WHO KILLED MATTHEW PERRY?

AUTHORITIES QUESTION A CELEBRITY AS PART OF A SHOCKING INVESTIGATION INTO THE FRIENDS STAR'S TRAGIC DEATH

He had been to rehab 15 times. “I lived half my life in one form or another of treatment center or sober living house,” Matthew Perry wrote in his 2022 memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing. “To simply stay alive, I had to turn myself into a professional patient.”

But during one of those stints, an insider reveals to In Touch in a world exclusive, Matthew may have made a connection that would ultimately prove fatal. In May, the LAPD launched a bombshell criminal investigation with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service into the circumstances surrounding the Friends star’s death at 54 on Oct. 28. “They have basically been on the hunt for Matthew’s killer,” says the insider. And now there’s a shocking new lead. “Officers seized an iPhone and a laptop from a woman’s room at a sober living residence in LA and brought her in for questioning,” the insider tells In Touch. “She’s a celebrity in her own right, and they met in rehab. They formed an unexpected friendship.”

The woman, who is a household name because of her marriage to an A-lister, “was in total shock and had no idea what the search warrant was about” when authorities arrived at her sober living house, which she’d entered after her latest rehab stint. “She wasn’t expecting what happened to happen,” the insider says, adding that the woman was not handcuffed, nor was she arrested. “The officers searched her room, and she surrendered everything. She was completely cooperative.”

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