Matthew Perry described 'good' effect of ketamine therapy before his overdose death
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Almost a year after Matthew Perry died of “acute effects of ketamine” aged 54, five individuals have been arrested for supplying the drug that ultimately facilitated the ‘Friends’ actor’s tragic demise.
As the “Ketamine Queen” Jasveen Sangha was arrested for her role in supplying ketamine to the actor, it seems quite foretelling that Perry wrote about his subliminal experience with the drug in his memoir ‘Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing’.
Perry, who has struggled with his drug and substance addiction for a long time, spoke candidly about his experience with ketamine in his 2022 memoir.
Matthew Perry wrote ketamine felt like a ‘giant exhale’
Narrating his experience, the ‘17 Again’ actor wrote that he underwent ketamine therapy for his depression while associating the effects of the anesthetic as “being hit in the head with a giant happy shovel," per Page Six.
He recalled his experience of undergoing ketamine therapy in a facility while describing, “Ketamine felt like a giant exhale. 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 also admitted that during the process, he became a fan of the drug as he was getting accustomed to the drug’s hallucinogenic effects.
He wrote, “There is a synthetic form of [ketamine] now, and it’s used for two reasons: to ease pain and help with depression. Has my name written all over it — they might as well have called it 'Matty,'" per Yahoo!
He claimed that he would often “disassociate” and “see things,” while continuing, “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 the K ran through me, it all became about the ego, and the death of the ego,” narrated the star.
Quite ominously, Perry recalled getting treated by his anxiety medication as a combination of Ativan and ketamine and reflected on death.
He wrote, “I often thought that I was dying during that hour. ‘Oh,’ I thought, ‘this is what happens when you die.’”
“Yet I would continually sign up for this s**t because it was something different, and anything different is good,” admitted the star.
Tragically, the actor who spent countless days reflecting on death induced by ketamine was found unresponsive lying in the hot tub of his Pacific Palisades home on October 28, 2023.
An autopsy report later revealed the star died from “acute effects of ketamine” which led to his drowning in the tub.
Five individuals have been arrested for Matthew Perry’s death
Only last week, on August 15, US Attorney Martin Estrada named five individuals who have been charged in relation to Perry’s death.
Apart from the ‘Ketamine Queen’ Jasveen Sangha; two doctors - Dr Salvadore Plasencia and Dr Mark Chavez; broker Erik Fleming and Perry’s live-in assistant Kenneth “Kenny” Iwamasa have been arrested.
It has been revealed that the ‘Fools Rush In’ actor, who was already undergoing prescribed ketamine therapy for depression, reached out to Plasencia to procure more of the drug.
Plasencia and Chavez supplied Perry with more than 20 vials of ketamine for which they took $55,000 in cash.
Perry’s assistant of 30 years, Iwamasa has “admitted to repeatedly injecting Perry with ketamine without medical training” and revealed that he shot “multiple injections” to Perry on the day of his death, per the Department of Justice.
He also admitted that he found Perry "unconscious" multiple times before the actor's death.
