Matthew Perry's CHILLING 15-Second Dispatch Call LEAKED

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00:00 an ongoing investigation to find out what really happened.

00:02 As of right now, we know he was found in his home in Los Angeles and he was found in his

00:06 jacuzzi.

00:07 There wasn't any sign of foul play or substance use aside from prescription medication and

00:11 even then, they were inside the house and not on the scene.

00:15 According to Global News, it may take a couple of weeks before they get a solid answer on

00:18 what exactly happened, but we now know that there was a dramatic 15-second dispatch call

00:23 made that sent first responders to Matthew's home.

00:26 A disturbing recording of the moment emergency services rushed to the scene has now been

00:31 leaked.

00:32 The audio tape refers to "drowning" known as in Emergency Medical Situation 9.

00:36 Matthew Perry's assistant was the one who made the urgent 911 call after the actor suffered

00:41 a cardiac arrest in his hot tub on Saturday.

00:44 He was found in his hot tub connected to his pool in his backyard, but according to the

00:48 Daily Mail, they reported he wasn't in the tub for long before his personal assistant

00:52 found him.

00:53 The assistant attempted to pull his head above the water to get oxygen and when she realized

00:57 there was no hope of breathing on his own, she tried to resuscitate him but to no avail.

01:02 LA law enforcement reported that his body had not been waterlogged when she found him,

01:07 meaning he was only in there for a short time before the alleged drowning.

01:11 The coroner showed up on the scene hours later and they took him awake.

01:15 His remains have been given to the family and they are in the process of deciding what

01:19 the best course of action will be.

01:21 In the wake of this tragic passing, many celebrities are now speaking out about possible warning

01:26 signs that we could've seen of the tragedy to come.

01:28 It's been reported that Matthew played pickleball almost every day with a female friend and

01:33 she noticed that he had been fatigued over the last week and appeared tired on the day

01:37 he died.

01:38 His pickleball partner has told how she spotted scary warning signs that he was unwell just

01:43 hours before his death in his hot tub.

01:46 Extra host Billy Bush revealed on his Instagram that his partner spotted signs he wasn't

01:50 quite right.

01:51 He wrote, "I spoke to the woman he played with this morning and every morning.

01:55 She is in shock, adored Matthew and said he had been fatigued today and over the past

02:00 week.

02:01 A little more than usual as well.

02:03 He played for one hour and then went home."

02:05 Matthew last posted on Instagram 5 days before his sudden death at age 54.

02:11 He shared a night time photo of himself inside a hot tub on Monday, October 23.

02:15 In the caption, he wrote, "Oh so warm water swirling around makes you feel good?

02:19 I'm Mat Man."

02:21 If you didn't know, Mat Man is a name he used in recent days while posting on social media

02:26 where he would often include references and imagery related to Batman.

02:30 In the past, he said he felt a connection to the comic book hero, a wealthy but damaged

02:34 man who used his grief at losing his parents as a child into helping others.

02:39 He said he felt that he was also helping others by speaking out about his struggles with addiction.

02:44 In fact, Matthew recently posted a picture of Batman's logo illuminated in red lights

02:48 with the caption, "Sleep well everybody.

02:50 I've got the city tonight."

02:52 The day before the hot tub photo, he posted a video of the moon with the caption, "Do

02:55 you understand what I'm trying to tell you?

02:57 I'm Mat Man."

02:58 As recently as Tuesday, he posted on Twitter saying, "Let's make stigmas a stigma.

03:03 I'm Mat Man #mentalhealth" but it wasn't all cryptic messages.

03:07 On October 15, he shared a rare photo of himself with his father, actor John Bennett Perry.

03:12 In the caption, he wrote, "Here is me and my father John, both holding a beverage."

03:16 So it seemed like he was just sharing happy memories here.

03:19 Fans have also been looking back at other moments which almost seemed like they could

03:23 have foreshadowed this incident, like Jennifer Aniston's four-word warning to Matthew, which

03:27 has now resurfaced.

03:29 As we know, Matthew rose to fame for his role as Chandler Bing on the hit 90s sitcom alongside

03:34 Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, and David Schwimmer.

03:39 And just last year, he revealed that he and Jennifer had stayed in each other's lives

03:42 and remained in close contact.

03:44 He said, "She was the one that reached out the most.

03:47 You know, I'm really grateful to her for that."

03:49 He went on to reveal that it was Jennifer who confronted him first about his addictions

03:53 during the filming of the show when the symptoms of his problem were just too obvious to ignore.

03:58 Apparently, she approached him during a break in filming and told him, "We know you're

04:02 drinking."

04:03 Looking back on that moment, Matthew thought it was scary.

04:05 At that point in his life, he said he should've been the toast of the town, but instead, he

04:09 was in a dark room meeting with nothing but dealers, and he felt completely alone.

04:14 In his own mind, he thought he was doing a perfectly fine job hiding his habits from

04:18 his co-stars, but at a certain point, they all knew he was in trouble and did their best

04:23 to support him.

04:24 Matthew spoke about the moment that all of his friend's co-stars found out about it.

04:28 Matthew said they were all understanding and they were all patient.

04:31 Quote, "It's like penguins, penguins in nature when one is sick or when one is very

04:35 injured, the other penguins surround it and prop it up.

04:39 They walk around it until that penguin can walk on its own.

04:42 That's kind of what the cast did for me."

04:44 For a while, he thought he could hide behind his infectious humor and push forward with

04:48 his life on the wings of the success of Friends.

