Matthew Perry made a heartbreaking request just hours before he was found dead in the hot tub of his home.
The beloved Friends star’s last days were spent in the throes of a ketamine addiction, before he was found dead on October 28, 2023. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office cited the cause of death as an accident from the acute effects of ketamine.
Federal court documents showed Matthew had requested his assistant Kenneth Iwamasa to administer a large dose of the drug, saying “shoot me up with a big one” just before his death.
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On the day Matthew died, Iwamasa injected the actor with his first ketamine shot of the day at around 8.30am. Matthew then reportedly played a game of pickleball at around 11am.
At about 12.45pm, Matthew got his second ketamine injection for the day before settling down to watch a film. Nearing 1.30pm, Iwamasa administered what would be Matthew’s final ketamine dose while the actor relaxed in his hot tub.
After the injection, Iwamasa left to run some errands. By 4pm, Iwamasa returned to discover Matthew face down in the hot tub. He promptly pulled him out and called 911.
Paramedics arrived but declared Matthew dead at the scene. The coroner’s investigators determined that ketamine was the primary cause of his death, with drowning as a secondary cause.
Five people were charged in connection to Matthew’s death – Iwamasa, Erik Fleming, Dr Mark Chavez, Dr Salvador Plasencia and Jasveen Sangha, aka The Ketamine Queen. Dr Chavez has pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute the surgical anesthetic ketamine.
Chavez is the third person to plead guilty in relation to Matthew’s death. Iwamasa has admitted to helping the actor get ketamine and inject it and pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute ketamine causing death. Iwamasa is also helping the prosecution with the case.
Flemming also pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine and one count of distribution of ketamine resulting in death earlier this year. Charges were also brought against Dr Plasencia and Sangha have pleaded not guilty.
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