Crime
Matthew Perry’s Doctor Sentenced to 2 1/2 Years in Prison After Actor’s Parents Penned Emotional Letters to Judge
Matthew Perry‘s family wrote emotional letters to the judge as the people facing prison time in connection with their son’s death prepared to be sentenced.
“How do you measure grief? Can you possibly provide any rational accounting?” Suzanne Perry and Keith Morrison — Perry’s mother and step-father — began their letter, which was filed Wednesday, December 3, and obtained by National Enquirer. “The bottom falling out? Yes, that. Here was a life so entwined with ours and held aloft sometimes with duct tape and baling wire, with anything that might keep that big terrible thing from killing our first-born son, and our hearts with him.”
“And then those greedy jackals come out of the dark, and all the efforts is for naught; it all crashes down,” their letter continued.
“There is a confusion of emotions. Anger seethes away down deep, whether you want it to or not. And there’s the playing of unalterable events, over and over and over. As if it could make any difference now,” the letter added.
Perry’s father, John Perry, and step-mother Debbie Perry also released a victim statement, in which they wrote, “You don’t deserve to hear our feelings.”
“Matthew’s recovery counted on you saying NO. Your motives? I can’t imagine. A doctor whose life is devoted to helping people? What ever were you thinking?” their statement, obtained by National Enquirer, continued. “This branch of the Perry family, who came over on the Mayflower, has ended now.”
The Friends alum passed away at his home in Pacific Palisades, California, on October 28, 2023, at age 54. His cause of death was later determined to be the acute effects of ketamine.
Dr. Salvador Plasencia — who pleaded guilty in July to four counts of distribution of ketamine — was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for his crime on Wednesday, December 3.
In addition to Plasencia, “Ketamine Queen” Jazveen Sangha pleaded guilty in September to one count of maintaining a drug-involved premises, three counts of distribution of ketamine, and one count of distribution of ketamine resulting in death or serious bodily injury.
Sangha is scheduled to be sentenced on December 10 and faces up to 65 years in prison.
