The personal assistant who injected Matthew Perry with ketamine before his death was sentenced to prison on Wednesday. Kenneth Iwamasa, 61, received a three-year, five-month federal sentence after pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute ketamine causing death.
Prosecutors say Iwamasa gave Perry more than 25 shots in the days before his 2023 death in a hot tub, including at least three on the day he died. On his final day, Perry allegedly told Iwamasa: "Shoot me up with a big one."
Perry's mother, Suzanne Morrison, expressed the family's betrayal: "We trusted a man without a conscience, and my son paid the price."
Iwamasa's defense argued he was a "hired hand" unable to say no to his wealthy boss.
Iwamasa is the fifth person sentenced in connection with Perry's death. Others include doctors Salvador Plasencia and Mark Chavez, middleman Erik Fleming, and dealer Jasveen Sangha, dubbed "The Ketamine Queen."
Perry, who played Chandler Bing on Friends, had struggled with addiction for decades. He died at 54 during supervised ketamine therapy for depression.