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HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRR

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I got a phone call.
Matthew Perry had been found dead.

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He'd drowned in his Jacuzzi.

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This could not be true.
How could this possibly be true?

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I was just in... utter shock.

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He was such a heart-warming,
kind, uplifting person

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that I feel like everyone
could just turn on the TV

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and feel immediately
comforted by him.

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I flashed back on that young man

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who would come bounding over
on the set like a big puppy dog.

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That's always how I remember him.

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He's one of very few people
in Hollywood

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to have ever reached
that level of success and acclaim.

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OVERLAPPING CHATTER

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But I genuinely don't think
a lot of people

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realise what fame really is.

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One of the most dangerous parts
of fame

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is all of your worst instincts
are going to be catered to...

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..and that is a really
dangerous place to be.

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Tragically, Mr Perry fell back
into addiction issues.

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Mr Perry was getting
his ketamine illegally.

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How'd he get it?
Who was giving it to him?

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Following Mr Perry's death,
law enforcement, my office,

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began an in-depth,
wide-ranging investigation.

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SIRENS BLARE

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There was just such a degree
of almost disdain for Mr Perry.

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And these are doctors.

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It's sickening, actually.

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When people
cause the death of others,

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there needs to be accountability.

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We're talking about ketamine.

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We're talking
about drug rings in LA.

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And then obviously,
it spiralled out of control.

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Someone who's seen him nearly die

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and then gone back
and preyed on him for money.

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REPORTER: An investigation into
exactly how Matthew Perry died

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is still ongoing,

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and it may be weeks before we know
an official cause of death.

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WOMAN: He sent his assistant
out to do some errands,

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and when they came back,
they found Matthew unconscious,

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where they immediately called 911.

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KATY: I got a phone call.

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I got in the car,
drove up Pacific Coast Highway.

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It's quite far up, the house.

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I think it was nine,
ten o'clock at night,

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by the time I got up there.

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And we were met
with the road cordoned off,

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a lot of police activity.

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It honestly was a bit of a circus.

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REPORTER: Reports say his death
comes after some physical activity

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this morning,
two hours of pickleball,

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and that his assistant discovered
his body in the hot tub.

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I heard about Matthew Perry's death.

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This is something
that was very tragic.

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It was very sad for our community.

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So initially,
Los Angeles Police Department,

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they investigated,
preserved the scene

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to make sure
they could follow every lead.

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The first people to get there
are your patrol units.

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He was determined to be dead
on arrival.

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It could be an accident,
could be intentional,

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could be an overdose,
could be a suicide.

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There's all these variables

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detectives need to take
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to determine whether or not
there's any foul play.

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When I had first read
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had this book coming out,
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"Oh, that sounds like it's
going to be really interesting."

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In the book, Friends, Lovers,
And The Big Terrible Thing,

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the "big terrible thing" part
was his addiction.

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Friends, Lovers,
And The Big Terrible Thing.

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You start with a thunderclap.

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"Hi, my name is Matthew,

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"although you may know me
by another name.

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"My friends call me Matty,
and I should be dead."

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Yeah, that's definitely true.

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With the Diane Sawyer interview,

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I remember the picture you get
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who's leading
an extraordinarily solitary life.

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MATTHEW: 'I had had all that the
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'Julia Roberts is my girlfriend.

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'It doesn't matter,
you have to drink.

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'I just bought my dream house.
It looks across the whole city.

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'Can't enjoy that without a drink.

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'I'm making
a million dollars a week.

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'I win, right?
Would you like to have a drink?

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'Why, yes, I would,
thank you very much.

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'I'm the luckiest man on the planet,
and, boy, did I have fun.

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'They just weren't the answer.'

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I just had no idea
what this person had been through.

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It is interesting
where he picks out certain events

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that happened in his early childhood

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and how they relate all through
his life and haunted him.

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Matthew Perry was born in 1969,

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and he was raised in Ottawa, Canada.

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His father was a singer.

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His mom became a press secretary

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for the Prime Minister of Canada,
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His parents were just too young.

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In his book, he talks about his mom
becoming pregnant when she was 20.

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And by the time he was about one,
they were done.

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He describes it as, "They were
not meant to be together."

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One of the most dramatic parts
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is really very early on.

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He talks about being put on a plane
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when he was five years old.

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He could not understand, you know,

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"Why isn't there anybody here
with me?"

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MATTHEW: I was sent on a plane
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where I lived with my mom,

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to Los Angeles, California,
where I would visit my dad.

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I was what is called
an unaccompanied minor.

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For maybe a millisecond, I thought
it would be an exciting adventure

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and then realised
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and this was all
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This is where a lot of this started,

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this feeling very alone.

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Matthew Perry talks about
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the first time
he experienced alcohol.

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TOM: The first time
you had a drink, you write about.

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Yeah.
You were 14.

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I was with my best friends,
the Murray brothers,

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and they got some beers,
and I got a bottle of wine.

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And I drank the entire bottle
and lay in the ground,

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and looked at the skies

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and just felt better
than I ever had in my entire life.

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And I thought to myself,

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"This is probably what normal people
feel like all the time."

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Matthew points out in the book

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that his dad went on
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Though he was what
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he was working pretty steadily,

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and would eventually become
the Old Spice guy.

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ADVERT ANNOUNCER:
So even if you love only one woman,

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you'll love Old Spice...

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He was on a television set all day.

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I saw his face more often on TV
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than I did in reality.

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Perhaps that's why
I became an actor.

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In 1987,
Matthew Perry was cast in a movie

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opposite River Phoenix.

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It was called A Night In The Life
Of Jimmy Reardon.

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I still got 20 minutes, right?
15.

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The film was not exactly
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but he said it had
a really huge impact on him.

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Matthew was the first friend
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When I moved there, I was 21.

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He was 16.

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We did a pilot together
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that never saw the light of day.

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But Matthew and I
became really good friends.

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And we were really more
like brothers for a long time.

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As the '80s went on,
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he's working as a pretty good
guest star on television.

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And eventually,
he was cast in Friends, obviously.

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FRIENDS THEME PLAYS

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Excuse me.
Agh!

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Ooh!
THEY CHUCKLE

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Uh, is your name Chandler?

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Hi.

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ROSS, JOEY & CHANDLER: Hey.

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Chandler, Chandler is my name.

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Chandler Bing.
Do you know me, or...?

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Friends was such
a global phenomenon, you know?

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It was such a huge hit
all around the world.

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The character of Chandler Bing

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seemed to be custom-made
for Matthew Perry.

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Please, could she be
more out of my league?

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Could I be more sorry?

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QUACKING AND CHIRPING

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Could we be more white trash?

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And it was about six young people
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living in Manhattan,
figuring out life.

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They developed
really great characters,

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and the actors,
you know, play them well,

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so it's really fun,

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and we have a really good time
doing it.

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So I think that comes across.

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All right, well, be good.
I love you. Mwah!

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My name is Morgan Fairchild,

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and I've been an actor
since I was ten years old.

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Hey, hey, hey, she's on.

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APPLAUSE ON TV

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Ah, Nora Bing.

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When they offered me the part,

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I thought Mrs Bing
sounded like a hoot to play.

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'What is this
about you being arrested in London?

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'What is that all about?'
Your mom was arrested?

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Shh! Busy beaming with pride (!)

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Working with Matthew
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was an interesting process.

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I'm leaving for New York tomorrow,
which I hate.

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But I get to see my son, who I love.

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You know, Chandler
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and Nora Bing never being able
to execute being a normal mother.

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Because she is who she is,
and she's a little eccentric,

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and she's a little over-sexed,
and she's a little hyper,

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but she loves him.

