Matthew Perry’s ex reveals ‘desperately sad’ step he took to stop using drugs

Matthew Perry’s ex-girlfriend Kayti Edwards claims she once found the late actor lying on a couch with his hands superglued to his legs so he wouldn’t consume drugs.

“I was at Matthew’s place in the Hollywood Hills,” Edwards, 47, told The Sun on Saturday. “He was in a bad way.”

Edwards — who claims she dated the “Friends” star in 2006 before working as his assistant five years later — said Perry “had been getting high all night on a plethora of drugs, most likely crack cocaine and other substances.”

“I found Matthew on the couch with his hands superglued to his legs — it was desperately sad,” Edwards continued. “I had to use nail polish remover and olive oil to free him.”

“We were literally ripping the hair from his legs, and he had red, raw patches left behind,” she recalled, adding that the entire process was “pretty horrific.”

According to Edwards, the “Serving Sara” star was always thinking about taking drugs.

“Even when he was clean and going through rehab, he was still thinking about taking drugs,” Edwards stated. “He would say, ‘Let’s go get some cocaine. What do you think about that? Ha, I’m just joking.’”

“But I would say, ‘Let’s go get some lunch instead,’” Edwards said.

This is not the first time Edwards has made the superglue claim — she shared a similar recollection in 2018 with In Touch Weekly.

“I’m looking at him and he’s high out of his mind, and he hadn’t showered in like [nine] days or something and the guy has just superglued his hands to his legs,” Edwards described.

“And he wants me to unstick him, and I have no idea, because I’ve never dealt with somebody whose superglued their hands to their legs,” she added.

The Post reached out to Edwards and Perry’s former rep for comment.

Perry, 54, was found dead at his Los Angeles home on Oct. 28.

He was discovered submerged and unresponsive in his hot tub.

An autopsy determined that Perry died from “acute effects of ketamine,” with contributing factors listed as “drowning, coronary artery disease and buprenorphine effects.”

Perry had been receiving ketamine infusion therapy for depression and anxiety, with the last treatment a week and a half before his death, according to the autopsy report.

The medical examiner noted that the drug in his system could not have been from his final session — it’s unclear where it came from.

Perry had 3.54 micrograms per milliliter of ketamine — nearly three times the normal amount — in his bloodstream at the time of his death.

“He essentially died from an overdose of ketamine and had about three times the normal [dosage] amount in his system,” pathologist Dr. Michael Baden later told The Post.

Weeks before the release of the autopsy report, Edwards said that facts about Perry’s death “did not add up.”

“I know Matthew and I know that he wouldn’t have just drowned,” she told The Sun in November. “I think he might have taken pills in the week leading up to this.”

According to Edwards — whose grandfather was married to film legend Julie Andrews until he died in 2010 — Perry “was paranoid and would take them all, so there wasn’t any evidence, and then go out for more when he was ready to.”

Edwards also claimed that Perry’s use of the moniker “Mattman” in his final Instagram post was a major clue that he was using again.

“That Mattman thing was not something he did when he was sober. Mattman would come out when he was not sober and he felt kind of invincible,” Edwards claimed. “I was around when he was getting high, although I was not getting high with him, and when I would say maybe he should cool it a little bit with the drugs, he would say, ‘No, I’m Mattman.’”