The doctor accused of supplying the ketamine that killed Matthew Perry realized the actor could die when he saw him ‘freeze up’ from an overdose just days before his death, prosecutors have claimed.
The Friends actor was ingesting large doses of the potent tranquillizer in the weeks before his death in October of last year. Although Dr. Salvador Plascencia was licensed to prescribe and administer it, he required assistance from another doctor to keep up with the patient’s intake.
Plascencia, 42, showed contempt for Perry as his dependency spiralled asking a crooked colleague ‘I wonder how much this moron will pay’, it is alleged.
But when the actor had a seizure after an overdose only 16 days before he passed away, he realised his life was in danger.
‘Let’s not do that again,’ he told Perry’s assistant nervously.
The startling information became public on Thursday when Plascencia and four other suspected co-conspirators were taken into custody as a result of a grand jury indictment.
Perry was found unresponsive in the hot tub of his LA home on October 28 by his live-in assistant Kenneth Iwamasa. His cause of death was later determined to be ‘the acute effects of ketamine’.
Iwamasa has since admitted being the one who administered the fatal doses to the actor, after being trained how to deliver them by Plascencia.
On October 4 Iwamasa reported that he had successfully injected Perry, noting that he ‘found the sweet spot but trying different places led to running out’ of ketamine.
The affidavit states that Iwamasa gave Perry 27 ketamine shots in only five days and that Perry spent $55,000 on ketamine provided by Plascencia in the two months before his death.
As Plascencia hurried to carry out Perry’s directions, San Diego physician Mark Chavez, 54, acknowledged stealing supplies from his clinic by writing fictitious prescriptions.
According to the documents, Plascenica once collaborated with Chavez to charge Perry $2,000 for a $12 vial of ketamine, as Perry grew more and more anxious to obtain the medication.
Iwamasa would relay Perry’s requests in coded language, referring to bottles of ketamine as ‘Dr Pepper’, ‘cans’, and ‘bots’ via encrypted messaging apps.
At one point he asked if he could pay with ‘something besides cash’ because ‘it’s hard to get to the bank on the fly with all that’s going on which happens so fast now.’
But the doctors struggled to keep up with demand and Iwamasa turned to a friend of the actor, Eric Fleming, 54, to source extra supplies.
He in turn went to Hollywood’s alleged ‘Ketamine Queen’ Jasveen Sangha, 41, telling Iwamasa ‘She only deals with high-end and celebs. If it were not great stuff she’d lose her business.’
Sangha sold dozens of vials of the drug to Iwamasa via Fleming and was so pleased with the size of his orders that she threw in some lollipops made of ketamine as an ‘add-on’.
But she was well aware of the drug’s risks, prosecutors claim, after allegedly selling it to client Cody McLaury, just hours before his overdose death in 2019.
‘The ketamine you sold my brother killed him,’ a furious relative told her in a text message. ‘It’s listed as the cause of death.’
Originally, Iwamasa had depended on Plascencia to provide injections to Perry during sessions that were typically held at Perry’s house.
But on October 10 the three men met at a car lot in Long Beach where Plascencia injected Perry inside a parked car.
After Perry’s almost deadly overdose two days later, Plascencia issued a warning, but before he left, he gave Iwamasa more bottles.
As the assistant’s expertise developed, Iwamasa was injecting Perry up to six times a day before finding him dead in his hot tub on October 28.
This level of detective work normally only happens for the rich and famous, but in this case, eliminating major suppliers helps the general public as well, and getting any drug dealer off the streets is a good thing, and if they’re selling to celebrities, then they’re probably selling to many other people as well.
The larger the supply the larger the supplier, and what was going on here behind the scenes is unbelievable, and these kinds of people are just degenerates and must be deeply disturbed.
Drugs are a big problem, wherever you go, or wherever you live, and it’s a very sad ending because many people just can’t cope with being on the earth’s plane and subconsciously have a death wish.
Individuals struggling with addiction never feel in control of anything and are easily manipulated due to their lack of cognitive ability. Without a doubt, these individuals exploited Matthew Perry!
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