Revelations on doctors' shady dealings in Matthew Perry case emerge
After the arrests resulting from the investigation into the death of Matthew Perry, more shocking revelations are appearing in the media. Recently, one of the services published the content of the text messages exchanged by the doctors who were filling the actor with ketamine.
Matthew Perry openly talked about his strong addiction to opioids and ketamine. In the book published a year before his death, he described his years-long, desperate fight with his demons. In "Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing," we read about the lengths he went to to obtain drugs or medication. For instance, he would view houses for sale, pretending to be interested, but immediately head to someone’s bathroom, looking for a medicine cabinet.
Ultimately, he lost the decades-long battle and was found dead in his pool on 28 October of last year. Now, the investigation is ongoing, and several people have been detained, including his assistant and the doctors accused of prescribing, supplying, and administering ketamine to the actor.
Dr. Mark Chavez and Dr. Salvador Plasencia arrested
Us Weekly obtained the content of the messages the actor's doctors exchanged. In September, Plasencia wrote to Chavez that visiting Perry's house was like a "bad movie." In subsequent messages they exchanged, the medics wrote: "If today goes well, we may have repeat business," "Let’s do everything we can to make it happen." In October, the month of Matthew’s death, they wrote that it would be best if "Perry didn’t look for it elsewhere" so they could be the exclusive suppliers of the drug that was killing the star.
The actor’s assistant, who administered the injections, Kenneth "Kenny" Iwamasa, as well as Jasveen Sangha, nicknamed the "Ketamine Queen," and Erik Fleming, a former filmmaker who later became one of the actor’s dealers, are also in custody.
