Matthew Perry's sad last words before his death are revealed

Matthew Perry's His last words before he died from the “acute effects of ketamine” and was found in his hot tub were released.

Recently released court documents obtained by NBC News and was released on Friday, August 16. It details that Perry allegedly asked his assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa, three times for help in administering the drug.

Regarding the drug, the Friends The star, who died in October 2023 at the age of 54, asked Iwamasa to “give him a big injection.”

Iwamasa was one of five people facing federal charges in the investigation into the actor's death, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced Thursday, August 15.

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Mike Pont/WireImage Five people have been charged in connection with the investigation into the death of Friends actor Matthew Perry, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced Thursday, August 15. An autopsy revealed that Perry died on October 28, 2023 from the “acute effects of ketamine.” His personal assistant Kenneth Iwamasa and […]

An autopsy revealed that Perry died on October 28, 2023 from the “acute effects of ketamine.” In addition to Iwamasa, Jasveen Sangha (also known as “the Ketamine Queen”), Mark Chavez, Salvador Plasencia and Erik Fleming were also charged.

Iwamasa, Perry's personal assistant who lived with him, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to fatally sell ketamine.

On the day of Perry's death, Iwamasa administered three doses of ketamine to the actor, starting with a first dose at 8:30 a.m. and a second four hours later. He said he administered the third dose just 40 minutes later, before preparing the hot tub for Perry and letting the actor run errands. When Iwamasa returned home, he found Perry unconscious in the hot tub.

While prosecutors claim that these three injections led to Perry's death, Iwamasa claimed he administered a total of 27 injections in the last five days of Perry's life. Iwamasa has no medical training and was following Plasencia's orders.

Friends and family were “surprised” and “sad” by Iwamasa’s arrest, We weekly reported on Thursday, August 15th.

“Matthew had secrets,” a source close to Matthew told exclusively We weekly“It wouldn't shock me if Kenny was the only one who knew how bad it really is.”

While Perry may not have spoken openly about the severity of his addiction immediately before his death, he spoke openly about his past problems in his memoirs Friends, lovers and the big, terrible thing.

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“Ketamine was a very popular street drug in the 1980s. Today there is a synthetic form of it,” he wrote in his 2022 book.

Perry explained that he was “dissociating” and taking a prescribed ketamine treatment “to relieve the pain and combat the depression.”

The actor added: “My name is all over it – they might as well have called it 'Matty'. It was something different, and anything different is good.”