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By the end of the first season,
they knew, you know, this is it.

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This is going to be a juggernaut.

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Looking wonderful this evening.
Thank you very much.

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MAN:
Matthew, Matthew, right back here.

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REPORTER: Who's the funniest person
in the cast?

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Matthew Perry.
Lisa Kudrow.

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And at one point,
they were being paid

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more than $1.1 million an episode.

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OVERLAPPING SHOUTING

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WOMAN: Matthew, to your left.

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MAN: Matthew. Hey, Matthew.

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We think, as outsiders looking in,

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"If I had millions of dollars,
all my troubles would go away."

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PHOTOGRAPHERS, SHOUTING:
Matthew! Matthew! Matthew!

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WOMAN:
And, Matthew, one right here.

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But there's a thing going on inside
that can't be cured.

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Money can't cure it.
Fame can't cure it.

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With the Diane Sawyer interview,

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I remember
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like, "Oh, thank God.
You know, he seems like he's OK."

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You say,
"Addiction, the big, terrible thing,

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"is far too powerful
for anyone to defeat alone.

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"But together, one day at a time,
we can beat it down."

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Yeah. Your disease is just outside,

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just doing one-arm push-ups,
just waiting,

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just waiting for you,
waiting to get you alone,

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because alone,
you lose to the disease.

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And now I finally feel OK and feel
like I've got some strength.

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KATY: I'd reported on him
for so many years

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and was seeing what he looked like
on TV, speaking to her.

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It seemed like he was doing so well.

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Everyone thought he was clean
and sober.

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MARTIN: An autopsy was conducted.

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That autopsy showed
that he had died as a result

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of the acute effects of ketamine.

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REPORTER: There was ketamine found
in Matthew Perry's system,

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and it was reported
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ketamine infusion therapy
to treat depression and anxiety.

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When the toxicology report
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that's when we knew that, you know,
there's way more to this story.

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That began to open the door
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ketamine abuse, and if so,

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how to get it,
who was giving it to him.

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It became incumbent upon us
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to determine
how he obtained that ketamine.

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We began working the various leads,

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and we learned that there were
allegedly multiple sources

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of supply for the ketamine.

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And those sources were people
who should have known much better.

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You just don't want to believe it,
that it...

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you know, that it could be something
that sinister.

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REPORTER: The question now, where
did Matthew Perry get the ketamine?

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These defendants took advantage

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of Mr Perry's addiction issues
to enrich themselves.

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These are the parts of the story

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that then become
even more disturbing.

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REPORTER: A criminal investigation
is underway tonight

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into the death of Friends star
Matthew Perry.

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REPORTER: The investigators
focusing on the amount of ketamine

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found in the actor's body,

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and they want to know
where it came from.

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Following Mr Perry's death
in October of last year...

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..law enforcement, my office,

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and our partners
represented on this stage

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began an in-depth,
wide-ranging investigation.

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That investigation
has revealed a broad,

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underground criminal network
responsible for distributing

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large quantities of ketamine

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to Mr Perry and others.

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In the indictment,
there are five people

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who are involved
in an ongoing conspiracy to provide

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Mr Perry with ketamine.

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These defendants took advantage

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of Mr Perry's addiction issues
to enrich themselves.

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This network included a live-in
assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa.

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Matthew Perry's personal assistant,
Kenneth Iwamasa,

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arrested and charged,
which I think was quite a shock

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because he'd been with Matthew Perry
for many, many years.

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REPORTER:
New details are coming to light

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about Matthew Perry's
long-time assistant

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and his involvement in his death.

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According to law enforcement,
Kenneth "Kenny" Iwamasa

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administered the dose of ketamine

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that killed
the beloved Friends star.

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On the last day
of Matthew Perry's life,

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Mr Iwamasa
injects Mr Perry several times.

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And one last injection,

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he leaves him,
goes to run some errands,

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comes back,
and we find Mr Perry passed away.

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JENNIFER:
As far as being an assistant goes,

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it can be super glamorous,
but it's very hard work as well.

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They have to meet so many criteria,

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and I think trust is the number one
criteria for a celebrity.

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Ken was living with him.

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He was working with him 24/7.

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When you have
a personal relationship,

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the lines get blurred.

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It's a very tough subject,

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talking about
being a celebrity's assistant,

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because if you've been
in Hollywood long enough,

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you know how hard that job is.

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I felt bad
that he was in that position,

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and I thank God
that I was never in that position.

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Your boss asks you to do something,

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and you may not feel comfortable
doing it,

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but this is your livelihood
on the line.

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And if you say no,

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they'll just find somebody else
who will say yes.

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I think it's easy for people
to judge Ken

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and say that he, you know,
never should have done that.

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I mean, I don't know him personally,

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but if I were in his shoes,

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I would be horrified
at the situation.

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In 1996,
Matthew Perry was making a movie

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with Salma Hayek, Fools Rush In.

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And out
near their shooting location,

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he saw a bunch of jet skis
out on the lake,

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and he wanted to do it.

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And there was an incident,
and he hurt himself.

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And he was given opiates
for his pain...

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..and thus began a new addiction.

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At that point, he was aware
of his own problems with alcohol,

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but it was a new level
with painkillers.

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MATTHEW: 'You can track
the trajectory of my addiction

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'if you gauge my weight
from season to season.'

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You know what?

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I'm not gonna end up like this.

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'When I'm carrying weight,
it's alcohol.'

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I can't believe I ruined this.

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'When I'm skinny, it's pills.'

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Oh, my God.

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'When I have a goatee,
it's lots of pills.'

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He talks very vividly

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about his weight gains
and weight losses.

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You wanted it to be a surprise.

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He has a very vivid description

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of the scenes

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when he's proposing to Monica.

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VOICE BREAKING: I thought...

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I... I can do this.

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When they come back the next season,

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there's such a marked difference
in his weight.

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Monica and I are engaged.

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Oh, my God.

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Come on.

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Congratulations.

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What doesn't Matthew know?

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That he's all right.

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We didn't know.

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JENNIFER INHALES

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We, you know...

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We weren't equipped.
We weren't, um...

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To... To deal with it, you know?

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Nobody had ever dealt with...
with that.

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I tried to reach out a little bit

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and let him know
I was there for him.

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Because I have had other people
in my life

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who've had trouble with alcohol
or drugs,

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and, "I'm here to talk
if you would like to."

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His life was overtaken by addictions

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that, in each phase
that he writes about,

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he finds a new way to try and handle
and never can.

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He talks about spending
more than $9 million,

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going to detox
more than at least 12 times.

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MATTHEW: I have lived half my life,
in one form or another,

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of a treatment centre
or a sober living house,

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which is fine
when you're 24 years old,

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less fine when you're 42 years old.

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Now I was 49, still struggling
to get this monkey off my back.

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He talks about going to
yet another detox programme,

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yet another place,
this time in Switzerland.

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And this was the first time
he was introduced to ketamine.

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And you can tell
by the way he writes

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that it made an impression on him.

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I was also doing ketamine infusions
every day.

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Ketamine was a very popular
street drug in the '80s.

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There is a synthetic form of it now,
and it's used for two reasons -

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to ease pain
and help with depression.

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Has my name written all over it.

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They might as well
have called it "Matty".

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Ketamine felt like a giant exhale,

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like being hit in the head
with a giant happy shovel.

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Matthew Perry described
his first treatment

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with ketamine as being hit
over the head with a happy shovel.

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It doesn't surprise me at all.

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What Matthew Perry experienced
was this lifting of this depression.

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And what's profound about ketamine

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is it does it
almost instantaneously.

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Typically,
the patients that come here

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are patients that have tried
conventional treatments

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for things like depression,
anxiety, PTSD.

