The coroner for Los Angeles County has listed Matthew Perry’s cause of death as ‘deferred’, pending the final results of toxicology tests.
Perry, 54, was found dead on Saturday in the hot tub of his Los Angeles home.
On Sunday afternoon, the coroner released his body to the family, but said they are yet to determine a cause of death.
The initial 911 call, made by his assistant, was for a cardiac arrest.
The Medical Examiner’s office can release initial results with in days, or it can take six to eight weeks for final results of toxicology tests to come back.
Los Angeles law enforcement sources told TMZ that no illicit drugs were found at his Pacific Palisades home.
Matthew Perry is pictured on October 21 – the last time he was seen in public. His cause of death is deferred, pending toxicology tests
Pictures in the wake of Perry’s death emerged showing the pool and hot tub at the Friends star’s home (pictured)
Sources did say that anti-depressant and anti-anxiety medications were found inside Perry’s home, including pills for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
Perry had a long battle with drugs and alcohol, and was also a smoker.
Perry wrote in his memoir, published last year, that he had spent $9 million trying to get sober, revealing he had been to 6,000 AA meetings, gone to rehab 15 times, and been in detox 65 times.
A LAPD source told The New York Post: ‘We responded to the 1800 block of Blue Sail Rd for a death investigation on a male 4:10 p.m. this afternoon. He was in his 50s.’
TMZ shared 16 seconds of dispatch audio where a man can be heard saying ‘rescue 23’ and ‘drowning.’
Perry had multiple health issues.
A jet ski accident in 1997, on the set of his film Fools Rush In, saw him hospitalized and later become addicted to the opioid painkiller Vicodin.
He said at one point he was taking 55 Vicodin pills a day, and his weight dropped to 128 pounds.
In 2000 he was taken to hospital with pancreatitis, and in 2018 his colon burst.
‘The doctors told my family that I had a 2% chance to live,’ Perry told Diane Sawyer during a promotional interview for his book.
‘I was put on a thing called an ECMO machine, which does all the breathing for your heart and your lungs. And that’s called a Hail Mary. No one survives that.’
Perry spent nearly two weeks in a coma and five months in the hospital, then used a colostomy bag for nine months.
He said he overcame addiction in 2021 and was leading a healthier lifestyle.