Matthew Perry was given a total of 27 ketamine shorts in October 2023 at the age of 54 three days before his tragic death, a new documentary revealed.
The final moments of the beloved “Friend” actor were stripped naked by US lawyer Martin Estrada in a new Peacock documentary entitled “Matthew Perry: The Tragedy of Hollywood.”
According to an autopsy report, Perry's death was marked by the “acute effects of ketamine,” and the method was accidental drowsing.
The “All 9 Yards” actor was openly about the struggle between addiction and substance abuse that the documentary covers.
“Dr. Placencia was very clear in his text message… he sees this as an opportunity to make a lot of money in a short time, and it is said that he did just that,” Estrada said in a new documentary. It's there.
The documentary also covers the arrests of five people made with probes for Perry's death. This includes two doctors, his live-in personal assistant and a suspected drug dealer known as the “Ketamine Queen.”
Some of them are still awaiting trial, including Dr. Salvador Placencia and Jasven Sangha, known as the “Queen of Ketamine.” Both pleaded not guilty to the crime, and US District Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett set up a joint trial for the pair on March 4, 2025.
Kenneth Iwamasa, Perry's former live-in personal assistant, pleaded guilty on August 7, 2024 to one count of a conspiracy to distribute death-causing ketamine.
“In the past, we called these things deaths overdose and made more condemnation of the victims,” Estrada said in the documentary.
“We don't do that anymore. We blame drug sellers, drug dealers, to use these addiction issues to cause death or serious injuries. So, these cases It brings you.”
“The big challenge from this case is that people involved in reckless activities, whether it's drug trade or other activities, need accountability if it causes the death of others. That's it,” Estrada added.
On the morning of his death, Perry allegedly asked his longtime assistant to manage his first ketamine shot of the day at about 8:30am.
Four hours later, Iwamasa submitted that the actor had injected another dose while watching the film at his Pacific Palisades home.
According to court documents, it was about 40 minutes later that Perry asked for yet another ketamine shot.
“Shoot me with the big one,” the actor apparently told Iwamasa before instructing his assistant to prepare a hot tub.
After injecting his boss a third dose in just six hours, the rock set out to run errands, the documents say.
Iwa Masa, who has been working for the actor since 1994, finally discovers that Perry is down in the hot tub when he returns home.
At the time of his death, Perry had been undergoing ketamine therapy for several weeks due to depression.