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And they just found that they were
really not making progress.

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So they come in saying,
"I need something different."

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Hi, Annie.
Hi, Dr Feifel.

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It's great to see you.
Good to see you too.

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So it's been about three weeks,
I think,

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since your last treatment, right?
Yeah.

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Ketamine is actually
a very old drug, if you will.

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I mean, it's a drug
that was developed in the 1960s

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as an anaesthetic.

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At lower doses, this drug seems
to have remarkable properties

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for treating mental illness.

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And the idea behind that
is it kind of kick-starts

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the brain changes
and the psychological changes

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that can have
that therapeutic effect.

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Treating patients in a medically
observed environment is critical

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because ketamine can result
in a person losing consciousness.

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We're always continuously monitoring
patients' blood pressure,

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their heart rate
and their oxygenation status.

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KNOCK ON DOOR

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Hey, Annie.
Hello.

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How are you feeling?

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I'm doing good.
Good.

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I really hope that this becomes
a more accessible treatment.

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Because I know so many people
who are stuck

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feeling like they have to depend
on SSRIs or pills

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and stuff,
and they don't always work.

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The majority of our patients report
for the days and weeks afterwards,

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they just feel like
they have more normal emotions.

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They're free of the depression,
the anxiety, the PTSD.

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The speed at which it can
improve things is unprecedented.

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REPORTER:
According to the autopsy report,

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he had high levels of ketamine
in his blood,

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with Perry reported to be receiving
ketamine infusion therapy

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for depression and anxiety.

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However, an investigation concluded

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the ketamine did not come
from the infusion therapy,

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as his last treatment was a week
and a half before his death.

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And the drug clears the system
in a few hours.

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Ketamine is a controlled substance.

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It is a substance
that can have legitimate purposes.

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But it has to be administered
by trained professionals.

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Unfortunately,
it is a drug that is also abused.

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Mr Perry fell back into addiction,

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and he began searching for
additional sources of ketamine.

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If you're an addict,

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anything that can be abused
can sort of wake that beast up.

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Hollywood is full of enablers,

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00:27:27,740 --> 00:27:30,860
and I don't think that's unique
to Hollywood.

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00:27:30,860 --> 00:27:34,700
I think any industry where
there's a lot of money to be made,

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you're always
going to find enablers.

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00:27:41,580 --> 00:27:44,900
There's a whole plethora
of criminal activity.

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00:27:44,900 --> 00:27:48,620
They supplied Matthew Perry
with large amounts of ketamine

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in exchange for large sums of money.

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That really hit me,
out of anything -

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you know, that they'd really preyed
on somebody vulnerable.

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One could describe the current state
of ketamine access

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and treatment as a Wild West

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because there's a great demand
for ketamine.

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There's a lot of physicians
making decisions

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to provide ketamine
because they can.

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So we see a lot of physicians
suddenly open up these clinics.

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I think the main thing
that can make ketamine dangerous

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is its unsupervised use.

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That's where we have
a dangerous situation.

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REPORTER: This morning,
new details on potential charges

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in the death of actor Matthew Perry,

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00:28:50,540 --> 00:28:53,500
a law enforcement source
familiar with the investigation

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00:28:53,500 --> 00:28:57,020
into how he obtained the ketamine
that contributed to his death,

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00:28:57,020 --> 00:28:58,540
telling NBC News,

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several people who supplied Perry
with the drug

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could face federal charges.

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GREG:
Once a responsible doctor realises

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a person is abusing drugs,
they'll no longer prescribe it.

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00:29:15,260 --> 00:29:17,700
So then they have to go find another
more friendly doctor

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00:29:17,700 --> 00:29:20,300
until they find somebody

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with no consideration
or concern about responsibilities.

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MARTIN: Kenneth Iwamasa
allegedly began obtaining ketamine

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from these two medical doctors,

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00:29:35,060 --> 00:29:38,220
Dr Salvador Plasencia

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and Dr Mark Chavez.

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00:29:42,060 --> 00:29:44,900
Ketamine is a schedule III narcotic

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under the Controlled Substance Act.

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00:29:47,700 --> 00:29:51,420
And a schedule III narcotic
has to be prescribed

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00:29:51,420 --> 00:29:53,060
for it to be legally distributed.

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00:30:02,260 --> 00:30:03,820
According to the indictment,

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00:30:03,820 --> 00:30:06,980
Dr Chavez creates prescriptions
for the ketamine.

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00:30:06,980 --> 00:30:10,700
And he's distributing
down to Dr Plasencia.

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00:30:16,620 --> 00:30:20,500
When you read
some of the communications

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00:30:20,500 --> 00:30:23,420
that law enforcement
was able to get its hands on,

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00:30:23,420 --> 00:30:24,820
it's sickening, actually.

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00:30:32,020 --> 00:30:37,700
Dr Plasencia was very clear
in text messages and other messages

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00:30:37,700 --> 00:30:40,180
in saying that he saw this
as an opportunity

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00:30:40,180 --> 00:30:42,140
to make a lot of money
in a short amount of time.

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00:30:42,140 --> 00:30:43,940
And he allegedly did just that.

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00:30:43,940 --> 00:30:45,940
He sets the prices,
which were exorbitant.

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00:30:45,940 --> 00:30:49,660
And the indictment contains evidence
that he sold,

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00:30:49,660 --> 00:30:53,540
over about a month,
20 vials of ketamine to Mr Perry

488
00:30:53,540 --> 00:30:55,940
in exchange for $55,000.

489
00:30:57,340 --> 00:31:01,300
They supplied Matthew Perry
with large amounts of ketamine

490
00:31:01,300 --> 00:31:04,780
in exchange for large sums of money,

491
00:31:04,780 --> 00:31:07,380
charging Perry $2,000

492
00:31:07,380 --> 00:31:12,300
for a vial that cost Dr Chavez
approximately $12.

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00:31:15,940 --> 00:31:17,620
They even talked about the fact

494
00:31:17,620 --> 00:31:20,540
that this wasn't the right way
to administer ketamine.

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00:31:20,540 --> 00:31:23,820
Yet this was a golden opportunity
to make money.

496
00:31:23,820 --> 00:31:27,660
And at one point,
Dr Plasencia writes to Dr Chavez,

497
00:31:27,660 --> 00:31:30,100
quote, "I wonder
how much this moron will pay."

498
00:31:36,340 --> 00:31:40,780
There was just such a degree
of almost disdain for Mr Perry.

499
00:31:41,860 --> 00:31:43,340
And these are medical doctors.

500
00:31:45,620 --> 00:31:47,100
The text messages,

501
00:31:47,100 --> 00:31:50,780
I think that really hit me,
out of anything.

502
00:31:50,780 --> 00:31:53,860
You know, that they'd really preyed
on somebody vulnerable.

503
00:31:58,020 --> 00:32:00,380
The demeaning way
they talked about him,

504
00:32:00,380 --> 00:32:03,740
it's sort of hard to believe
these are human beings

505
00:32:03,740 --> 00:32:05,660
walking among us.

506
00:32:07,140 --> 00:32:09,500
According to the indictment,
these individuals

507
00:32:09,500 --> 00:32:13,900
were using the app called Signal,
which is an encrypted app.

508
00:32:13,900 --> 00:32:17,020
Often-times, people think
that because it's an encrypted app

509
00:32:17,020 --> 00:32:19,300
that law enforcement
can't access it.

510
00:32:19,300 --> 00:32:20,180
But it's not the case.

511
00:32:20,180 --> 00:32:22,500
Often-times,
law enforcement's ahead of the game.

