MATTHEW PERRY GOT HIGH BEFORE HOT TUB HORROR!

Ex-lover dishes on tragic relapse

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TRAGIC Friends star Matthew Perry — a notorious boozer and drug addict — was abusing substances again when he died in the hot tub at his L.A. home — despite claiming to be clean and sober!

That’s the shocking conclusion of the 54-year-old sitcom legend’s former galpal Kayti Edwards, who says Perry showed all the signs of falling off the wagon in the days before his corpse was found at the bottom of the whirlpool by a stunned assistant in late October.