The last known words Matthew Perry were spoken to his assistant, who has now pleaded guilty to his role in the actor’s ketamine death.
Shoot me up with a big one,” the Friends star told Kenneth Iwamasa, per a plea agreement with federal authorities in which Iwamasa pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute ketamine causing death.
The Department of Justice said in a release that Iwamasa, who was not medically trained to administer ketaminewas determined to be “acute effects of ketamine,” an autopsy revealed last December.
charged with drug-related offenses in connection with Perry’s death. The final injection was the third of the day administered to Perry by Iwamasa, according to the assistant’s plea agreement.
Federal authorities alleged in a press release that the people charged after Perry’s death exploited his addiction for their own financial gain despite knowing had recovered before he relapsed months prior to his death, per the DOJ.