512
00:32:26,900 --> 00:32:29,540
Within the indictment,
there's a whole plethora

513
00:32:29,540 --> 00:32:30,780
of criminal activity.

514
00:32:32,300 --> 00:32:36,700
Dr Plasencia even teaches Mr Iwamasa
how to do the injections.

515
00:32:37,980 --> 00:32:41,220
Allegedly, you have Dr Plasencia

516
00:32:41,220 --> 00:32:43,780
providing ketamine
to a live-in assistant

517
00:32:43,780 --> 00:32:46,140
who has no medical training
whatsoever.

518
00:32:46,140 --> 00:32:50,180
And that live-in assistant
is administering the ketamine

519
00:32:50,180 --> 00:32:53,500
to a person whose risk factors
are through the roof.

520
00:32:54,780 --> 00:32:58,180
So you've got doctor,
doctor, assistant.

521
00:32:58,180 --> 00:33:00,540
But when it reached a point

522
00:33:00,540 --> 00:33:04,020
where Mr Perry's request
or demand for more ketamine

523
00:33:04,020 --> 00:33:05,540
became so great

524
00:33:05,540 --> 00:33:10,740
that Dr Plasencia and Dr Chavez
could not provide that amount,

525
00:33:10,740 --> 00:33:13,020
they then reached out
to an intermediary,

526
00:33:13,020 --> 00:33:14,540
who was this Mr Fleming.

527
00:33:23,620 --> 00:33:25,340
Eric Fleming
had no medical training.

528
00:33:27,220 --> 00:33:28,740
So the risk factors
are through the roof.

529
00:33:29,900 --> 00:33:34,300
It sounds murkier
with the assistant and the doctors.

530
00:33:34,300 --> 00:33:36,900
And now the go-between person.

531
00:33:36,900 --> 00:33:40,140
Mr Fleming, in turn,
went to reach out

532
00:33:40,140 --> 00:33:44,620
to an individual
named Jasveen Sangha,

533
00:33:44,620 --> 00:33:46,820
who became known
as the Ketamine Queen.

534
00:33:47,980 --> 00:33:49,860
We searched her house.

535
00:33:49,860 --> 00:33:52,940
She was a massive source of drugs.

536
00:33:52,940 --> 00:33:57,260
This was something bigger
than people ever expected it to be.

537
00:33:57,260 --> 00:33:59,620
And when I heard the details,

538
00:33:59,620 --> 00:34:02,340
I was, like everybody else,
horrified.

539
00:34:22,620 --> 00:34:24,220
KATY:
There's nothing like Hollywood.

540
00:34:25,540 --> 00:34:28,300
Fame is hugely important
to a lot of people that come here.

541
00:34:33,620 --> 00:34:36,180
But a lot of people
come here to make it.

542
00:34:41,900 --> 00:34:44,180
But I genuinely don't think
a lot of people

543
00:34:44,180 --> 00:34:46,380
realise what fame really is.

544
00:34:49,460 --> 00:34:53,180
I do think people seek fame
and celebrity

545
00:34:53,180 --> 00:34:56,820
to fill a hole
that that's never going to fill.

546
00:34:56,820 --> 00:34:59,100
Matthew! Hey, Matthew!
Matthew!

547
00:34:59,100 --> 00:35:01,100
PHOTOGRAPHERS SHOUT

548
00:35:01,100 --> 00:35:03,380
WOMAN:
Matthew, up top, please! Matthew!

549
00:35:05,300 --> 00:35:10,020
Matthew Perry writes very vividly
about seeking fame...

550
00:35:11,820 --> 00:35:15,660
..but wanting fame
to stop his own issues.

551
00:35:15,660 --> 00:35:18,660
MATTHEW: Fame, fame, fame.
That's all we wanted.

552
00:35:18,660 --> 00:35:20,300
It was all we cared about.

553
00:35:20,300 --> 00:35:22,740
Because, at least for me, I figured

554
00:35:22,740 --> 00:35:24,660
being famous
would fill that great hole

555
00:35:24,660 --> 00:35:27,140
that was endlessly growing
inside of me.

556
00:35:28,580 --> 00:35:32,980
I think one of the most
dangerous parts of success,

557
00:35:32,980 --> 00:35:34,540
whether that's wealth
or fame or both,

558
00:35:34,540 --> 00:35:37,420
is that all of your worst instincts

559
00:35:37,420 --> 00:35:39,860
are going to be catered to.

560
00:35:39,860 --> 00:35:42,900
And that is a really dangerous place
to be.

561
00:35:45,340 --> 00:35:51,700
I think that people feel
that stars can do no wrong,

562
00:35:51,700 --> 00:35:53,500
and they love to build them up

563
00:35:53,500 --> 00:35:56,700
as much as they love
to tear them down.

564
00:35:57,900 --> 00:36:00,620
It's an impossible place to be.

565
00:36:05,540 --> 00:36:07,380
OVERLAPPING SHOUTING

566
00:36:09,540 --> 00:36:13,260
I remember when Matthew
was first starting to go public

567
00:36:13,260 --> 00:36:15,220
about some of the issues.

568
00:36:15,220 --> 00:36:17,900
And, yeah,
I was terribly proud of him.

569
00:36:17,900 --> 00:36:20,260
It's hard, especially in this town,

570
00:36:20,260 --> 00:36:24,660
to admit you've got any problem,
that there's anything wrong.

571
00:36:24,660 --> 00:36:26,940
And I thought
it was very brave of him,

572
00:36:26,940 --> 00:36:28,340
and I was very, very proud of him,

573
00:36:28,340 --> 00:36:31,300
and that he did seem to really want
to help other people

574
00:36:31,300 --> 00:36:32,420
that were also struggling.

575
00:36:37,500 --> 00:36:40,740
You were in treatment for something,
substance abuse?

576
00:36:40,740 --> 00:36:43,380
Yeah. Well, it actually happened
during this movie.

577
00:36:43,380 --> 00:36:44,900
While we were shooting this movie.

578
00:36:44,900 --> 00:36:47,740
It's been pretty well documented
that I had some problems

579
00:36:47,740 --> 00:36:49,740
with alcoholism and addiction.

580
00:36:49,740 --> 00:36:53,300
And before this movie was over,
I left the film to go get help.

581
00:36:53,300 --> 00:36:55,340
And it was kind of...
How are you doing now?

582
00:36:55,340 --> 00:36:57,700
Oh, I'm doing great.
I'm doing really great.

583
00:36:57,700 --> 00:36:58,620
And this is...
Thanks.

584
00:36:58,620 --> 00:37:00,820
APPLAUSE

585
00:37:05,700 --> 00:37:07,780
My true message is that, you know,

586
00:37:07,780 --> 00:37:10,140
if you face this,
then sobriety is possible.

587
00:37:10,140 --> 00:37:11,860
And I've never been happier
in my whole life.

588
00:37:11,860 --> 00:37:13,500
Good for you. That's a lovely thing.

589
00:37:20,260 --> 00:37:22,620
OVERLAPPING SHOUTING
Up top!

590
00:37:22,620 --> 00:37:24,100
Matthew! Matthew!
Mr Perry, up top!

591
00:37:24,100 --> 00:37:26,660
Matthew! Matthew!

592
00:37:26,660 --> 00:37:29,540
He was trying to help people,
even when he was struggling.

593
00:37:29,540 --> 00:37:31,900
Even in the midst of his own pain,

594
00:37:31,900 --> 00:37:33,500
he tried to reach out
to other people.

595
00:37:33,500 --> 00:37:35,380
PHOTOGRAPHER:
Matthew, right here please?

596
00:37:35,380 --> 00:37:38,180
All the way over. There you go.
And that smile, Matt.

