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This programme contains some strong language.

How do you deal with the fame? It's a colossal kind of fame.

Well, yes. I can't really...can't really walk around

because I'm getting...I'm getting recognised all the time.

I think that may be because I walk outside of my flat and say,

"Hey, everyone, I'm Chandler from Friends!"

He was a comedy actor loved by millions.

Ww want to bring you some breaking news now from Southern California.

Hollywood is mourning the sudden death of Friends star Matthew Perry.

The 54-year-old found dead at his LA home on Saturday.

Authorities say he appeared to have drowned.

If I had written down on a piece of paper when I was 15 years old

everything I wanted, by the time I was 25, I had it.

He had been taking small amounts of ketamine to treat depression,

but when he was found in his hot tub,

the levels of the drug in his system were much higher.

I'm a drug addict, so this is what happens to me.

I start thinking about alcohol, I can't stop.

I can't stop thinking about it.

When Matthew Perry died,

the police arrested a woman known as the Ketamine Queen.

The woman dubbed the Ketamine Queen.

The Ketamine Queen.

The Ketamine Queen.

But who is this woman they say killed Matthew Perry?

My name's Amber Haque and I've come to Los Angeles

to find out the truth about Matthew Perry

and the Ketamine Queen.

I'm digging into the life of British-born Jasveen Sangha,

meeting her close friends, who've never spoken before...

She didn't need the money. She was never a kingpin.

She was never a big dealer.

..and the officers who investigated Matthew Perry's death.

Knowing that he was spiralling down that hole into

deeper addiction, they continued to supply his drugs.

Why? Based on greed.

I'll head into LA's toxic world of drugs and fame...

This thing is not for the faint of heart.

It will take so much longer to get three-days sober

than it will to get three-years sober. Mark my words.

My very first tattoo that I ever got says "No more fucking heroin".

It never stopped me, ever.

..and question the official story of how Matthew Perry died.

Mr Perry died as a result of the acute effects of ketamine.

I just don't understand the basis of that conclusion.

Just how responsible is this woman who was seduced

by the glamour of Hollywood?

I truly believe that Jasveen was addicted to that life

of the dealing to celebrities.

People would give anything for that, to taste that.

So, they say LA is a sunny place for shady people.

And as a journalist and a podcaster who covers a lot of crime,

I know looks can be deceiving.

Why is it that we just can't accept that,

like, good-looking people can do bad things?

So, when the BBC said they wanted to send me to Hollywood

to look into the Ketamine Queen, I jumped at the chance.

Who is this woman?

She was born in Essex, but how did she end up here?

And how did she become, in the words of prosecutors,

a prolific drug dealer to some of the most famous people in the world?

So, right now, Jasveen Sangha is in prison

and everyone in her world is reluctant to talk.

We obviously believe that she lived in this neighbourhood, right?

Oh, I'm really intrigued.

So, the first thing my producer, Jess, and I do

is head to her old apartment and start asking around.

So I was just speaking with this person -

lives in the area, knew Jasveen really well.

And she just said, you know, "She was, like, really glamorous.

"I can still remember her, like, blonde hair, blue eyes.

"She was really quite sweet."

But then she had this side of her that would just, like,

not care about the people around her, when she would have

these huge parties.

And they feel she never really properly lived here,

that this was almost like a stop house

for her to just deal out of.

Why did they feel that?

Like, did they just not see her that much or...?

She basically said that she would come and go quite a lot

and never really seemed settled.

She also said that they were in when the FBI raids were happening.

Officers uncover a huge stash of drugs - ketamine, cocaine, Xanax.

They even find a gun.

Clearly, this wasn't just a party pad.

But what else did police find out about Sangha?

I want to ask the man who led the investigation

for the Drug Enforcement Agency.

Yeah? Yeah, we are ready to go.

Bill, it'd be great to kick off if you could just give me

any sort of more insight into some of the drugs

that was found at Jasveen's premises.

She had a large quantity of drugs in her apartment.

She had almost 2,000 fake Adderall pills

made with methamphetamine,

almost 80 vials of ketamine.

In October 2023, when Matthew Perry died,

I was the special agent in charge of the DEA's Los Angeles office,

so I was the office head.

Why in all of this case is Jasveen Sangha described

as the Ketamine Queen?

In essence, she's the kingpin -

a professional drug dealer with a big supply of drugs.

She had sold ketamine that killed another individual

back in August 2019,

and she had sold the ketamine that killed Matthew Perry.

She was running a somewhat large drug-trafficking operation,

catering to the Hollywood elite.

The money gave her the ability to put forth

this social media jet-set lifestyle persona.

And that ingratiated her to her clientele.

How long had Jasveen Sangha been running things?

At least since 2019.

