Matthew Perry’s assistant Kenneth Iwamasa reportedly drove around in Perry’s car after the actor passed away in October 2023.
According to TMZ, Lisa Kallio, who worked for the Friends alumni association for nearly 30 years, wrote a letter to the judge ahead of Iwamasa’s sentencing hearing.
Kallio claimed in the letter that Iwamasa got into Perry’s car at 4 a.m., shortly after Perry died.
In a letter obtained by the outlet, she claimed, “I received the email at 4am as Kenny was driving Matthew’s car from his home in the Hollywood Hills to his home in the Palisades, and he loved it.”
Kallio accused Iwamasa of not taking care of the “17 Again” actor.
“His real concern was not to disrupt the lifestyle he was accustomed to,” he wrote, adding that he had read that Iwamasa allegedly “saw Matthew convulsing many times but never told any of us who care deeply about him,” according to TMZ.
“Kenny Iwamasa killed my friend,” Kallio claimed in the letter. “His narcissistic, reprehensible, irresponsible actions and psychopathic plan led him to heat up a Jacuzzi, give Matthew a giant shot as he requested, and leave him to die.”
Mr. Kallio, who worked with Perry to establish the Matthew Perry Foundation, claimed that Mr. Iwamasa “continued to seek a position at the foundation” after the “Ron Clark Story” star’s death.
In her letter, she claimed that Mr. Iwamasa said, “That’s what Matthew wanted.”
“No, it’s not,” she wrote. “Kenny had a lot of outrageous demands and expectations that I thought would be there for the rest of his life.”
Mr. Kallio concluded his letter. “Whatever sentence he gets, it won’t be long enough. He’ll always be known as the man who killed Matthew Perry. That should be some comfort.”
Perry was found dead in his Jacuzzi on October 28, 2023. He passed away at the age of 54.
The coroner said the “Fool’s Rush In” actor died from drowning, coronary artery disease, and the effects of buprenorphine, as well as “the acute effects of ketamine.”
In 2024, federal prosecutors charged five people with conspiracy and distribution of ketamine in Perry’s death.
Three of the defendants, Iwamasa, drug counselor Eric Fleming, and Dr. Mark Chavez, agreed to plead guilty.
Iwamasa is scheduled to be sentenced on Wednesday. He faces a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison, but he recently asked a judge for a more lenient punishment, arguing that he “simply cannot say no” to the late actor when it comes to drug addiction.
