accidental drug overdose in October 2023 (Picture: David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images)Ozzy explained how the X Factor star, who recently thanked her followers for their kindness in the wake of her husband’s death, sold cars bought by the frontman during his last bender.
The Paranoid hitmaker then attended 90 meetings in 90 days at the AA Log Cabin in West Hollywood.
‘It helped me, all that AA stuff,’ he recalled. ‘Got me started on the way back to being sober. If you’re on your own, the voice in your head is too persuasive.’
However, Ozzy’s health struggles – including a Parkinson’s diagnosis in 2020; issues stemming from his quad bike crash as well as a fall in 2019 which led to multiple surgeries – saw him take up some substances again to deal with the pain over the year before his death.
Ozzy’s posthumous memoir Last Rites was released today (Picture: Scott Dudelson/Getty Images)
