The Death of Matthew Perry | Five Arrested

True Crime Society

True Crime, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 29 August 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Celebrity Matthew Perry was very open about his decades-long struggle with addiction. He estimated that over the years, he had spent around $9m on rehab costs. At one point during his addiction, he was in a coma and on life-support for two weeks.

In 2023, Matthew seemed to be doing well. Even some of his close friends believed he was sober. Matthew had been getting legal ketamine treatment for his depression and his doctor thought that it was working well.

At some point in September 2023, things changed Matthew. He worked with his assistant of 25 years, Kenneth Iwamasa, to begin obtaining more ketamine illegally. They got the drugs from doctors and also from a drug dealer known as the ‘Ketamine Queen.’ Within weeks, Matthew had spent $55k on the drug,

On October 28, 2023, Matthew told Kenneth to ‘shoot me up with a big one.’ Kenneth did so and he then left to run errands. When he returned to Matthew’s home, he found the celebrity face down in his jacuzzi. Paramedics were called and Matthew was declared dead at the age of 54.

Five people have recently been arrested and charged in connection with Matthew’s death. His assistant is facing a possible sentence of 15 years in prison.

In this episode of the True Crime Society Podcast, we discuss the tragic death of Matthew Perry. Who is to blame?

Read our blog for this case - https://truecrimesocietyblog.com/2024/08/20/the-tragic-death-of-matthew-perry-who-is-to-blame/

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0:00.0	The True Crime Society podcast contains adult themes in violence and is not intended for all audiences.
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0:14.3	Thank you. What's up guys? Welcome back to another episode of the True Crime Society
0:34.9	podcast with Stephanie and Olivia and Peep is right here in my lap. She's being
0:40.0	a little moody so we'll see how it goes with her. It is August 22nd, 2024 right now, 714 PM.
0:48.7	It's a little cloudy here in New York, it's getting a little cooler, like the fall we were talking about last
0:54.7	episode I think but it's definitely gonna get hotter again as I was saying I'm
1:01.2	going to the fair this weekend on Saturday and it's like the one thing
1:05.9	Getting me through this shitty week. I'm like I get to go to the fun affair and have good snacks and have drinks and walk around and look at like corny things like airbrush
1:17.5	t-shirts and leather belts with crazy designs on them. It's very country, I guess you could say. It's fun
1:27.5	them. The weather here is next level amazing. Like we have a few days coming up
1:32.2	next week in the 80s and it's still winter here like 80s so it's like late 20s
1:36.4	Celsius so still winter but it's so so so nice like I'm looking at the window now there isn't a cloud in the
1:42.0	sky it's blue it's
1:43.2	kind of still crisp in the mornings but warm even because the kids here at
1:47.3	schools wear uniforms so we got an email saying that the kids can wear their summer
1:52.0	uniforms from now on which is early
1:54.0	because it's going to be so hot so it's very exciting.
1:57.8	Nice I feel like this is when when the seasons change our weather gets the closest it'll ever be to be similar.
2:05.0	Otherwise we're just opposites.
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