"You caused this."
Matthew Perry was a beloved American-Canadian actor who died on October 28, 2023.
Perry passed away due to a drug overdose. He was 54 years old.
Following his death, a woman named Jasveen Sangha, also known as ‘The Ketamine Queen’, was charged with selling drugs that led to Perry’s demise.
After pleading guilty to the crime in September 2025, Sangha was sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment on April 8, 2026.
Sangha’s charges included one count of distributing ketamine resulting in death or bodily injury.
She is an American-British dual-national. Prosecutors described her home as a “drug-selling emporium”.
Matthew Perry’s stepmother, Debbie Perry, requested that the judge to give Sangha the maximum prison sentence.
In a victim impact statement, Debbie said: “You caused this. You who have talent for business enough to make money, chose the one way that hurts people.
“Please give this heartless woman the maximum prison sentence so she won’t be able to hurt other families like ours.”
Sangha’s plea agreement also led her to plead guilty to selling ketamine to Cody McLaury, a man who passed away in August 2019.
McLaury died of an overdose just hours after purchasing drugs from Sangha.
Sangha’s friends and family submitted multiple letters to the court in her support.
‘The Ketamine Queen’ is one of five people alleged to have supplied Perry with ketamine.
The other four people also pled guilty to charges in this case.
In December 2025, Dr Salvador Plasencia was sentenced to 30 months in prison.
The same month, Dr Mark Chavez was given eight months of home detention and three years of supervised release.
Perry’s live-in assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa, who helped purchase and inject him with ketamine, is due to be sentenced in April 2026.
However, his legal team has asked for a postponement.
Meanwhile, Eric Fleming who sold ketamine from Sangha to Perry, is scheduled to be sentenced in June 2026.
Matthew Perry was popular for playing Chandler Bing in the classic sitcom Friends.
He played the role for the show’s entire run, from 1994 to 2004.
Perry openly spoke about his addictions to drugs and alcohol in his lifetime, admitting that he could not remember the first three seasons of Friends.
In 2022, he said: “I didn’t watch the show, and haven’t watched the show, because I could go, ‘Drinking, opiates, drinking, cocaine’.
“I could tell season by season, by how I looked. That’s why I don’t want to watch it, because that’s what I see.
“I think I’m going to start to watch it because it’s been an incredible thing to watch it touch the hearts of different generations.”
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