Matthew Perry was not a victim of anyone.
We’re learning a lot about how he died, all sordid: the doctors who prosecutors say illegally supplied him with strong opioids; the personal assistant who lived with him and often injected him with drugs; the near-death experience that did nothing to deter his dealers, enablers or Perry himself.
“Shoot me with a big one.”
That was Perry’s last instruction to his assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa, on the day of his death, after he had received two injections of ketamine, one at 8.30am and another at around 12.30pm that same day.
The third dose, the “big dose” that Perry requested, was injected by Iwamasa just 40 minutes later. Iwamasa then left to run errands.
Perry, high and alone, climbed into his hot tub.
All of which leads me to wonder: Maybe he wanted to die?
We’re learning a lot about how Matthew Perry died, all sordid: the doctors who illegally supplied him with opioids; the personal assistant who lived with him and often injected him with drugs; the near-death experience that did nothing to deter his dealers, enablers or Perry himself.
“Pass me a big one.” That was the last instruction Perry gave to his assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa (pictured), on the day of his death, after having already received two injections of ketamine, one at 8.30am and another around 12.30pm that same day.
To be clear: If convicted, those accused of supplying Perry with ketamine on the black market, especially Dr. Salvador Plasencia and Dr. Mark Chavez, should be punished to the fullest extent of the law. They demonstrated cowardly greed at the expense of a very sick man.
At one point, Plasencia — who has pleaded not guilty and was known as “Dr. P” — bragged about aggressively overcharging Perry, texting Chavez: “I wonder how much this idiot is going to pay.”
But Matthew Perry was no idiot. He knew exactly what he was doing.
It was Perry who demanded the ketamine, at whatever price: a whopping $55,000 from Plasencia in a single month.
And it was Perry who found another source of supply, street dealer Erik Fleming, who allegedly connected the actor and his assistant to Jasveen Sangha, the so-called “Ketamine Queen of Los Angeles.”
In the weeks before his death, Perry was shot in the backseat of a car parked outside an aquarium in Long Beach, California.
Days later, he was left paralyzed, unable to move or speak, after a home injection administered by Plascencia, hours after Perry had taken a supervised dose of ketamine at a medical facility.
Iwamasa injected him six to eight times a day and found him unconscious at least twice.
Matthew Perry felt like the rules just didn’t apply to him.
“I think of all the doctors and nurses at UCLA Medical Center for saving my life,” he wrote in his 2022 memoir. “I am no longer welcome at that hospital because I was caught smoking there for the last time.”
This is the same guy who crashed his Porsche into someone’s living room and walked away without being arrested or criminal charges filed.
Why wouldn’t he feel entitled? He was rarely, if ever, held accountable.
The third dose, the “big dose” Perry had requested, was injected by Iwamasa just 40 minutes later. Iwamasa left to run errands. Perry, drugged and alone, climbed into his hot tub.
“Perry couldn’t handle tough love,” an AA source told the New York Post. “I feel sorry for him, but… sometimes ‘helping’ someone is actually making things easier for them.”
True, but all the evidence points to Perry ultimately rejecting help and instead giving in to the darkest parts of himself.
Perry wrote about his own amazement at being alive: 55 Vicodin a day, more than 65 detoxes, $9 million spent trying to stay sober, 14 surgeries, an exploded colon and 9 months with a colostomy bag.
“Addiction has ruined my life so much it’s not funny,” he wrote. “I’ll always have the insides of a ninety-year-old man… the scars… my stomach looks like a topographical map of China.”
I knew that touching alcohol or drugs could only end one way.
“I have no sobriety left,” he said. “This is going to kill me.”
He knew it. Maybe that’s why he alienated so many people.
“Angry and cruel,” a friend said of Perry’s behavior in his final days.
He allegedly threw a coffee table at his fiancée, Molly Hurwitz, when she confronted him about cheating with a 19-year-old on Raya and broke off their engagement.
Perry described his longtime sober companion, a woman named Morgan Moses, as “the nicest person in the world.” He reportedly pushed her against a wall and then onto a bed.
Not to mention the young girls Perry asked to deliver drugs to, the nurse who quit her profession after working with him, or the ex-girlfriend who threatened to sue him for addicting her to drugs and who was only silenced by a settlement and a confidentiality agreement.
Or of allegedly throwing objects and punching walls in fits of rage, or telling terrified women in his life, “If I wanted to hurt you, I would have.”
It’s clear that Perry had problems with women. He also hated himself.
“Most of the time I have these nagging thoughts,” she wrote. “I’m not enough, I don’t matter, I’m too needy… I need love, but I don’t trust it. If I put down my game, my Chandler, and show you who I really am, you might notice me, but worse, you might notice me and leave me… So I’ll leave you first.”
Perry would have turned 55 on Monday. It’s entirely possible that he wanted to die young, or at least knew he would, leaving before he did more harm — to others, perhaps, but also to himself and his legacy.
He allegedly threw a coffee table at his fiancée, Molly Hurwitz (pictured), when she confronted him about cheating on her with a 19-year-old on Raya and broke off their engagement. He is also said to have pushed his sober companion against a wall and then onto a bed.
It’s quite possible that he wanted to die young, or at least knew he would, leaving before he did more harm – to others, perhaps, but also to himself and his legacy. (Pictured: with Morgan Moses.)
He never seemed to have grown beyond ‘Chandler’, beyond ‘Friends’, beyond imagining himself as Batman: ‘Mattman’ was his preferred nickname.
He never got over his teenage longing for wealth and celebrity as the ultimate drug.
“I was pretty sure that fame would change everything,” he wrote, “and I craved it more than anyone else on the face of the planet. necessary It was the only thing that could fix me. I was sure of it.
Fame and the wealth that came with it were probably the worst things that could have happened to Perry.
That’s how he got away with being a drunken, drug-addled mess on ‘Friends,’ admitting to drinking at least 16 drinks a day while on set, only sober, he claims, for one season.
His co-star Jennifer Aniston, according to her memoir, confronted him about it.
“We can smell it,” he told her. His tone was so unintelligible during one table read that the entire cast was forced to intervene. But “Friends” was such a goldmine that it’s easy to imagine network executives not willing to pull Perry off set, even temporarily.
“I’d show up with a terrible hangover,” Perry told Diane Sawyer in 2022. “Shivering and terribly hungover.”
But the show must go on, right?
After Friends, Perry found another show to perform: that of a finally clean and grounded megastar who was there simply to help.
He claimed to have been sober for 18 months while promoting his memoir, selling a lie that was perhaps his last, biggest high.
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