04:51 He said, "I thought being funny all the time was how I would get through it.

04:54 I thought Friends was going to fix everything, but it didn't."

04:57 Ultimately, Matthew would get clean and sober in 2001, but he estimated that he relapsed

05:02 60 or 70 times over the years, according to his 2022 memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the

05:08 Big Terrible Thing.

05:10 Along the way, he had many stints in rehabilitation facilities and suffered through a number of

05:15 serious health issues, including a 5-month hospitalization in 2018 after his colon ruptured

05:21 due to overuse.

05:22 So he had an incredibly long battle just trying to beat his own habits, which was extremely

05:26 difficult for him as it would be for anyone.

05:29 Yes, he said he had good support system, but it's not always that simple.

05:33 In his memoir, which was released in November of 2022, he opened up about his struggle with

05:38 the overuse of substances and how he didn't want to jeopardize the show because he loved

05:43 his co-workers and the scripts.

05:45 And he didn't want to let anyone down.

05:47 He says that at that point in his issue, the show had really taken off and the stakes were

05:51 really high, so he kept it a secret until the show ended.

05:55 He was under a lot of stress and pressure because it was filmed in front of a live audience,

05:59 and when the audience wouldn't laugh, he would go into full panic mode and would sometimes

06:03 start sweating and convulsing.

06:05 So the use of substances helped take some of the edge off.

06:08 But that wasn't there the issue started, though.

06:10 Back when he was filming Fools Rushed In, he got into a jet ski accident on set and

06:15 was given pain medication that was highly addictive, which is what kicked off his unfortunate

06:19 habit of using them to take the edge off.

06:22 He confessed he had gone to over 6,000 AA meetings, had been in and out of rehab 15

06:27 times, and had been in detox 65 times just to get fully clean from his issues.

06:32 He truly did put in the effort to get better and be in a better place in life, but even

06:37 after all of this, he had residual health problems which could have been the cause of

06:40 his passing as well.

06:42 When sharing about his substance use and the toll it began to take on his body, Matthew

06:46 confessed he was taking as many as 55 pills a day, which contributed to his weight dropping

06:51 to just 128 pounds.

06:54 In an interview last year, he admitted that he didn't know how to stop.

06:57 He also shared an analogy that explains the power that these substances had over him at

07:01 the height of his TV career.

07:03 He said, "If the police came over to my house and said, 'If you drink tonight, we're

07:06 going to take you to jail,' I'd start packing.

07:09 I couldn't stop because the disease and the addiction is progressive, so it gets worse

07:13 and worse as you grow older."

07:15 At his lowest point, Matthew revealed that he was given just a 2% chance to live while

07:20 in hospital.

07:21 He spoke about this horrific experience in the memoir and how he had the mental strength

07:25 to survive that trauma.

07:27 During last year's interview, he told a story and became overcome with emotion, saying,

07:31 "I'm an extremely grateful guy.

07:33 I'm grateful to be alive, and that's for sure.

07:36 And that gives me the possibility to do anything."

07:39 He went on to reveal that part of his inspiration for writing an open and honest memoir with

07:43 all the ups and downs was the hope that his stories could serve as kind of a lifeline

07:47 for others like Jennifer Aniston was for him.

07:51 As we know, his memoir exposed his struggle with addictions, which got so severe that

07:55 in 2018, at the age of 49, he suffered a gastrointestinal perforation as a result of his extreme usage.

08:02 He was given just a 2% chance of living after being comatose for two weeks, and the actor

08:07 had to use a colostomy bag while his colon healed.

08:11 Matthew revealed that while his body was relying on the bag, he woke up in a horrific state

08:15 50-60 times throughout the five months he was hospitalized.

08:18 So he made it very clear that he was suffering during this time, and the worst part about

08:23 all of this was the secret it all was.

08:25 Very few people knew that he was going through this, and Matthew once joked that viewers

08:29 of Friends could now tell what substances he was using by observing his changing appearance.

08:34 He said in his book, "You can track the trajectory of my addiction if you gauge my

08:38 weight from season to season.

08:39 When I'm carrying weight, it's alcohol.

08:41 When I'm skinny, it's pills.

08:43 When I have a goatee, it's a lot of pills."

08:45 Which is extremely sad when you think about how well it was hidden from everyone around

08:49 him.

08:50 In the wake of his sudden death, reactions and tributes have been pouring in from the

08:53 Friends community, including some of his former co-stars.

08:58 Many of these amazing tributes paying homage to Perry's life and legacy both on and off

09:02 screen.

09:03 The official Friends account on Instagram made a post saying, "We are devastated to

09:06 learn of Matthew Perry's passing.

09:08 He was a true gift to us all, and our heart goes out to his family, loved ones, and all

09:13 of his fans."

09:14 A representative for the actor and law enforcement confirmed his death to NBC News.

09:18 He was found at his home in Pacific Palisades after an apparent drowning.

09:22 He was only 54.

09:24 Known best for his iconic portrayal of Chandler Bing on the long-running sitcom Friends, Matthew

09:29 Perry won international recognition and critical acclaim throughout his prolific Hollywood

09:33 career.

09:34 There is no doubt that he will be truly missed.

09:38 (Outro)

09:52 "I'm just gonna say it again.

09:53 Matthew Perry was a true gift to us all, and our heart goes out to his family, loved

09:54 ones, and all of his fans.

09:55 We are devastated to learn of Matthew Perry's passing.

09:56 He was a true gift to us all, and our heart goes out to his family, loved ones, and all

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