597
00:37:38,180 --> 00:37:40,020
OVERLAPPING CONVERSATION

598
00:37:46,460 --> 00:37:49,180
The night I went into AA,
Matthew brought me in.

599
00:37:50,620 --> 00:37:54,020
The whole first year I was sober,
we went to meetings together.

600
00:37:54,020 --> 00:37:56,820
And he was such a great...

601
00:37:56,820 --> 00:37:59,460
I got to tell him this.
He was just...

602
00:37:59,460 --> 00:38:05,060
As a sober person,
he was so caring and giving

603
00:38:05,060 --> 00:38:09,900
and wise,
and he totally helped me get sober.

604
00:38:16,340 --> 00:38:20,060
MATTHEW: I hadn't been there
for anyone for so long,

605
00:38:20,060 --> 00:38:24,140
my addiction being my best friend
and my evil friend

606
00:38:24,140 --> 00:38:27,780
and my punisher
and my lover all in one.

607
00:38:27,780 --> 00:38:29,660
My big, terrible thing.

608
00:38:31,420 --> 00:38:33,780
I sensed an awakening.

609
00:38:33,780 --> 00:38:37,620
That I was here for more
than this big, terrible thing.

610
00:38:37,620 --> 00:38:40,580
That I could help people, love them,

611
00:38:40,580 --> 00:38:44,180
because of how far down
the scale I had gone.

612
00:38:44,180 --> 00:38:45,940
I had a story to tell,

613
00:38:45,940 --> 00:38:48,540
a story
that could really help people.

614
00:38:48,540 --> 00:38:52,060
And helping others
had become the answer for me.

615
00:38:57,460 --> 00:39:00,580
He got
a lot of personal satisfaction,

616
00:39:00,580 --> 00:39:03,380
pleasure, almost,
from helping other people.

617
00:39:03,380 --> 00:39:06,740
Loved helping people, loved
the feeling that it brought him.

618
00:39:06,740 --> 00:39:09,420
It's lovely to have you.
I've been looking forward to this.

619
00:39:09,420 --> 00:39:10,740
Congratulations on the book.

620
00:39:10,740 --> 00:39:12,380
I really enjoyed it.
Thank you very much.

621
00:39:12,380 --> 00:39:14,340
How's the process been
of just talking about it?

622
00:39:14,340 --> 00:39:17,740
It's been... What it's all about
is helping people.

623
00:39:17,740 --> 00:39:22,060
And I've heard already five stories
of people that read the book

624
00:39:22,060 --> 00:39:23,820
and checked into treatment.

625
00:39:23,820 --> 00:39:26,100
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

626
00:39:38,820 --> 00:39:41,180
We first started reporting
on Matthew Perry

627
00:39:41,180 --> 00:39:42,860
around the time
of the Friends reunion.

628
00:39:42,860 --> 00:39:45,140
Rumours were circulating.

629
00:39:45,140 --> 00:39:46,860
Everyone was very excited.

630
00:39:46,860 --> 00:39:49,420
Matty! Oh, my God.
Flooshie! Hi.

631
00:39:49,420 --> 00:39:51,460
JENNIFER: Could you be any later?
MATT: Hey.

632
00:39:51,460 --> 00:39:54,540
KATY: 'Matthew Perry
is a little more low key,

633
00:39:54,540 --> 00:39:56,980
'and he was more removed
from the rest of the cast.'

634
00:39:56,980 --> 00:39:59,340
How are you, bud?
Good.

635
00:39:59,340 --> 00:40:01,700
Look at all of this.
Isn't it crazy?

636
00:40:01,700 --> 00:40:03,540
DEBORAH:
'He may not have looked great.'

637
00:40:03,540 --> 00:40:05,900
He may have seemed a little off.

638
00:40:05,900 --> 00:40:10,420
But the fact that he was there,
and he was with all those guys.

639
00:40:10,420 --> 00:40:12,380
The cast of Friends, everybody!

640
00:40:12,380 --> 00:40:14,820
APPLAUSE

641
00:40:14,820 --> 00:40:17,620
It was like when your favourite
rock band gets back together.

642
00:40:17,620 --> 00:40:18,860
"Oh, thank God!"

643
00:40:18,860 --> 00:40:22,020
You know, that's that feeling
that all these people are together.

644
00:40:27,820 --> 00:40:30,580
To me, I felt like
I was going to die

645
00:40:30,580 --> 00:40:32,220
if they didn't laugh.

646
00:40:32,220 --> 00:40:34,580
And it's not healthy, for sure.

647
00:40:34,580 --> 00:40:37,140
But I would sometimes say a line,
and they wouldn't laugh,

648
00:40:37,140 --> 00:40:42,460
and I would sweat
and just go into convulsions.

649
00:40:48,700 --> 00:40:51,220
He'd not been seen on screen
in many years.

650
00:40:53,100 --> 00:40:55,460
He was obviously
somebody vulnerable.

651
00:40:55,460 --> 00:40:58,820
ANNA: They say that no matter
how long you're stopped,

652
00:40:58,820 --> 00:41:00,620
your disease is doing push-ups.

653
00:41:02,020 --> 00:41:05,940
You can have 30 years
of having done everything right.

654
00:41:05,940 --> 00:41:09,020
And if one day, it occurs to you
that this would be OK to do,

655
00:41:09,020 --> 00:41:10,780
and you do it, it can kill you.

656
00:41:29,900 --> 00:41:34,300
MARTIN: Allegedly, Dr Plasencia
would arrange with Mr Perry

657
00:41:34,300 --> 00:41:37,180
different locations to meet
to provide the ketamine.

658
00:41:38,900 --> 00:41:42,780
On one occasion, they meet
in a parking lot in Long Beach.

659
00:41:42,780 --> 00:41:46,540
And he administers,
in the back of a car, ketamine.

660
00:41:54,860 --> 00:41:57,700
Doctors are not supposed
to inject people

661
00:41:57,700 --> 00:41:59,700
in the back of parking lots.

662
00:41:59,700 --> 00:42:02,660
A trained doctor,
like Dr Plasencia, knew much better.

663
00:42:03,860 --> 00:42:05,740
One of the overall themes
of our indictment

664
00:42:05,740 --> 00:42:08,140
is that all these defendants
should have known better.

665
00:42:08,140 --> 00:42:10,500
They were taking advantage
of an individual

666
00:42:10,500 --> 00:42:14,740
and letting their greed drive them
to endanger Mr Perry's life.

667
00:42:22,100 --> 00:42:24,100
What should have happened
at that point

668
00:42:24,100 --> 00:42:27,260
was, first of all,
been monitoring his vitals.

669
00:42:27,260 --> 00:42:31,260
But more importantly,
they should have made sure

670
00:42:31,260 --> 00:42:36,060
that he was not near anything
that could cause him harm.

671
00:42:36,060 --> 00:42:39,620
When you're not in control
of your body,

672
00:42:39,620 --> 00:42:41,900
you're at risk of doing harm
to yourself.

673
00:42:44,180 --> 00:42:45,740
These are the parts of the story

674
00:42:45,740 --> 00:42:48,820
that then become
even more disturbing.

675
00:42:48,820 --> 00:42:51,420
Someone who's seen him nearly die,

676
00:42:51,420 --> 00:42:56,140
and then gone back
and preyed on him for money.

677
00:42:57,580 --> 00:43:02,260
Dr Plasencia had numerous red flags
that were flashing in front of him.

678
00:43:03,900 --> 00:43:06,540
The allegations show
he's providing the ketamine.

679
00:43:06,540 --> 00:43:10,500
He's injecting Mr Perry
in parking lots.

680
00:43:10,500 --> 00:43:12,860
He's seeing Mr Perry freeze up.

