The girl Matthew Perry was once endmost evident without in nation has been recognized … and she or he says the past due actor was once in excellent spirits all through their communicate the age earlier than he gave up the ghost.

Athenna Crosby, a 25-year-old fashion and leisure reporter, has come ahead because the thriller brunette Matthew went out with endmost Friday on the Lodge Bel-Wind … revealing she “had the honor of knowing Matthew personally.”

Athenna writes, “I am so devastated from his death but felt it was in poor taste to talk about it publicly as the attention should not be on me but rather on him and his legacy and he was an extremely private person and I always respected that in our friendship.”

She says Matthew was once in “extremely good spirits” after they dined together — including he talked along with her “enthusiastically about the things that he had coming up in his life. He was so happy and vibrant.”

Past some might speculate this month was once romantic, Athenna assures us it wasn’t … telling TMZ they have been simply pals and met thru a mutual pal a couple of months in the past.

She additionally tells us Matthew was once very certain all through their chat … serious about losing a few pounds and taking a look ahead to heading to the pickleball court docket on Saturday. As you already know, he was once found unresponsive in his jacuzzi later spending hours on the court docket.

BTW, Athenna shared a have a look at the signed album she has of Matthew’s memoir, ‘Buddies, Fanatics, and the Obese Dreadful Factor’ — wherein he referred to as her “the number 1 girl.”