Ozzy Osbourne remembers Matthew Perry’s addiction in his memoir

The late music legend Ozzy Osbourne reflected on Matthew Perry attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings at his home in Los Angeles.

The Grammy-winning artist, who passed away on July 22 this year, wrote in his posthumous memoir that the late Friends star “gave everything to stay clean” while battling addiction.

Matthew, who was found dead in his jacuzzi on October 29, 2023, at the age of 54, had opened up about his struggles with alcohol addiction before his death in hopes of preventing others from doing the same.

An extract from Osbourne’s book, Last Rites, reads that Matthew would “come to our house for AA meetings, or so my wife tells me.”

“He was the funniest, most talented bloke. And he was trying so hard,” Osbourne added, reflecting on the sadness he felt upon hearing of Matthew’s passing.

“Then one day he listened to his addiction telling him it was OK to get loaded,” Osbourne wrote. “And that was it, game over. He'd given everything to stay clean. But it wasn't enough.”

The Black Sabbath frontman revealed that he once considered trying a ketamine treatment, similar to the one Matthew became addicted to, as a way to fight his own struggles with addiction. However, the experience ultimately turned him away from the drug entirely.

“They started me on this tiny dose,” Osbourne recalled. “A microdose, they call it. But the second I felt it kick in, a very small but unmistakable altering of the mind, I was like, ‘Oh, yeah, I could have some serious fun with this.’”

He shared that after leaving the clinic, he vowed to himself that he would never let addiction “steal my spirit” again.

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