It was reported earlier this week that Brooke Mueller, 46,

had been questioned multiple times after police executed a search

warrant at the sober living facility where she is living in May.

Officers probing Perry’s death from ketamine in October last year are said to have taken an iPhone and laptop belonging to Mueller and she is said to have hired legal representation.

It was claimed that Perry and New York-born actress Mueller had met in rehab and formed an “unlikely friendship”.

But the Friends star’s ex-girlfriend and former assistant Kayti Edwards revealed that Perry was “romantically involved” with Mueller almost 20 years ago after they met in Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.

Mueller did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Edwards, 48, exclusively told The U.S. Sun: “Brooke dated Matthew in 2006, at around the time I first started hanging out with Matthew.

“They definitely did not first meet initially in rehab, we all met in AA in 2006.

“She and I were seeing him at the same time, there was no girlfriend and boyfriend relationship – we just dated.

“He would take me out on dates and he would take her out on dates. It was kind of like this thing, like ‘Are you going out with Brooke tonight?’ “It was back and forth between her and I but they were definitely romantically involved.

“She was like my rival, I knew of her and I’m sure she knew of me.

“We were hanging out with Matthew, dating him and it wasn’t really a big deal.

“It was probably a three-month thing because that’s what him and I were.

“Him and Brooke and me and he never went out publicly and looked romantic, it was always in his house.”

In Touch first reported on Tuesday that Mueller has been questioned in connection with Perry’s death.

The following day the same outlet quoted Charlie Sheen’s lawyer Gregory J. Pedrick, who played down Mueller’s connection to the case.