Friends star Matthew Perry’s family says investigation of his death has been ‘painful’: ‘It makes you angry’

“It makes you angry,” Morrison, who married Matthew Perry’s mother Suzanne Morrison in 1981, said, before adding that he couldn’t say “anything” specifically about the on-going investigation.

“I can only say I suspect it, that authorities, agencies got together to investigate and to lay charges against these people because Matthew is so famous or well known, it would get around. People would be aware of this investigation, they’d be aware of the charges, and it would be made public and it would serve notice to anybody who was in a position to be an enabler: you better not do it. Because the price, if you do, may be very high indeed,” he added.

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Perry’s mother had said she was “thrilled” that there was “some accountability” for the people who were involved in the ketamine Perry had in his system on the day of his death, People reported.

In interview with the Today show, Keith Morrison hoped that the actor’s death would act as a warning for “people who have put themselves in the business of supplying people with the drugs that will kill them. It doesn’t matter what your professional credentials are. You’re going down, baby,” he said, adding that Perry believed “somehow that this particular drug that he was taking wasn’t addictive, that it wouldn’t kill him. And of course it did.

“But he said to us — I think he said it publicly several times, ‘If I die suddenly, you may be shocked, but you probably won’t be surprised,'” Keith Morrison added.

The investigation into the actor’s death–initiated by California branch of the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Los Angeles Police Department–is ongoing.