Matthew Perry’s mom shares the unsettling final conversation she had with her late son

Matthew Perry’s mom, Suzanne Morrison, is speaking out for the first time about the final moments she spent with her son before his death.

A snippet of the interview with Today’s Savannah Guthrie has since garnered some attention.

“He went through a period, interestingly enough, just before he died when he was showing me one of his new houses,” Morrison told Guthrie. 

“He came up to me and he said, ‘I love you so much, and I’m so happy to be with you now. And I’m so…’ It was almost as though it was a premonition or something.”

In an exclusive interview with TODAY’s @SavannahGuthrie, Matthew Perry’s mom Suzanne Morrison recounted the tender moments she had with her son before his death.

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Morrison continued admitting that she didn’t think much about what was said during their final conversation at the time, but in recalling that conversation now, she admits she didn’t remember the last time she and Perry had a discussion like that.

“I didn’t think about it at the time,” she said, “but I thought, ‘How long has it been since we’ve had a conversation like that?’ It’s been years.”

Morrison believes “there was an inevitability to what was going to happen next to him, and he felt it very strongly.”

Some of the last words Perry ever said to his mom was “I’m not frightened anymore,” she recalled. 

“And it worried me,” Morrison confessed.

The full interview with Morrison and the rest of Perry’s family will premiere on Monday, Oct. 28, the one year anniversary of his death.

Perry died of a ketamine overdose. He was discovered at his home in his hot tub.

According to Deadline, the actor began taking ketamine under the supervision of doctors treating him for depression and anxiety. 

Those doctors, Dr. Mark Chavez and Dr. Salvador Plasencia, alongside Perry’s live-in assistant Kenneth Iwamasa and a woman known as the “Ketamine Queen,” Jazzmen Sangha have all since been arrested in connection to Perry’s death.

Following an investigation and their subsequent arrests, U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada said the five arrested “were part of a ‘broad underground criminal network’ that supplied ketamine to Perry and others. He said the suspects ‘took advantage of Mr. Perry’s addiction issues to enrich themselves.’”

Following the arrests, Perry’s stepfather, Suzanne Morrison’s husband journalist Keith Morrison shared a statement. 

“We were and still are heartbroken by Matthew’s death,” the family noted, “but it has helped to know law enforcement has taken his case very seriously. We look forward to justice taking its course.”