Matthew Perry had multiple ketamine shots on day he died, assistant says

The Friends actor Matthew Perry ordered his live-in personal assistant to give him regular intravenous doses of ketamine on the day of his death last year, according to a statement by the assistant to investigators.

- Edward Helmore

The actor, who was found drowned in a hot tub at his Los Angeles home last October, asked his assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa, to give him a dose at 8.30am, according to court papers.

Four hours later, while he watched a movie at his home, he asked Iwamasa to give him another shot. Just 40 minutes after that, Perry directed him to give him a larger dose.

"Shoot me up with a big one," Perry told Iwamasa, and directed him to get the hot tub ready. The assistant fixed Perry with the dose and left the home to run errands, the papers say. When he returned, Perry was face-down in the water.

An autopsy report by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner later recorded that Perry, 54, had died of "acute effects of ketamine" and that he had drowned in "the heated end of his pool".