We know Sangha has been in the ketamine business since 2019

because the government alleged in the charging documents

that she had killed another gentleman in August of 2019

named Cody McLaury.

Good morning. My name is Martin Estrada,

United States Attorney based in Los Angeles.

These investigators did a phenomenal job to develop

a strong case against

not only those who killed Mr Perry,

but also Mr McLaury.

Jasveen sounds like a ruthless dealer.

She's being linked to another drug death before Matthew Perry,

and she's using the cash from selling drugs

to fund her luxury lifestyle.

From what I can see, her grandparents were fashion retail

multi-millionaires from East London

and her parents had ran a series of KFC franchises.

She went to UC Irvine, a top university,

and she did an MBA in London.

So, here's what doesn't add up.

Jasveen seems to come from a wealthy family.

No evidence I can find of any previous crimes.

So, how does a woman like that end up as the drug kingpin in this case?

So, none of Jasveen's friends have ever spoken publicly.

Then I get a breakthrough.

Tony has a conviction for drug trafficking

and he's ready to talk.

Yeah, it's sounding good here as well. All good.

Great. Just a little bit of chit-chat's good.

We're rolling.

OVERLAPPING SPEECH

Hey, Tony. How's it going?Amber. How are you doing?

Nice to meet you, Amber.Come on in. Awesome.

We are just going to chat through here

in the living room, actually. OK.

They set us up here. It's fortunately quite nice.

I'm Jessica. Lovely to meet you.

Yeah, grab a seat there.

Thank you. How are you doing? I'm great, actually.

Perfect day.

Yeah. Get comfy.

Nice tattoos.

Yeah. So, I was like, "I probably need to cover them."

My mom would tell me I got to cover them.

I really appreciate this,

this opportunity to tell my side of the story

of who Jasveen really was.

She is not what the media says she is.

She was never a kingpin. She was never a big dealer.

I just think she was a scapegoat.

She came from money. She didn't need the money. But she loved...

..she loved doing ketamine, just like all of us.

So, can you remember when you and Jasveen first met?

And, like, what sort of impression did she make on you?

I guess it first started in the club scene.

My girlfriend got to talking to her and we were...

We became, like, a group of a couple of friends.

We would always meet at Avalon.

It's an EDM, like, after-hours spot in LA,

which... It opened, like, at nine

and it'd end, like, six, seven in the morning.

We were either taking pills, or, you know,

doing some ketamine, or, you know,

just anything that was allowed there, I guess you could say.

# With this ring, I thee wed

# With all my worldly goods I thee endow... #

Then we rented... There's a bar across the street -

we rented that out, so when everybody got out of Avalon,

all you had to do was walk across the street to the next party.

# To love and to cherish according to God's holy ordinance... #

We would have all the best DJs and all the best equipment.

Like, anywhere we want to do something,

we have everything you want, you know?

What about celebrities?

Like, would you guys party with the celebs in town?

Obviously, LA has got a lot of celebrities.

Of course. And that's what those after-afterparties were.

You guys had this nickname, the Kitties -

K because of the ketamine?

Yes. Yeah, because we liked to do ketamine, right? You know.

Were you guys doing it quite a lot at that point?

Yeah, we were doing a lot.

I used to love to inject it.

HE LAUGHS

But I remember...at that point when we were really into it,

we were trying all types of tranquillizer.

We had some rhino tranquillizer from South Africa.

We had horse tranquillizer.

But...I never did the rhino one.

I was like, "No, no, I'm not...

"..I'm not ready for the rhino."

# With this ring, I thee wed

# With all my worldly goods I thee endow... #

AMBER: Did anyone in your world know her by that name,

the nickname, Ketamine Queen?

No, that's...that's just what the media said,

which is...stupid. It's just ridiculous.

Like, no-one knows her as that.

Cos the authorities said this nickname, the Ketamine Queen,

has come from interactions between her and others.

No, I believe they said that just cos, when they raided

her place and she had, like, all these drugs,

so, like, "Oh, she must be a cartel dealer,"

or, like, "She must be a big person,"

which is totally false. Absolutely...absolutely not.

And do you have any sense, Tony, of the amount that Jasveen was moving?

Like, what kind of quantities of drugs she was dealing?

No, absolutely not.

I never thought that she'd be the one dealing, you know.

But do we have...do we have access to anything?

To everything? Yes. Yes, we did. You know?

Was quantity an issue?

No. We all had access to everything.

You know? If I didn't have it, then he had it.

If she didn't have it, then I could get it, you know?

And we just did it together.

I'm not exactly shocked that Jasveen and her friends

were doing ketamine for fun.

It's become a massive drug in the rave scene here in the States.

This crew clearly partied hard

and they had easy access to serious amounts of drugs.

What is surprising, though, is that somehow none of them knew

that Jasveen was dealing it on the side.

