The doctor who sold Matthew Perry ketamine before his death is about to be sentenced

To quote the immortal Chandler Bing: could this be any more heartbreaking?

Matthew Perry’s parents are calling out the “greedy jackals” who killed their son. The famous Friends actor and proud Ontarian died of an accidental ketamine overdose in October of 2023. Salvador Plasencia, the doctor who admits to injecting Perry with liquid ketamine in the weeks leading up to his death as well as providing him with an additional supply for home use, pleaded guilty in July to four counts of distributing ketamine. Now it’s time for his sentencing, and Perry’s bereaved family members are unleashing their grief in victim impact letters.

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Back when Perry’s mom, Suzanne Morrison, got together with Perry’s stepfather, Keith Morrison (of Dateline NBC fame), Suzanne warned her new beau that nobody would ever come between her and her son. “She certainly didn’t expect that addiction would do that very thing, or that he’d be hastened to an early death by the very people he trusted,” Keith wrote in their joint letter, calling Plasencia “among the most culpable of all.”

The Morrisons continued: “Here was a life so entwined with ours and held aloft sometimes with duct tape and bailing 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 effort is for naught; it all crashes down.”

Perry’s father and stepmother, John and Debbie Perry, also provided a written statement, saying that Plasencia “didn’t deserve” to hear their feelings. Instead they pointed the finger: “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? How long did you possibly see supplying Matthew countless doses without his death to eventually follow? Did you care? Did you think? How many more people have you harmed that we don’t know about? We ask the court to give you plenty of time to think about your actions by extending your sentence beyond the mandatory time.”

Plasencia will be the first doctor associated with Perry’s death to be sentenced. He faces a maximum of 40 years—10 years for each count of distribution he pleaded guilty to. The government has recommended 36 months.

Prosecutors allege that Plasencia once said to a co-conspirator, about Perry, “I wonder how much this moron will pay?” Now we’re left wondering the same.