Celebrity medium John Edward reportedly predicted Matthew Perry’s death just three days before he drowned in a hot tub aged 54 on Saturday.
The American psychic is currently touring Australia with his Crossing Over tour, and appeared onstage in Sydney on Wednesday to share his latest predictions.
According to an attendee named Karen, Edward stopped the performance after receiving a psychic message that she now realises was about Perry.
Recalling the chilling moment with The Kyle And Jackie O Show on Monday, Karen explained that she’d brought a copy of Perry’s memoir to Edward’s performance with the intention of giving it to her sister.
‘John asked during the show, ‘Did anyone bring a book of Little House on the Prairie?’ I didn’t think anything of it, but my daughter said, ‘Mum, you’ve got Matthew Perry’s book,” she explained.
‘Perry and Prairie, they sound similar. My daughter was saying, ‘Stand up, stand up’, but I was too embarrassed. And then Matthew died three days later, and I’m now thinking, ‘Was it a sign?”
Later in the show, another fan called to point out that Matthew’s father, actor John Bennett Perry, once starred in TV series Little House on the Prairie.
Perry, who was best known for playing the witty Chandler Bing in Friends, was found dead in a jacuzzi at his Pacific Palisades home on Saturday.
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A woman who attended Edward’s show in Sydney on Wednesday called The Kyle And Jackie O Show on Monday to claim the psychic had stopped the performance to ask the audience: ‘Did anyone bring a book of Little House on the Prairie?’
Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office announced Perry’s cause of death has been ‘deferred’ with the investigation considered ‘ongoing’ by authorities.
Perry was a smoker and had also battled alcoholism as well as an opioid addiction, but claimed to have been clean shortly before he is believed to have drowned.
He talked candidly about his problems in the past, having first gone to rehab in 1997 for an addiction to pain medication following a jet skiing accident.
He then returned in 2001 and 2011. He told an interviewer in 2016 that he doesn’t remember filming three seasons of Friends.
Despite hiding his demons from public view for years, Perry detailed his struggles in his 2022 memoir, Friends, Lovers And The Big Terrible Thing.
In the opening, he wrote: ‘Hi, my name is Matthew, although you may know me by another name. My friends call me Matty. And I should be dead.’
He added: ‘People would be surprised to know that I have mostly been sober since 2001. Save for about sixty or seventy little mishaps over the years.’
