The last words of Matthew Perry have been made public a year after he died. What did he say before he died?

The last words of Matthew Perry have been made public a year after he died. What did he say before he died?

His assistant was the last person to see him alive, and he has since shared what he said in his last moments. At first, the actor’s death was thought to have been an accident. However, shocking new evidence suggests otherwise, which led to several arrests.

Famous for playing Chandler Bing on NBC’s “Friends,” Matthew Perry was a well-liked TV star. Besides “Friends,” he was in “Ally McBeal” and was nominated for an Emmy for his work on “The West Wing” and “The Ron Clark Story.”

Even though Perry had a successful career, he had a lot of problems in his personal life, like depression and drug abuse, which he talked about openly his whole life.

Perry wrote in his autobiography, “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing,” about how these problems began and how they almost killed him more than once.

Perry was honest about his battle with addiction in an interview with ABC in October 2022. As he talked about how his addiction was always there, “your disease is just outside doing one-arm push-ups, just waiting, just waiting for you, just waiting to get you alone, because alone, you lose to the disease,”

In that time, Perry had been to at least 15 rehabs, 6,000 AA meetings, and 30 years of therapy. He had spent half of his life in treatment or sober living facilities.

He also said that he had been through detox at least 65 times and lived through 14 surgeries after a medical emergency years earlier that almost killed him. He talked about a scary time when his colon burst and needed surgery right away.

A machine called ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) was used to help me breathe. Any doctor will tell you that an ECMO machine is a last-ditch effort. The last thing you do before someone dies is put them on an ECMO machine. That night, five people were put on one, and I was the only one who lived, Perry said.

His fall began in 2000, when he was at the height of his fame as the lead in “Friends.” He shut himself off for months and turned to drug dealers during this time.

Perry started using prescription drugs after getting hurt while filming “Fools Rush In,” the movie he was in with Salma Hayek. Things quickly got worse, and 40 more Vicodin pills were sent to his house.

Perry became more dependent on pills because he thought they would help him control his drinking. Eventually, he became so dependent that he took about 12 pills every day.

The famous person finally tried to quit all together, but his body had become so used to the drugs that he needed even more pills to deal with the withdrawal symptoms.

As his addiction got worse, he started taking 55 Vicodin pills every day. Perry said that without the pills, he was afraid he would get very sick, which is how he got to that point.

He even went to multiple doctors and faked migraines to get more pills. The actor starred in “17 Again” with Zac Efron. He also said that he went to open houses on Sundays to steal any medicine he could find.

Perry told the interviewer in 2022 that he was in a good place, but he tragically died in 2023 in what was thought to be a drowning accident.

Perry died in a terrible accident in the morning of October 28, 2023. He had been active earlier that day by playing pickleball for two hours before going back to his home in the Los Angeles area.

When Perry got home in the morning, he sent his assistant on a task. When the assistant came back about two hours later, he found the star not responding and called 911 right away.

First responders were sent to the scene because someone had had a cardiac arrest. Law enforcement sources said Perry was found in his home jacuzzi, where it looked like he had drowned.

There were no drugs found at the scene, and the police report says there was no foul play. It wasn’t clear at the time if Perry’s activities before he died had anything to do with the reason he died.

Two months after he died, though, an investigation showed what might have caused his death. In May 2024, the Los Angeles Police Department made the autopsy report public.

The autopsy on December 15, 2023, showed that Perry died from the “acute effects of ketamine,” which the LAPD reported on X.

The movie star had been sober for 19 months before he died, according to the autopsy report from the Los Angeles County Coroner. Perry had also been getting ketamine infusion therapy, and his last session was “one and a half weeks before” he died, according to the report.

The coroner did say, though, that the ketamine that was in his body when he died could not have come from the infusion therapy because ketamine has a half-life of three to four hours or less.

Ketamine is a “dissociative anesthetic with hallucinogenic effects,” according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. It can “distort perception of sight and sound, create a sense of disconnection, and induce sedation, immobility, pain relief, and amnesia.”

After an autopsy, it was found that Perry died from the strong effects of the drug. Some other things that may have contributed are drowning, coronary artery disease, and the effects of buprenorphine, a drug used to treat opioid use disorder. His death was then thought to have been an accident.

A report from the coroner also said that he died from a “unknown route of drug intake.” Prescription drugs and loose pills were found in Perry’s house, but “none reported near the pool” and “no drugs found adjacent to the pool” were written in the autopsy report.

The LAPD, along with the DEA and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, intensified their investigation into Perry’s death after receiving these results from the Medical Examiner.

When police finally found evidence of foul play, the investigation into the death of the Los Angeles resident took a big turn. This discovery made the case go in a new direction, and on August 15, 2024, several suspects were arrested.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office said that a licensed doctor and a man from San Fernando Valley who is suspected of selling drugs were arrested in connection with Perry’s death. There are charges against five people, including two doctors, for giving ketamine to the actor in the weeks before he died.

People like Dr. Salvador Plasencia, also known as “Dr. P,” and Jasveen Sangha, who is known as “The Ketamine Queen,” are being charged. People say that Sangha gave Perry the ketamine that killed him. He is now facing several charges, including conspiracy and drug distribution.

Plasencia, on the other hand, is accused of giving out ketamine and tampering with evidence. In connection with Perry’s death, three more people have also been charged.

Erik Fleming, 54, admitted to giving 50 vials of ketamine to Perry’s assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa, just days before the actor died. He pleaded guilty to providing the ketamine that killed the celebrity.

Iwamasa, 59, also pleaded guilty and said he injected ketamine into Perry several times, including the day he died. The 54-year-old San Diego doctor, Dr. Mark Chavez, agreed to plead guilty and said he sold ketamine to Dr. Salvador Plasencia and got more by lying.

Perry was often injected with large amounts of ketamine by Dr. Plasencia, who even did the injections at the star’s home. Court records show that Plasencia called Perry names in a text message to Dr. Mark Chavez. They said things like, “I wonder how much this jerk will pay” and “Let’s find out.”

Plasencia is being charged with many things, such as conspiracy to distribute ketamine, distribution of ketamine that caused death, possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, and making false records during a federal investigation. He has said he is not guilty of everything.

Authorities say that these defendants put making money ahead of Perry’s health, which led to his tragic death. Legal experts say that the case shows how determined police are to catch people selling dangerous drugs.