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Friends star Matthew Perry died of ketamine overdose, autopsy finds

Friends actor Matthew Perry died in October at 54 [Rich Fury/Invision/AP Photo]

Friends actor Matthew Perry, who was found dead in a jacuzzi at his Los Angeles home in October, died from an accidental ketamine overdose, an autopsy has found.

Perry, who played the wise-cracking Chandler Bing in the popular US sitcom, passed away from the “acute effects” of the sedative, with drowning a secondary cause in his October 28 death at age 54, the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office said on Friday.

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