Matthew Perry reportedly wanted to set up his own ketamine therapy business before his death, sources have said. It comes after five people, including his assistant and two doctors, were charged with getting him ketamine - the drug that killed him. In October of last year, the star died at 54 from a ketamine overdose.
At one point in his life, the late actor had become so engrossed with the drug that he was up to launch a business that sold ketamine, a friend of has revealed. friend claimed that The Odd Couple notable had become friends with an “unknown man” who he was going to start a company in Hollywood with to promote ketamine therapy, per Page Six. “He was telling me this [ketamine] is fantastic, he wanted to go into business with this one guy in Glendale, or somewhere in the Valley,” Matthew’s close friend divulged to the media outlet.
The friend claimed that the man was “giving him as much [ketamine]" as Matthew wanted. “Obviously this guy was giving him as much as he wanted, and with an addict, you can’t do that, it was terrible,” the insider added. “I think Matthew was even able to get ketamine without seeing a doctor.
” Matthew was very forthcoming about his ketamine usage in his 2022 memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing. In his book, he disclosed that he used the drug intended for tranquilizing horses “to ease pain and help with depression.” “Ketamine felt like a giant exhale,” he wrote.
“They’d bring me into a room, sit me down, put headphones on me so I would listen to music, blindfold me, and put an IV in.” He continued: “As I lay there in the pitch dark, listening to Bon Iver, I would disassociate, see things — I’d been in therapy for so long that I wasn’t even freaked out by this. Oh, there’s a horse over there? Fine — might as well be .
.. As the music played and K ran through me, it all became about ego, and the death of ego.
” Sometimes when he was receiving ketamine treatment he felt like he was “dying” but he continued to do it because it was “something different,” per his book. “And I often thought that I was dying during that hour,” Matthew’s memoir read. “Oh, I thought, this is what happens when you die.
” He added: “Yet I would continually sign up for this s–t because it was something different, and anything different is good.” The 90s and 2000s superstar’s buddy’s revelation comes on the back of the recent breakthrough in Matthew’s overdose investigation. A total of five people were arrested in connection to his death, and of the group were his assistant Kenny Iwamasa, and a woman named Jasveen Sangha.
Jasveen is nicknamed the “Ketamine Queen,” according to the New York Times. Also arrested were Dr. Salvador Plasencia, Dr.
Mark Chavez, and Dr. Fleming, who happened to be acquaintances of Matthew. Charges against the group include the following: Conspiracy to distribute ketamine, distribution of ketamine resulting in death, possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, and altering and falsifying records related to a federal investigation.
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