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🗓️ 2 August 2025
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In his 2022 memoir, "Friends, Lovers, and the Big, Terrible Thing," Matthew Perry claimed to have been to rehab 15 times, detoxed 65 times, and spent about $7 to $9 million trying to get sober.
Two years after his near-death experience, Matthew Perry goes to a Rehab facility in Switzerland. He admitted to faking pain symptoms to get Oxycontin during COVID. He was also getting daily Ketamine infusions. Ultimately it was Ketamine that killed him.
On October 28, Matthew Perry went to his country club to play a game of Pickleball with friends. Perry returned to his home after the game and was seen by his assistant, who was leaving the house to run errands. At 4 p.m., the assistant returned home and found Perry floating face down in the heated end of the pool.
Paramedics pulled Perry out of the pool and pronounced him dead at the scene.
Jasveen Sangha, known as the "Ketamine Queen," sold the drug involved in Matthew Perry's death. She remains in custody. Court documents reveal the close ties between Sangha, drug dealer Eric Fleming, and Perry's assistant Kenneth Iwamasa. Iwamasa told Fleming he "cleaned up the scene" by disposing of ketamine vials and syringes and "deleted everything."
Fleming then informed Sangha that he believed they were protected since he never dealt with Perry directly, only through Iwamasa, who would be considered Perry's "enabler." In their communications, Sangha and Fleming refer to Perry using the code name "Chandler," Now the doctor who called Perry a moron, who's directly implicated in Perry’s ketamine overdose, Dr. Salvador Plasencia, admits his guilt in Perry's death.
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0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
0:04.7 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
0:11.0 | The death of Friends superstar Matthew Perry has reverberations that continue up until even now. |
0:21.6 | The world stunned when Matthew Perry found dead at his own home. |
0:27.6 | Why, an OD of ketamine. |
0:31.6 | In the last days, a stunning guilty plea. |
0:35.6 | I'm Nancy Grace. This is crime stories. I want to thank you for being |
0:39.9 | with us. That's right. In the last days, a formerly renowned doctor pleads guilty, a doctor who was |
0:49.2 | the primary target in the investigation of the OD of Matthew Perry pleads guilty to supplying |
0:58.3 | Perry with ketamine despite knowing the friend's star was a struggling addict. |
1:07.9 | Dr. Salvador Placincia, the fourth of five people charged in Perry's death, pleads guilty. |
1:16.9 | He and another, a woman who prosecutors say was a major ketamine dealer, faced the most serious |
1:23.9 | charges after Perry discovered dead in the hot tub of his LA home. |
1:30.3 | Placincia stands next to his lawyer in court and says guilty four times for four different |
1:38.3 | counts in front of Judge Sherylum P. Garnett in federal court. |
1:43.3 | Placincia 43 was set to go to trial until the doctor just agreed to plead guilty. |
1:52.1 | Now, this is according to a signed document we got our mitts on that was filed in federal court in L.A. |
1:59.7 | While these charges can carry up to 40 years behind bars, trust me, he's going to be sentenced |
2:07.6 | to a lot less. How did the whole thing unfold? The same way I like to start every jury trial. |
2:18.3 | Let me start with the 911 call. |
2:22.3 | Listen. |
2:23.3 | Enter 23, rest of 23. |
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