by Matthew Perry The last words before he died from “the acute effects of ketamine” and was found in his hot tub have been made public.
Recently released court documents obtained by NBC News and published on Friday, August 16, stating that Perry allegedly asked his assistant Kenneth Iwamasa for help in administering the drug three times.
Referring to the drug, the Friends star, who died in October 2023 at the age of 54, asked Iwamasa to “shoot me with a big one.”
Iwamasa was one of five people indicted on federal charges stemming from the investigation into the actor’s death, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced on Thursday, August 15.
Mike Pont/WireImage Five people have been indicted on federal charges stemming from the investigation into the death of Friends actor Matthew Perry, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced on Thursday, August 15. An autopsy revealed that Perry died due to the “acute effects of ketamine. ” on October 28, 2023. Also his personal assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa […]
An autopsy revealed that Perry died on October 28, 2023 due to the “acute effects of ketamine.” In addition to Iwamasa, Jasveen Sangha (aka “the Ketamine Queen”), Mark Chavez, Salvador Plasencia and Erik Fleming have all passed away. charged.
Iwamasa, Perry’s live-in personal assistant, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute ketamine causing death.
On the day of Perry’s death, Iwamasa administered three doses of ketamine to the actor, starting with a first dose around 8:30 a.m. that morning and a second dose four hours later. He said he administered the third dose just 40 minutes afterward before preparing the hot tub for Perry and leaving the actor to run errands. Iwamasa found Perry unconscious in the hot tub when he got home.
Although these are the three injections that prosecutors say led to Perry’s death, Iwamasa claimed he administered a total of 27 in the last five days of Perry’s life. Iwamasa has no medical training and followed Plasencia’s instructions.
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(Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images for “A Doll’s House, Part 2”)Friends and family were “blindsided” and “saddened” by Iwamasa’s arrest. We weekly reported on Thursday, August 15.
“Matthew kept secrets,” a source close to Matthew exclusively shared We weekly. “I wouldn’t be shocked if Kenny was the only one who knew how bad it really was.”
While Perry may not have been open about the severity of his addiction just before his death, he opened up about his past problems in his memoir. Friends, lovers and the big terrible thing.
The late Matthew Perry is survived by his extended family following the actor’s sudden death at the age of 54. “We are heartbroken by the tragic loss of our beloved son and brother,” they shared in a statement on Sunday, October 29. brought so much joy into the world, both as an actor and […]
“Ketamine was a very popular street drug in the 1980s. There is now a synthetic form of it,” he wrote in his book, released in 2022.
Perry explained that he would “dissociate” and used prescription ketamine treatment “to relieve pain and help with depression.”
The actor added: “Wrote my name all over it – they might as well have called it ‘Matty’. It was something different, and anything different is good.”