681
00:43:12,860 --> 00:43:15,460
At one point,
he tells another patient

682
00:43:15,460 --> 00:43:19,060
that Mr Perry is, quote,
"spiralling out of control".

683
00:43:19,060 --> 00:43:20,780
But he does nothing about this.

684
00:43:20,780 --> 00:43:23,260
He allegedly continues
to provide ketamine

685
00:43:23,260 --> 00:43:25,380
to Mr Perry's live-in assistant,

686
00:43:25,380 --> 00:43:28,180
which is then going to be
administered to Mr Perry.

687
00:43:34,340 --> 00:43:36,780
According to the indictment,
it reached a point

688
00:43:36,780 --> 00:43:41,100
where Mr Perry's request
or demand for the ketamine

689
00:43:41,100 --> 00:43:42,580
became so great,

690
00:43:42,580 --> 00:43:46,980
Dr Plasencia could not
provide that amount,

691
00:43:46,980 --> 00:43:50,660
and then they go beyond that scope
to another distributor.

692
00:43:52,100 --> 00:43:54,460
That's when they encountered
Eric Fleming

693
00:43:54,460 --> 00:43:57,700
and the Ketamine Queen,
Jasveen Sangha.

694
00:43:59,420 --> 00:44:02,580
REPORTER: Jasveen Sangha,
aka the Ketamine Queen,

695
00:44:02,580 --> 00:44:05,220
is accused of providing the doses
of the drug

696
00:44:05,220 --> 00:44:07,820
that actually killed Perry.

697
00:44:07,820 --> 00:44:09,420
According to the indictment,

698
00:44:09,420 --> 00:44:11,700
Sangha was an illegal
narcotics dealer

699
00:44:11,700 --> 00:44:14,060
in the North Hollywood area.

700
00:44:14,060 --> 00:44:16,340
And she was distributing
a variety of different drugs,

701
00:44:16,340 --> 00:44:17,940
one of them being ketamine.

702
00:44:20,940 --> 00:44:26,060
The evidence showed
she sold about 50 vials of ketamine

703
00:44:26,060 --> 00:44:29,940
over two weeks
for about $11,000 to Mr Perry.

704
00:44:29,940 --> 00:44:32,300
Well, you may have heard
the nickname Ketamine Queen

705
00:44:32,300 --> 00:44:35,140
in association with the overdose
death of actor Matthew Perry.

706
00:44:35,140 --> 00:44:37,140
Now, another family
is coming forward.

707
00:44:37,140 --> 00:44:39,500
They say she sold the drugs
that killed their loved one.

708
00:44:41,860 --> 00:44:44,740
This case involved not just one,
but two victims.

709
00:44:44,740 --> 00:44:47,100
Certainly, the well-known victim
of Matthew Perry,

710
00:44:47,100 --> 00:44:49,300
but also Cody McLaury,
who we can't forget.

711
00:44:50,300 --> 00:44:53,020
In 2019, Jasveen Sangha

712
00:44:53,020 --> 00:44:56,580
allegedly sold ketamine
to Cody McLaury,

713
00:44:56,580 --> 00:44:59,100
who died as a result.

714
00:44:59,100 --> 00:45:03,500
Then one of Cody's family members
sent a message to Ms Sangha

715
00:45:03,500 --> 00:45:07,220
telling her her brother had died
as a result of ketamine.

716
00:45:13,140 --> 00:45:15,540
Law enforcement now sees
that there's this history.

717
00:45:15,540 --> 00:45:20,340
In fact, they discover
that after the other death

718
00:45:20,340 --> 00:45:24,460
is where Jasveen had Googled

719
00:45:24,460 --> 00:45:27,980
whether or not ketamine
could cause somebody's death.

720
00:45:27,980 --> 00:45:30,540
So it goes to show this kind of
consciousness of guilt.

721
00:45:38,860 --> 00:45:42,380
When we searched her house,
it wasn't just ketamine.

722
00:45:42,380 --> 00:45:44,380
We found cocaine.

723
00:45:44,380 --> 00:45:47,940
We found bottles of Xanax,
thousands of methamphetamine pills.

724
00:45:47,940 --> 00:45:49,900
We found drug ledgers, scales.

725
00:45:49,900 --> 00:45:53,140
The evidence showed
she was a massive source of drugs.

726
00:46:01,700 --> 00:46:05,180
REPORTER: When she was growing up
in the posh LA suburb

727
00:46:05,180 --> 00:46:08,020
of Calabasas, California,
home of the Kardashians,

728
00:46:08,020 --> 00:46:10,540
she went to one of the UC colleges.

729
00:46:10,540 --> 00:46:13,860
She went to grad school in England,
came back with an MBA,

730
00:46:13,860 --> 00:46:16,540
but she kind of went astray.

731
00:46:16,540 --> 00:46:20,060
REPORTER: Her high-end lifestyle
also included private jets,

732
00:46:20,060 --> 00:46:23,780
vacations at ocean-front resorts
and posing with celebrities.

733
00:46:30,340 --> 00:46:32,700
When you're dealing drugs
at the level

734
00:46:32,700 --> 00:46:35,660
that Jasveen supposedly was,
it's very lucrative.

735
00:46:37,140 --> 00:46:39,660
And so you've got
this rather luxurious lifestyle.

736
00:46:41,820 --> 00:46:44,540
REPORTER: Sangha, who earned
a reputation in Los Angeles

737
00:46:44,540 --> 00:46:47,460
as a ketamine queen,
could get life in prison.

738
00:46:47,460 --> 00:46:49,740
Authorities say
that she ran a narcotics operation

739
00:46:49,740 --> 00:46:51,180
from her North Hollywood apartment

740
00:46:51,180 --> 00:46:53,980
and had a reputation
as a celebrity drug dealer,

741
00:46:53,980 --> 00:46:55,900
boasting of relationships
with celebrities

742
00:46:55,900 --> 00:46:58,100
and lavish vacations
across the globe.

743
00:47:00,860 --> 00:47:03,900
MAN: Guys, don't push!
OVERLAPPING SHOUTING

744
00:47:03,900 --> 00:47:07,420
Mr Perry brought this whole thing
to the forefront

745
00:47:07,420 --> 00:47:09,780
because of his celebrity status.

746
00:47:10,940 --> 00:47:13,460
If Mr Perry had not been who he was,

747
00:47:13,460 --> 00:47:15,820
this may not have gotten
the attention that it needed

748
00:47:15,820 --> 00:47:18,380
in order to expose those people.

749
00:47:37,500 --> 00:47:40,660
Something was not quite right,
and the tell-tale signs were there.

750
00:47:40,660 --> 00:47:43,020
We did hear that he liked
to get high in the Jacuzzi.

751
00:47:51,460 --> 00:47:53,660
He loved to call himself "Mattman."

752
00:47:54,900 --> 00:47:56,340
He was a huge fan of Batman,

753
00:47:56,340 --> 00:47:58,540
and he nicknamed himself "Mattman."

754
00:48:00,060 --> 00:48:02,500
He felt powerful.
He felt invincible.

755
00:48:02,500 --> 00:48:05,220
And when he was high, those are
the sort of things he would say.

756
00:48:06,580 --> 00:48:08,940
People who have been following
Matthew Perry for years,

757
00:48:08,940 --> 00:48:11,140
they probably sensed
that this was strange.

758
00:48:13,180 --> 00:48:16,500
So, as we get to those final days,
he's seeking more ketamine.

759
00:48:26,580 --> 00:48:28,780
Obviously,
it spiralled out of control.

760
00:48:30,820 --> 00:48:33,100
Kenneth admitted Matthew
had asked him

761
00:48:33,100 --> 00:48:34,380
to, "Shoot me up with a big one."

