According to his stepfather, Perry’s dark thoughts seemed to turn after the publication of his 2022 memoir: Friends, lovers and the big terriblein which the actor touched on his addiction problems.
Morrison, 77, said People: “He came back from the book tour and he was still pinching himself, [saying] ‘I can’t believe people actually seem to like me.'”
He added: “It was brutal out there and he seemed to be in a place where he had finally beaten it. I think he put that in the book in a way, hoping he would beat this. Maybe if I say it in public. If I say it in a book, if they remind me all the time, maybe I can succeed.
“He put it all out there,” Morrison, the host of Datelinesaid.