Matthew Perry's ex Maeve Quinlan talks about his death

Matthew Perry’s fans were in absolute shock after hearing news of his death, and his ex-girlfriend Maeve Quinlan also has regrets for not reaching out Mathew before his demise..

Maeve Quinlan, The Bold and the Beautiful actress who dated Mathew from 2002 to 2003, told Soap Opera Digest, “When Matthew and I embarked on a romantic relationship, he was 100 percent sober and was very open about his previous struggles.”

Quinlan, 59 told the digest that they had a strong bond, and said, “That was his one fully sober year, and we were practically inseparable. One of the reasons he liked being with me was that I didn’t do drugs.”

The Friends star and Quinlan's relationship lasted for not more than a year and they eventually became best friends later on, which “morphed into eventually and seamlessly just being best friends, like brother and sister.”

While talking about Perry’s memoir in which he talked about his drug addiction, Quinlan revealed one of her regrets and admitted, “I regret to this day that I did not call Matthew to tell him I was proud of him.”

She continued, “It took a lot of guts and bravery for him to write that book and be so brutally honest.”

According to Quinlan, learning about Matthew’s death was not surprising, and she even went as far as to admit, “I was devastated, it wasn’t a shock, but I still couldn’t believe it happened. As the years went on, so many of us lost Matty little by little to his disease."

For those unversed, Perry released his book Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing in 2022, which was about his time in Hollywood and his struggles with addiction.

He died in October 2023 at the age of 54, when he was found unconscious in a hot tub. The cause of death was acute effects of ketamine, according to an autopsy report.