Suzanne Morrison, the mother of the late Matthew Perry, is opening up about the Friends actor and in the weeks before his death.
In a new interview, Morrison explains she felt that Perry seemingly had a premonition about what was going to happen to him.
“He came up to me and said, ‘I love you so much and I’m so happy to be with you now,’” Morrison says in a preview of an upcoming interview on NBC’s Today. “It was almost as though it was a premonition of something. I didn’t think about it at the time but I thought, ‘How long has it been since we’ve had a conversation like that. It’s been years.’”
She continued, “I think there was something … there was an inevitability to what was going to happen next to him, and he felt it very strongly. But he said, ‘I’m not frightened anymore.’ And it worried me.”
Morrison sat down with Today’s Savannah Guthrie to discuss Perry a year after his death. Perry’s mother will be joined by his stepfather, Keith Morrison, and the actor’s other relatives.
“It’s a powerful conversation,” Guthrie said following the interview clip. There’s so much pain and sorrow, but [they] also have a real sense of purpose about the work that he was doing, helping others get sober. It was the purpose of his life, and so there’s some stuff to announce around that too.”
The full interview will air on October 28.
Perry died October 28 at his home in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles at the age of 54 from the acute effects of ketamine.