I'm finding it all a bit hard to believe.

I need to speak to somebody else who knows her well.

DOORBELL RINGS

Hey, Jash, how are you? Nice to meet you.

Good to see you. Come in! It's just up there.

We're just out here on the terrace.

I was thinking we could sit and have a chat with a view.

It's perfect.

AMBER LAUGHS

Yeah, we're...Yeah?

Well, let's just ease into things, really.

So, when did you and Jasveen first meet?

It was during our time at college at UC Irvine.

We both started attending in 2001.

All our interactions were usually around, like,

when we were usually partying together.

She loved to dance and have a good time.

Did she tell you that she was under investigation?

Did you know, like, she'd been arrested? No.

She hadn't spoken anything about it.

I didn't know anything about, you know,

her operation or anything like that. Absolutely nothing.

To some people, they hear "drug dealer",

they see that quantity of narcotics

and they think, "This is a woman who has ruined people's lives

"and is profiteering off people's misery."

What kind of person was she?

I don't think she would have wanted these situations

to happen for anybody.

She's just somebody that, by nature, I feel like likes to take care of,

like, people and, you know, just servicing a need. I don't...

She doesn't really have any malice in her heart.

Matthew Perry was loved by people around the world,

and I think some people feel that we need to be careful to not blame him,

that he had an illness and he was...

You know, he had an addiction, basically,

and people feel that the drug dealers took advantage of that.

Mmm.

Like, I don't think that they were the ones

that initiated the transaction, though.

And I'm not here to victim-blame.

Like, I've heard that Matt Perry is a great guy.

He was on treatment for ketamine, right?

Like, and so...At first, yeah.

If we think about, like...

..someone that has an addictive personality,

then why would we put them into a treatment

knowing that this could be something that they can also abuse?

If you know that this someone is an addict by nature,

why introduce them to another substance that you know

is potentially addictive?

I think that's kind of where we kind of need to focus on,

where things went wrong.

Jash makes an interesting point.

Matthew Perry's introduction to ketamine

didn't come from a street dealer.

He got it prescribed legally.

Driving through LA, I've been listening

to Matthew Perry's autobiography.

He says that he was getting ketamine as a treatment

and that it all began in a luxury rehab in Europe.

So, what's really going down in these luxury rehabs?

How common is it for them

to give ketamine to people battling addiction?

I've managed to get inside one.

Hey, Nick. Hi.How are you? I'm good.

Good to see you.Nice to finally meet you.

Yeah, thanks for coming. I appreciate it.

This is so beautiful. Oh, thanks!

Nick Mathews runs several up-market rehabs

across the whole of Los Angeles.

Well, this is actually our new location.OK.

So why don't I show you around a little bit?Yeah, please. Yeah?

So, here's an example of the rooms.

Generally, two to a room.

Ah, so you have people sharing as well?

Oftentimes, it's actually really good for somebody.

To feel like you're in it together, going through things together,

that you can relate to what each other is going through?

Yeah.Yeah. Yeah, exactly.

There's very few things more serene than just nature in general.

So, being in Malibu, we're so close to the ocean.

Then being up here, it's just lush and green and vibrant.

It's just pure serenity.

How much does it cost to come here, Nick?

Sure. It can be very expensive.

So, you can imagine, 24/7 operation,

fully staffed - these are not inexpensive places to run.

If you're paying entirely privately, it's about $80,000 for the month.

The first time that Matthew Perry tried ketamine,

it was actually in a rehabilitation centre.

Do you feel that was appropriate for him to have received ketamine there?

Hmm.

I can say this.

I can say that I don't believe that...

..I would ever allow one of my residents

to start ketamine therapy while they're here.

The data shows that ketamine therapy can be hugely beneficial

for treating depression in the right candidates.

I know people that swear by it.

And I know physicians that do it remarkably well.

However, ketamine has very high abuse potential.

It is a tranquillizer and it gets you wildly high.

And it's a good high. It's enjoyable.

I used to abuse ketamine,

so I have kind of an interesting perspective on it.

You can build a habit, you can become addicted.

It's also something that's readily available on the street.

So, you could theoretically go and get a ketamine treatment

and it's done correctly

and you really liked the way that it made you feel,

so then you get a dealer and you start doing it at your house.

And in your mind, you're just continuing the treatment

that you already experienced.

Do you think, if I was a big-time celebrity -

I have the money, the power, the fame -

that it's harder to kind of say no to me in some facilities

when I say I want more drugs?

Yeah. Yeah, I imagine so.

And a lot of that, I think, really boils down to...integrity.

Right? And that's kind of the scariest thing for me,

from treatment facilities, from ketamine doctors,

from any doctor in general, is, does your integrity...

Is your integrity as important to you as your bank account?

