Matthew Perry's family trusted his assistant to help keep him sober. He instead helped him overdose
Suzanne Morrison says Kenneth Iwamasa betrayed the family’s trust and repeatedly injected Perry with ketamine, including on the day he died.
- On Wednesday, Suzanne Morrison delivered an emotional victim impact statement at Kenneth Iwamasa's sentencing hearing, condemning her son Matthew Perry's former assistant for his role in the fatal ketamine supply that killed the actor in October 2023.
- Suzanne Morrison insisted her family "trusted a man without a conscience" for 25 years, claiming Iwamasa betrayed his role as a "companion and guardian in his fight against addiction" by injecting the actor with drugs.
- Seeking to maintain closeness after Matthew's death, Iwamasa allegedly acted as a "good guy" by drawing maps to the cemetery and sending songs, while secretly enabling the illegal drug use that killed him.
- Prosecutors recommended a 41-month prison term for Iwamasa, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute ketamine, with his formal sentencing hearing scheduled for May 27 in Los Angeles.
- While the investigation led to multiple convictions including "Ketamine Queen" Jasveen Sangha, Suzanne Morrison concluded that "nothing takes this pain away, nor will it, for as long as I live.
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Slain actor Matthew Perry’s family makes disturbing discovery about his death
Matthew Perry paid Kenneth Iwamasa $150,000 a year to be his live-in personal assistant. His role for the “Friends” star would expand to drug messenger, addiction enabler and de facto doctor, according to court filings. Iwamasa injected Perry with the doses of ketamine that would prove fatal on Oct. 28, 2023, and then left the actor to run errands. He returned to find Perry dead in the Jacuzzi. The ex-assistant became the first to reach a plea d…
Matthew Perry’s family trusted his assistant to help keep him sober. He instead helped him overdose
Matthew Perry paid Kenneth Iwamasa $150,000 a year to be his live-in personal assistant. His role for the “Friends” star would expand to drug messenger, addiction enabler and de facto doctor, according to court filings.
A few days after the trial of Kenneth Iwamasa, a former personal assistant of Matthew Perry, the actor's family presented strong statements to the court holding him responsible for having betrayed the trust placed in him during Perry's fight against addictions.
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Matthew Perry's family trusted his assistant to help keep him sober. He instead helped him overdose
Matthew Perry's assistant is set to become the last defendant sentenced in the investigation of the drug death of the “Friends” star. Perry's family wrote letters to the judge saying they had known Kenneth Iwamasa for decades. They were pleased…
Only a few weeks after the conviction of producer Erik Fleming, another person involved in Matthew Perry's death investigation will know his sentence. On this occasion, Suzanne Morrison, the mother of the American actor, described the grief and anger she felt at the time of her death.
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