Charlie Sheen ‘Could Tell’ Matthew Perry ‘Wasn’t Sober’ Before His 2023 Death: ‘I Felt Bad For Him’

Charlie Sheen publicly struggled with substance abuse issues his entire adult life — and he had his suspicions that Matthew Perry had relapsed a year before his death.

During a Tuesday, September 16, appearance on Piers Morgan Uncensored, the Two and a Half Men alum, 60, opened up about observing Perry while the Friends star was promoting his 2022 memoir, Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing.

“I could see when he was promoting it, and I could feel the prison he had put himself in,” he said.  “Because I could tell he wasn’t sober talking about a book that is all about sobriety and recovery.”

“I felt bad for him,” Sheen continued. “Then when I heard a little snippet from the audiobook, he didn’t have that perfect, specific, laser-focused diction that he always had delivering comedy or anything at the level that he did.”

“I could hear him handicapped,” Sheen added.

The Spin City star admitted he wanted to reach out weeks after reading Perry’s book, but ultimately decided not to.

When asked if he wished that he had been able to get through to Perry, Sheen — who recently released his own memoir, The Book of Sheen, and an accompanying two-part Netflix documentary, aka Charlie Sheen — said, “I don’t know that I could have affected any part of what ultimately happened.”

Perry was found dead in the hot tub of his Pacific Palisades home on October 28, 2023. Following an autopsy, it was determined that the Fools Rush In star died from the acute effects of ketamine. He was 54.