762
00:48:34,380 --> 00:48:36,780
And then he went off
to a run errands.

763
00:48:38,020 --> 00:48:40,740
He was the one
that delivered the fatal dose.

764
00:49:05,660 --> 00:49:07,460
He just kind of seemed
like that funny friend

765
00:49:07,460 --> 00:49:09,860
that everybody has
when he played Chandler.

766
00:49:09,860 --> 00:49:13,220
So I guess I did kind of know him
just a little bit, it felt like.

767
00:49:13,220 --> 00:49:14,660
So, yeah.

768
00:49:14,660 --> 00:49:17,020
You don't know him,
but you feel like you do know him,

769
00:49:17,020 --> 00:49:20,540
because it's, you know...
It was really heartbreaking.

770
00:49:20,540 --> 00:49:23,700
It's weird - we're strangers,
so to be so sad about someone

771
00:49:23,700 --> 00:49:27,500
you don't even really know,
you know, in person,

772
00:49:27,500 --> 00:49:29,420
that's how much of an impact.

773
00:49:29,420 --> 00:49:32,820
You know, I feel like I wish...
I wonder if he knew,

774
00:49:32,820 --> 00:49:35,660
you know, that he meant that much
to so many people.

775
00:49:39,740 --> 00:49:42,660
My understanding
was he ended up drowning.

776
00:49:42,660 --> 00:49:47,500
If anyone was present, they should
not have let him be anywhere near

777
00:49:47,500 --> 00:49:49,060
a tub or a pool nearby.

778
00:49:54,140 --> 00:49:56,340
He just lived to laugh, and...

779
00:49:58,180 --> 00:50:01,220
..every night, he would...
He was like a genius.

780
00:50:01,220 --> 00:50:04,580
He would weave... He would start
to weave comedy threads together.

781
00:50:04,580 --> 00:50:08,540
Most nights you spent with Matthew,
you were crying laughing by the end.

782
00:50:08,540 --> 00:50:13,060
Um, I really loved him.

783
00:50:13,060 --> 00:50:14,940
A lot of us who were close to him

784
00:50:14,940 --> 00:50:18,300
felt like we lost him
to drugs and alcohol,

785
00:50:18,300 --> 00:50:21,060
um, a long time ago.

786
00:50:21,060 --> 00:50:23,700
It's one of the terrible things
about this disease

787
00:50:23,700 --> 00:50:26,180
is it just takes away
the person you... you love.

788
00:50:35,740 --> 00:50:37,460
After Mr Perry died,

789
00:50:37,460 --> 00:50:40,900
you have Jasveen Sangha
allegedly telling Mr Fleming,

790
00:50:40,900 --> 00:50:42,900
"Delete all our messages."

791
00:50:42,900 --> 00:50:45,300
They knew
that what they did was wrong,

792
00:50:45,300 --> 00:50:47,180
but they did it anyways

793
00:50:47,180 --> 00:50:50,140
and recklessly caused
Mr Perry's death.

794
00:50:50,140 --> 00:50:54,460
Clearly, there's a consciousness
of guilt taking place.

795
00:50:54,460 --> 00:50:55,820
That's very powerful.

796
00:50:55,820 --> 00:51:00,220
Because if you're working
legitimately,

797
00:51:00,220 --> 00:51:02,580
you don't need to go back
and cover your tracks.

798
00:51:02,580 --> 00:51:05,100
You know, you can just see there
in the indictment

799
00:51:05,100 --> 00:51:08,100
that these people were like,
"Holy shit, we're caught."

800
00:51:08,100 --> 00:51:12,340
And so the house of cards
came crumbling down.

801
00:51:19,420 --> 00:51:22,940
We all knew
that arrests were coming.

802
00:51:22,940 --> 00:51:25,900
Obviously, the police had been
investigating for a long time.

803
00:51:25,900 --> 00:51:27,860
We knew people
were being questioned,

804
00:51:27,860 --> 00:51:30,220
that it seemed like a drug ring.

805
00:51:30,220 --> 00:51:34,540
We just didn't know who exactly
was going to be arrested.

806
00:51:48,220 --> 00:51:50,820
The two lead defendants in this case

807
00:51:50,820 --> 00:51:53,820
are defendants Salvador Plasencia

808
00:51:53,820 --> 00:51:57,300
and defendant Jasveen Sangha.

809
00:51:57,300 --> 00:52:00,820
First, I'll talk
about defendant Plasencia.

810
00:52:00,820 --> 00:52:04,500
Defendant Plasencia
was a medical doctor.

811
00:52:04,500 --> 00:52:06,860
He worked
with another medical doctor,

812
00:52:06,860 --> 00:52:11,340
defendant Mark Chavez,
to obtain ketamine.

813
00:52:11,340 --> 00:52:15,220
He then worked
with Mr Perry's live-in assistant,

814
00:52:15,220 --> 00:52:17,980
defendant Kenneth Iwamasa,

815
00:52:17,980 --> 00:52:21,340
to distribute that ketamine
to Mr Perry.

816
00:52:31,220 --> 00:52:34,900
I am not going to have
very many comments for you today.

817
00:52:34,900 --> 00:52:39,300
Main reason is because there are
other defendants in this case.

818
00:52:39,300 --> 00:52:42,620
But he's incredibly remorseful
that at the end of the day,

819
00:52:42,620 --> 00:52:46,060
someone who was trying
to seek treatment died.

820
00:52:51,060 --> 00:52:52,820
The defendants
have all been charged.

821
00:52:52,820 --> 00:52:56,620
Three of them have pled guilty
and will be cooperating.

822
00:53:17,140 --> 00:53:19,500
They want to mitigate
the amount of years

823
00:53:19,500 --> 00:53:21,900
that they're likely to do
by cooperating with the government.

824
00:53:25,300 --> 00:53:27,860
Two remain -
the two main defendants -

825
00:53:27,860 --> 00:53:32,220
Dr Plasencia and Ms Jasveen Sangha.

826
00:53:48,980 --> 00:53:50,620
My client never met Matthew Perry,

827
00:53:50,620 --> 00:53:52,180
had nothing to do
with Matthew Perry.

828
00:53:52,180 --> 00:53:55,380
And all the supposed rumours
otherwise

829
00:53:55,380 --> 00:53:57,100
are just that, urban legend.

830
00:53:57,100 --> 00:54:00,380
This theory
that the so-called fatal dose

831
00:54:00,380 --> 00:54:05,380
is somehow linked to my client
is absolute garbage.

832
00:54:29,220 --> 00:54:33,140
It's very important for us
to bring charges in those instances.

833
00:54:33,140 --> 00:54:36,260
We brought charges
not just involving Mr Perry,

834
00:54:36,260 --> 00:54:38,980
but also Mr McLaury's death as well.

835
00:54:40,900 --> 00:54:44,020
This case was very important to us
to bring justice to the family.

836
00:54:44,020 --> 00:54:46,220
It's important
they be given closure.

837
00:54:49,540 --> 00:54:52,700
In the past, we used to call
these things "overdose deaths"

838
00:54:52,700 --> 00:54:54,980
and do more blaming of the victim.

839
00:54:54,980 --> 00:54:56,140
We don't do that any more.

840
00:54:56,140 --> 00:54:59,100
We blame the drug dealers,
the drug sellers,

841
00:54:59,100 --> 00:55:01,700
for taking advantage
of those addiction issues

842
00:55:01,700 --> 00:55:04,060
to cause death or serious injury.

843
00:55:04,060 --> 00:55:05,940
And that's why we bring these cases.

