Morrison outside his home after Perry’s death — Wally Scully/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
keith morrison is well known as international date line Although he is a correspondent, he is probably less well known as the deceased’s stepfather. Matthew Perry.
The journalist married Perry’s mother, suzanne langford perryIn 1981, when Matthew was 12 years old.
upon Hoda Kotb‘s make space In the podcast, Mr Morrison said Mr Perry and the rest of his family were still reeling from his death at the age of 54. friend Starr struggled with addiction throughout his adult life, and his death was thought to be due to the acute effects of ketamine.
“It’s as others have said to me hundreds of times. It hasn’t gone away yet,” Morrison said of his own grief and that of Matthew’s mother.
Morrison added: “Towards the end of their lives, they were closer than I had seen them in decades… They emailed constantly, and he shared things with her that most middle-aged men don’t share with their mothers.” “I shared it with him,” he added.
“He was happy, and said so. And he hadn’t said that in a long time,” he expressed of the star, noting that it was a “source of comfort.” He also admitted that it was “unfair” that Perry “couldn’t perform the third act.”
“[A]Mr Morrison himself said: “If I suddenly died people would be shocked, but not many people would be surprised.” “And he was right.”
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