Behind Matthew Perry’s smile, the unforgettable Chandler Bing in Friends, was a long battle against addictions. It is a vulnerability that some would have exploited, leading to his death in October 2023. On Wednesday, April 8, 2026, the American justice system ruled as reported by Midi Libre. Jasveen Sangha, nicknamed the “queen of ketamine,” was sentenced to 15 years in prison by a Californian court. This drug trafficker was one of five people pursued in the case related to the actor’s death. At 54 years old, Matthew Perry was found unconscious in his jacuzzi.
The investigation revealed that he received 27 ketamine injections in the three days leading up to his death. According to federal prosecutor Martin Estrada, the accused clearly took advantage of his vulnerability. He stated, “These accused individuals took advantage of Mr. Perry’s addiction problems to enrich themselves.” Among those implicated are two doctors, Salvador Plasencia and Mark Chavez, the latter pleading guilty, as well as Erik Fleming, an acquaintance of the actor, and his assistant Kenneth Iwamasa, responsible for administering the doses.
###Exploitation of Matthew Perry’s Addiction
At the heart of the matter? Jasveen Sangha is accused of providing the substances that caused the tragedy. Initially, she tried to disassociate herself, even asking an intermediary to erase the traces of their exchanges after the actor’s death, before finally pleading guilty in August 2025. Her involvement does not stop there. As reported by People, she admitted to selling ketamine to a 33-year-old man in 2019, who also died of an overdose a few hours later. In court, Matthew Perry’s family expressed deep pain. In a statement relayed by People, his stepmother called for an exemplary punishment, one that would “sentence this woman without mercy to the maximum prison term so that she cannot harm other families like ours.”
###Matthew Perry Facing the Difficulty of Battling His Demons
She also described the devastating consequences of this loss. “The suffering you have inflicted on hundreds, even thousands of people, is irreversible […] There is no more joy. No light at the window. They will not come back,” she said emotionally before directly accusing the trafficker: “It is you who are responsible for all of this. You, who have enough business sense to make money, you chose the only solution that harms people.”
While the public remembers a funny and endearing character, Matthew Perry himself had told his demons in his autobiography “Friends, My Loves, and This Terrible Thing,” published in 2022. Addicted to painkillers and alcohol, he had long tried to regain control, but his vulnerabilities, evident in the physical transformations of his character on screen, never fully disappeared. The conviction of Jasveen Sangha brings a semblance of justice, even if it does not heal the wounds left by the actor’s death.
