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Police in Los Angeles have announced that an investigation has been opened into the death of actor Matthew Perry.
Perry, star of the TV hit Friends, died in October from "acute effects of ketamine," medical officials said at the time.
The investigation will examine how the actor got the anesthetic ketamine that was found in his system. Drowning was also listed as a contributing factor in his death, which was ruled an accident.
In a statement to the media on Tuesday, the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed that it is working with the Drug Enforcement Agency and the US Postal Inspection Service on an investigation into the death of the 54-year-old.
It's unclear how far along the investigation, which was first reported by TMZ, is or who has been interviewed as part of it.
Perry was found lifeless in the pool of his LA home on October 28 and was later pronounced dead at the scene.
The LA County medical examiner's office said in December that there were "elevated levels of ketamine found in postmortem blood."
Deputy Chief Medical Examiner Raffi Djabourian added that other contributing factors to his death were coronary artery disease and the effects of buprenorphine, which is used to treat opioid use disorder.
"The drowning may also have been caused by diving into the pool after he fell unconscious. Coronary artery disease contributes because of the worsening myocardial effects of ketamine on the heart,” he said.
Perry had been receiving medically supervised ketamine treatments for depression and anxiety at the time of his death, although the report noted that the last prescribed ketamine treatment was a week and a half before his death.
At the height of his fame, Perry was struggling with addiction to painkillers and alcohol, and attended rehab clinics on numerous occasions.
In 2016, he told BBC Radio 2 that he couldn't remember three years of filming during Friends because of drink and drugs.
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