{"id":53070,"date":"2023-11-11T01:01:38","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T01:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/11\/why-matthew-perrys-cause-of-death-could-take-a-couple-more-weeks-according-to-medical-examiner\/"},"modified":"2023-11-11T01:01:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T01:01:38","slug":"why-matthew-perrys-cause-of-death-could-take-a-couple-more-weeks-according-to-medical-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/11\/why-matthew-perrys-cause-of-death-could-take-a-couple-more-weeks-according-to-medical-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Matthew Perry&#8217;s cause of death could take &#8216;a couple more weeks&#8217;, according to medical examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2023-11-11\" datetime=\"1699664498\" pubdate=\"\">11 November 2023<\/time>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/matthew-perry\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,matthew-perry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matthew Perry<\/a>&#8216;s cause of death could take &#8220;a couple more weeks&#8221; to be released, according to a medical examiner.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Matthew Perry&#8217;s death could take time to determine<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Friends&#8217; star was found dead in a suspected drowning at the age of 54 towards the end of October and after the coroner initially listed his cause of death as &#8220;deferred&#8221; amid tests, Dr. Michael Baden has speculated why more tests may be required.<\/p>\n<p>He told FoxNews Digital: &#8220;They\u2019ve got pretty much 99% of what they&#8217;re going to get at this point as far as information goes, and they can release it now, or they can wait for a couple more weeks because they\u2019re looking for some unknown drug. They might be doing microscopic slides, but it\u2019s now about almost two weeks, so the toxicology should be finished.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I imagine what they\u2019re doing right now is discussing the findings with the prosecutor and the family, and that in good time it will be when they should release the findings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The &#8217;17 Again&#8217; star battled with drink and drug addictions for years before his death but police were quick to insist shortly after the tragedy that there were &#8220;no illegal drugs&#8221; found at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe doctor added: &#8220;If there are illegal drugs, the police would be involved \u2026 how he got illegal drugs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nMatthew &#8211; who was laid to rest last week in a funeral attended by his co-stars Jennifer Aniston, Matt Le Blanc, David Schwimmer, Courteney Cox, and Lisa Kudrow- is believed to have drowned, but law enforcement sources told TMZ first responders were scrambled for a cardiac arrest.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe actor\u2019s assistant made a frantic 911 call after the actor appeared to have suffered a heart attack.<\/p>\n<p>\nBut the dispatch audio clip, which was only 15 seconds and has been obtained by TMZ, referred to a drowning by stating there was an \u2018Emergency Medical Situation 9\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\nA first responder is heard saying: \u201cAgent 23. Rescue 23. EMS 9 on the radio. In response to the drowning.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/matthew-perrys-cause-death-take-couple-weeks-according-medical-examiner-1388234.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11 November 2023 Matthew Perry&#8216;s cause of death could take &#8220;a couple more weeks&#8221; to be released, according to a medical examiner. Matthew Perry&#8217;s death could take time to determine The &#8216;Friends&#8217; star was found dead in a suspected drowning at the age of 54 towards the end of October and after the coroner initially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2915,4712,827,2914,4987,4683],"class_list":{"0":"post-53070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-courteney-cox","9":"tag-david-schwimmer","11":"tag-lisa-kudrow","12":"tag-matt-le-blanc","13":"tag-matthew-perry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}