Matthew Perry’s final words before he died from “the acute effects of ketamine” and was found in his hot tub have been made public. Newly released court documents obtained by NBC News and published on Friday August 16, detail that Perry reportedly asked his assistant Kenneth Iwamasa for help administering the drug three times. Referring to the drug, the Friends star, who died age 54 in October 2023, asked Iwamasa to “shoot me up with a big one.
” Iwamasa was among five people who have been indicted on federal charges stemming from the investigation into the actor’s death, the US Attorney’s Office announced on Thursday, August 15. An autopsy revealed that Perry died as a result of the “acute effects of ketamine” on October 28, 2023. As well as Iwamasa, Jasveen Sangha (a.
k.a. “the Ketamine Queen”), Mark Chavez, Salvador Plasencia and Erik Fleming have all been charged .
Iwamasa, Perry’s live-in personal assistant, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine causing death. On the day of Perry’s death, Iwamasa administered three doses of ketamine to the actor, beginning with a first dose around 8:30 that morning and a second one four hours later. He said he administered the third dose just 40 minutes after that before preparing the hot tub for Perry and leaving the actor to run errands.
Iwamasa found Perry unresponsive in the hot tub when he returned home. While those are the three injections that prosecutors allege led to Perry’s d.