Matthew Perry's mother remembers their last conversation

Matthew Perry's heartbroken mother has recalled one of their final conversations on the first anniversary of the Friends star's ketamine overdose death. 

Suzanne Morrison revealed that they had their first heart-to-heart in a long time just before he passed away at the age of 54 in his Los Angeles home October 28, 2023. 

Perry was an avid real estate collector, and his mother revealed he had shown her one of his new houses just before he died, sparking a candid conversation. 

'He went through a period interestingly enough just before he died when he was showing me one of his new houses,' Suzanne told NBC's Today show. 

'He came up to me and said "I love you so much and I'm so happy to be with you now".  It was almost as though it was a premonition or something. 

'I didn't think about it at the time but, how long had it been since we had a conversation like that? It's been years.'

'There was an inevitability to what was going to happen next to him, and he felt it very strongly,' she added. 

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'But he said, I'm not frightened any more, and it worried me... I think it was this new medication that he was on.' 

Suzanne opened up about her son's final days beside her partner, Perry's stepfather stepfather Keith Morrison, and three of his sisters. 

Keith recalled the devastating moment they received the news that Perry had died.  

'Somebody called Suzanne and just said, Matthew's dead,' he told Today. 

Recalling every parent's worst fear, Suzanne said the caller told her: 'Matthew's dead. Your son is dead'.

Suzanne added that she knew her son was 'very lonely in his soul'.  

'I'm a very lucky woman, but there was one glitch, one problem that I couldn't conquer,' she said. 'You've got to stop blaming yourself because it tears you up.' 

Keith said he believed Perry was sober at the time of his death. 

But Suzanne shook her head to signal no when asked by Savannah Guthrie if she believed her late son had stayed on the wagon. 

The couple said they welcomed the arrests of the people who allegedly supplied Perry with the ketamine which killed him. 

'I was thrilled,' Suzanne said, while Keith issued a warning to those involved. 

'What I'm hoping is that people who have put themselves in the business of supplying people with the drugs that'll kill them, they are now on notice,' he said.  

'It doesn't matter what your professional credentials are, you're going down, baby.' 

Doctors Salvador Plasencia, 42, and Mark Chavez, 54, alleged drug dealers Jasveen 'Ketamine Queen' Sangha, 41, and Eric Fleming, 54, and Perry's live-in assistant Kenneth Iwamasa, 59, have all been charged. 

Keith added that he thought Perry 'seemed sober' when he died - though Suzanne appeared to shake her head in disagreement.  

'I don't even know if in his mind he had relapsed,' Perry's sister Madeline Morrison said.  

Another sister, Caitlin Morrison, remembered Perry as someone who was 'grumpy all the time but funny all the time'.  

'When the people that he loved succeeded or they were scared, he would do anything for you,' she said while fighting back tears.  

'Really, all he ever wanted was to love and to be loved. He struggled so much to feel peace and I think he got to a place where he did.' 

Perry's family established the Matthew Perry Foundation, a charity aiming to support others suffering with addiction, just days after he died. 

In a statement to People, they said: 'It is important to us, as a family, to honor Matthew’s legacy.'

'The potential that the Matthew Perry Foundation has to help those suffering from this disease is something we are proud to bring to the world.'