ex-girlfriend Kayti Edwards has opened up about leaving the actor because she as she shares the she would often send him. Now that in connection with his death, his ex-girlfriend and former assistant Kayti, 47, has come forward and shared her heartbreaking end with the star. In an exclusive interview with , Kayti explained that she witnessed first-hand Matthew's everyday struggle with addiction as she watched it spiral out of control.
And while she had built a strong bond with Matthew, she admitted that it came to a point where she couldn't stand to work or be romantically involved with him anymore. She explained: "Matthew paid me very well as his assistant but there came a point for me that he got so bad that I had no choice but to walk away from that salary. But I knew that I could not watch him die.
I would never, ever be able to live with myself.” Kayti went on to add: "There were so many sleepless nights that I would go home and I would wake up at four in the morning texting him, 'Are you alive? Are you alive? Just answer. Send me an emoji.
Send me something that you are there.' I couldn't sleep at night knowing what he was doing. And I think part of me stayed as long as I did, because if I didn't stay, he would have been alone, and he would have just kept going.
" Eventually, she managed to persuade him to go to rehab in January 2011. She explained: "I said, 'I'm not doing this anymore, Matthew, I am sorry you were going to hate me, but we are getting you in a rehab.'" was found dead facing down in his jacuzzi on October 28 at age 54.
His death was ruled an accident as his autopsy report revealed Perry had died from a drug to which Perry had been addicted for awhile She speaks out after Perry's live-in assistant, two doctors and one woman, dubbed "the ketamine queen" were among five people charged following an investigation into the actor's death. But Kayti, who is the step-granddaughter of British actress Julie Andrews, said that his links to doctors go back years, although his choice of drugs had changed. "Ketamine was his new thing, but it all started with unscrupulous doctors oversubscribing prescription pills like Vicodin," she says "When the charges dropped, I knew they would be doctors.
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.because that was what he always did. I was not surprised.
His addictive brain would think, ‘well, it was prescribed from a doctor so I can take it.’ In his head, it wasn't like he was out on the street, scoring drugs." She remembers being shocked by the sheer quantity of drugs he was consuming when she worked for him.
"I used to say to him 'how is it possible for someone to even get 50 to 60 Vicodin a day’ and he told me 'I have an in with the doctors.' That was back in 2011 and continued up until his death," she says. Investigators told how doctor Salvador Plasencia conspired with fellow medic Mark Chavez to supply the actor with large amounts of ketamine, writing in a message: "I wonder how much this moron will pay" and "let's find out".
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