Matthew Perry planned to set up ketamine-based business before his death, claims source

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Matthew Perry was reportedly planning to set up a business dealing with ketamine.

An unnamed close friend of his revealed that the actor wanted others to experience the therapeutic benefits of the drug, as reported by Page Six.

Matthew Perry’s pal claims he was taking ‘ketamine without seeing a doctor’

The source shared, “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.”

They continued, “Obviously this guy was giving him as much as he wanted, and with an addict, you can’t do that, it was terrible. I think Matthew was even able to get ketamine without seeing a doctor.”

Mathew Perry said ‘Ketamine felt like a giant exhale’

The ‘Friends’ star, who died in October 2023, had even spoken about his ketamine therapy in his book ‘Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing.’

“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 penned.

He explained, “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.”

“And 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,” he had mentioned.

Matthew Perry’s death compared to Anna Nicole Smith’s

But as per his pal that did not stop Matthew Perry from availing it.

They said, “When Matthew died, I knew right away, before it came out, that obviously it was the ketamine that was behind it.”

“It’s like Anna Nicole Smith when she died [in 2007], many of these Dr. Feelgoods in Los Angeles will administer medication or pills many times when dealing with an addict and you have got to be very concerned,” he stated.

The friend also asserted, “It’s clearly an abuse, and somebody should be responsible, Matthew’s death could have been avoided, you cannot give an addict meds, they can’t control their urges.”

Five people charged for Matthew Perry’s death

This came as five people have been arrested and charged in connection with Matthew Perry’s death.

They are doctors Salvador Plasencia and Mark Chavez, Perry's live-in assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa, broker Mark Fleming, and a woman named Jasveen Sangha.

As per US Attorney Martin Estrada, “These defendants took advantage of Mr. Perry's addiction issues to enrich themselves. They knew what they were doing was risking great danger to Mr Perry, but they did it anyway.”

“Drug dealers selling dangerous substances are gambling with other people’s lives over greed. This case, along with our many other prosecutions of drug-dealers who cause death, send a clear message that we will hold drug-dealers accountable for the deaths they cause,” Estrada added in a press release.