844
00:55:08,020 --> 00:55:10,980
The big takeaway from this case

845
00:55:10,980 --> 00:55:15,780
is that when people
involved in reckless activity,

846
00:55:15,780 --> 00:55:18,140
whether that be drug dealing
or other activity,

847
00:55:18,140 --> 00:55:21,260
cause the death of others,
there needs to be accountability.

848
00:55:40,740 --> 00:55:44,700
He was such a heart-warming,

849
00:55:44,700 --> 00:55:48,380
kind, uplifting person

850
00:55:48,380 --> 00:55:50,380
that I feel like
everyone could just turn on the TV

851
00:55:50,380 --> 00:55:51,820
and feel immediately comforted
by him.

852
00:55:55,100 --> 00:55:59,020
I lost a friend in multiple ways.

853
00:55:59,020 --> 00:56:05,380
And what's amazing
is the outpouring from the fans

854
00:56:05,380 --> 00:56:09,540
who lost a friend of theirs too.

855
00:56:09,540 --> 00:56:12,260
And I hope wherever he is,
he feels it.

856
00:56:13,700 --> 00:56:16,060
The show is so great
because you don't even know them,

857
00:56:16,060 --> 00:56:17,700
but you feel like
they're your friends.

858
00:56:17,700 --> 00:56:20,100
And so he was my favourite one

859
00:56:20,100 --> 00:56:21,820
because he just made me laugh
all the time.

860
00:56:21,820 --> 00:56:24,100
So this... this is not easy.

861
00:56:26,700 --> 00:56:30,580
So incredibly sad
that this story has become so big.

862
00:56:30,580 --> 00:56:31,940
We're talking about ketamine,

863
00:56:31,940 --> 00:56:34,300
we're talking about drug rings
in LA

864
00:56:34,300 --> 00:56:37,940
and how medical malpractice
is everywhere,

865
00:56:37,940 --> 00:56:41,260
that we're really forgetting
this story is about one man,

866
00:56:41,260 --> 00:56:44,180
and one man who simply
wanted to be happy.

867
00:56:44,180 --> 00:56:47,420
People are just forgetting
who he was

868
00:56:47,420 --> 00:56:49,660
and that he will be missed.

869
00:56:57,300 --> 00:57:01,620
SUZANNE: If it doesn't stop,
we're going to lose so many people.

870
00:57:04,180 --> 00:57:09,420
He made it a big focus of his life
to help other people.

871
00:57:09,420 --> 00:57:12,860
It's clearly the work of your heart,
and for him.

872
00:57:12,860 --> 00:57:15,140
But what he taught the world
is that no amount of money

873
00:57:15,140 --> 00:57:18,100
will cure an addict.

874
00:57:18,100 --> 00:57:20,460
It needs something else.
And that's...

875
00:57:20,460 --> 00:57:22,460
Yeah, that's what we're trying
to do.

876
00:57:22,460 --> 00:57:27,620
OVERLAPPING SHOUTING
AND CHEERING

877
00:57:27,620 --> 00:57:30,220
JENNIFER: I think the greatest gift
that Matthew offered

878
00:57:30,220 --> 00:57:35,220
is sharing his personal struggle
with pain and addiction.

879
00:57:35,220 --> 00:57:39,620
And I feel like he did that

880
00:57:39,620 --> 00:57:41,980
because he really did want
to help a lot of people.

881
00:57:43,380 --> 00:57:45,060
COURTENEY:
I'm so thankful I got to work

882
00:57:45,060 --> 00:57:47,260
so closely with him
for so many years.

883
00:57:48,620 --> 00:57:50,980
He visits me a lot,
if we believe in that.

884
00:57:50,980 --> 00:57:54,860
I know you're a spiritual person,
so you still feel his presence?

885
00:57:54,860 --> 00:57:56,740
Yeah, I sense Matthew's around,
for sure.

886
00:58:03,820 --> 00:58:08,140
KATY: I think Matthew Perry's legacy
is split in two parts.

887
00:58:08,140 --> 00:58:11,740
On one side, his legacy will be

888
00:58:11,740 --> 00:58:14,100
this is where
you don't want to end up,

889
00:58:14,100 --> 00:58:17,700
you know, if you're struggling
with drug abuse.

890
00:58:17,700 --> 00:58:20,620
And then I think on the flip side,

891
00:58:20,620 --> 00:58:24,060
he's trapped in time, almost,
as Chandler Bing.

892
00:58:29,340 --> 00:58:31,700
Matthew Perry is the funniest person
in the whole world.

893
00:58:31,700 --> 00:58:33,060
On the planet.
Thank you very much.

894
00:58:33,060 --> 00:58:35,420
That's what keeps us an ensemble.
I mean that, actually.

895
00:58:35,420 --> 00:58:37,300
I'm saying it as a joke,
and I absolutely mean it.

896
00:58:37,300 --> 00:58:39,060
Ha! All right.
We all laugh at Matthew's jokes.

897
00:58:40,340 --> 00:58:43,820
There are very few things
in entertainment

898
00:58:43,820 --> 00:58:47,300
that are as ubiquitous as Friends.

899
00:58:47,300 --> 00:58:49,660
MAN:
Are you really actually friends?

900
00:58:49,660 --> 00:58:52,220
Yes, for the last time, we are all
actually good friends. Thank you.

901
00:58:52,220 --> 00:58:54,700
Thanks very much.
Thank you very much.

902
00:58:54,700 --> 00:58:58,540
The way the actors
and the characters and the ensemble

903
00:58:58,540 --> 00:59:03,180
touched people's lives, made
people feel like they had friends,

904
00:59:03,180 --> 00:59:05,620
even if they were alone
and feeling lonely.

905
00:59:05,620 --> 00:59:09,140
In the show, we see him
finally settle down with Monica.

906
00:59:09,140 --> 00:59:12,340
And you know,
I think they end up having twins.

907
00:59:12,340 --> 00:59:13,780
I think there is a sense

908
00:59:13,780 --> 00:59:16,980
of he never got
Chandler Bing's happy ending.

909
00:59:16,980 --> 00:59:19,660
Hey.
ROSS AND RACHEL: Hi.

910
00:59:19,660 --> 00:59:21,860
THEY GASP

911
00:59:22,940 --> 00:59:25,420
Hey, so what is the big surprise?

912
00:59:27,460 --> 00:59:28,820
HE GASPS

913
00:59:30,020 --> 00:59:32,300
OVERLAPPING CONVERSATION

914
00:59:32,300 --> 00:59:33,780
OK, OK, OK. Awkward question.

915
00:59:33,780 --> 00:59:35,460
The hospital knows you took two,
right?

916
00:59:36,940 --> 00:59:38,380
Yes, it's twins.

917
00:59:38,380 --> 00:59:40,580
Matthew, one more. Eyes right here.

918
00:59:45,180 --> 00:59:47,380
MORGAN: It was always interesting
to watch Matthew.

919
00:59:48,380 --> 00:59:50,740
He didn't seem like he was acting.

920
00:59:50,740 --> 00:59:53,460
It seemed
like he really was Chandler.

921
00:59:53,460 --> 00:59:54,540
Oh!
SHE GASPS

922
00:59:54,540 --> 00:59:56,100
Agh!

923
01:00:00,500 --> 01:00:02,140
Oh!

924
01:00:02,140 --> 01:00:06,060
Matthew's legacy
is always going to be

925
01:00:06,060 --> 01:00:09,940
the friendship
that he and the cast represented

926
01:00:09,940 --> 01:00:11,380
to people all over the world.

927
01:00:13,980 --> 01:00:17,380
His legacy
will be one of hope and joy

928
01:00:17,380 --> 01:00:19,580
and friendship and love.