Matthew Perry's family is reflecting on the late actor's hopes before his untimely death at the age of 54 ... sharing the "Friends" star was eager to start a family of his own.
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00:00Matthew Perry had big plans a year ago when right before his death and we'd heard the part about him
00:06Really wanted to get back into Hollywood that he was looking at scripts
00:10There was a one project a TV project
00:13He was deep into and considering but there were other plans for his personal life that his family are now speaking out about
00:21We told you we showed you a little bit of their interview with on today's show
00:25There was more that they had to say to NBC and it
00:28Family as well as some very close friends
00:32It's really sad what he's not getting to accomplish in his life Matthew was so
00:40Desperate for a solution to all of this and he talked about I it's time for me to have a
00:47Wife and it's time for me to have children and I want that and I you know
00:53I want a dog running around the house
00:55But he didn't appreciate
00:58the
00:59Frightening aspect of this medication. He spent his last Christmas
01:03Here at my house. I don't know somehow that's comforting. How did he seem to you?
01:08He just seems like he had he was on the right path. He was absolutely on the right path. He was writing
01:15He was reading scripts. He wanted to
01:17Direct, you know, the book had I just put a massive spark in his in his step
01:23Which were childhood friends what I find really interesting about this is
01:28And I think it's so instructive for people who are struggling is that you know
01:32There are a lot of people who think well if somebody's an addict
01:34They've just chosen that path and that's where they want to be a lot of addicts
01:40I don't know if it's most addicts, but I would guess it's most addicts. They're not happy in that place and
01:46They want like he said a family or they want, you know children or that, you know, they want to work and
01:53You know, it doesn't mean because they're in this dark place. They don't have those desires
01:59It's that they're in the grips of something and that they and and Matthew Perry was, you know
02:05Again, when you read his book, it's so moving
02:07he was in and out of that or most of his adult life and he
02:13Appreciated what it would be like to be sober what it would be like to have that kind of life and it just makes it
02:19Sadder, you know, it just makes it sadder and it's just really sad that you know toward towards the end of his life
02:24He was you know, really wanted this idea of kids and have a wife
02:28I know he dated a lot of people throughout his life. He was engaged once they broke off the engagement
02:33You you saw these stories actually just a couple years ago where he was, you know on dating apps
02:38Which you were kind of shocked to be like Matthew Perry is on I mean he was on Raya
02:43Which is like a higher echelon one
02:44But but still like it just showed like he really did want to find a partner and you know
02:50All the substance abuse issues kind of got in the way of that and speaking of substance abuse
02:53I thought it was really interesting that his mom had said
02:58That didn't understand that how scary this medication clearly she's talking about ketamine
03:04Was and it's unclear to me whether she's I don't think she's saying he shouldn't have been treated with that under the care of a
03:11Doctor, I think she's saying if he had realized the risk that he wouldn't do it on his own exactly
03:17At least not in the quantity that he was doing it
03:20You know, it's I will say a year into this they have processed a lot
03:24Yeah
03:25But it's also something by the way that they've gone through and Keith even had said shortly after
03:31Matthew died that it was
03:34Horrible, but not necessarily surprising. Yeah, because it's something that they all kind of lived through for many many years
03:42Hi, I'm Ashley from Chicago and it is just so crazy to think that a year later
03:46There's still so many conspiracy theories surrounding Matthew Perry's death as a new mom myself
03:52It's extra
03:53heartbreaking to hear that the thing he wanted the most was a wife and kids and a dog running around and just all of these
04:00things that most of us take for granted so
04:02Today, I'm just gonna try to remember the joy that he brought to the world and hope that he can rest in peace
04:07Well, you talk about conspiracy theories, but the reality is this was a conspiracy. It was a conspiracy
04:14allegedly between the doctors
04:16enablers
04:17Drug dealers, you know where behind his back they're talking about how much will this moron pay for ketamine?
04:25So there was really a conspiracy here when you guys hear like
04:29Matthew Perry's family talk about the ketamine stuff. Do you not kind of get the vibe that he thought like hey, I was being prescribed
04:36Ketamine by doctors. This is like not a drug that I'm abusing like it kind of gives no and I'll tell you why no
04:43When when when his assistant is shooting him up with it saying hit me with a big one
04:49That doesn't feel like it was in any way therapeutic or he would think that it's something that he just did
04:59You