I really hope so. And everybody will say yes,

if you ask them that question.

Nobody is going to admit that it's not the case.

Matthew Perry's own words back this up.

The same luxury rehab that introduced him to ketamine

also freely gave him prescription drugs.

It just seems weird to me that expensive places meant

to help you get clean can end up giving you addictive drugs.

How does it work when you're not paying tens of thousands a week?

I'm heading to a free rehab.

Money and celebrity don't mean anything here.

All right, let me walk you in.

This is one of our male dorms.

They're all kind of set up the same way.

So, they are set up dorm living.

In this dorm, they're given the drawers.

They're given access to a room to hold their clothes.

Hygiene - in there, we have their bathroom and shower.

They're given a washer and dryer.

So, they have all the amenities that they need to be able to live.

All their basic needs are provided through us.

I wanted to also introduce you guys to Brandon.

Hey, Brandon. It'd be great to talk to you.

So, Brandon, how have you been doing? I've been...I've been OK.

I've...I've done this a bunch of times.

This is probably my 20-something programme.

OK. It's a great programme, though.

Does Los Angeles have a drug problem?

Oh, my God.

BRANDON CHUCKLES

OK, that was pretty certain.

LAUGHS: Yeah! It's...

..it's become a really, like, terrible place.

Do you relate to anything that Matthew Perry went through?

Yeah, yeah. He was doing a lot of ketamine.

And he thought that, you know, "Oh, this way might, like,

"fix me or whatever." And I relate to that a lot.

And, you know, he was just one of us.

He was a drug addict and, you know,

he came from a different background,

but...addiction doesn't discriminate.

So it's hard to picture Matthew Perry here,

but would he have found it more difficult to get drugs?

One of the problems with the high-end programmes

is that they almost coddle the patients.

And people feel...that they don't have to...

..they don't have to suffer or feel any of the consequences

of their addiction, their alcoholism.

And I think it's important for people to have some consequences

to this behaviour.

In his book, one of the things Matthew Perry describes, actually,

was an instance when he went to rehab.

They gave him pretty heavy painkillers.

1,800mg of hydrocodone.

That's what he says in the book. Yeah. That's how much he was on.

What do you think about that? I don't know how you get that much.

I mean, it only comes in a 10mg pill.

I don't know how you get that much in you.

I mean, he must have been swallowing just handfuls of pills all day long.

Do you think he should have been given

that amount of that kind of drug? Well, no.

I mean, that's well beyond what anybody recommends giving.

I don't know what he was...

Basically, he was just given that much to feed an addiction,

to keep him from going into withdrawal.

And if I was one of your patients here,

I come to you and say, "Dr Holmes, just one more time.

"Please, let me have what I want,"

what are you going to say to me?

You mean... Would you like more drugs?Yeah. More pain pills?

If I come to you and say... I would say... You would say no.

No is a complete sentence.

In rehab, Matthew Perry says

he was getting ketamine infusions every day.

But from what I'm hearing in his book,

he didn't actually enjoy it.

We now know that he didn't quit ketamine.

Looking into the police reports, even after he leaves rehab in 2021,

Matthew Perry continued ketamine therapy...

..not from rehabs now, but from ketamine clinics.

And here's the thing about LA - I see them everywhere.

Oh, I reckon that might be one, you know.

Really?

Let me have a look.

It's actually not that expensive compared to the other ones.

So, it's saying $100 a session.

So how easy is it to get ketamine in one of these places?

I believe there is a place for ketamine

in the wellness world, if done correctly,

if given at appropriate doses, not high doses,

and if people are screened correctly.

Anybody that is going through something -

it doesn't have to be chronic depression or lifelong depression,

but going through, for example, a divorce,

losing their job, not being able to find a job -

a lot of these type of people can benefit

from ketamine because it can offer new perspectives and new motivation.

BEEPING

For somebody like Matthew Perry - you know,

self-confessed had a history of substance abuse,

struggled with addiction for many years of his life -

why was ketamine therapy

an appropriate thing for him to have had?

Ketamine was appropriate for Matthew Perry for multiple reasons.

I believe he had chronic pain from multiple abdominal surgeries,

so ketamine does help with chronic pain.

And ketamine can also, for lack of a better phrase,

make a person even-keeled.

Do you think Matthew Perry was addicted to ketamine?

I do believe he was addicted to ketamine,

only because he was paying whatever needed to be paid

to get it from someone who was giving him

unlimited amounts of ketamine.

I don't believe the act of going to a ketamine clinic

played a role in his addiction,

because certain ketamine clinics could have

just given him limited doses and limited infusions per month,

and that would not have contributed to addiction -

that would have been therapeutic.

This clinic is working within the guidelines,

but according to a police report,

Matthew Perry had been getting ketamine treatment every other day.

Matthew Perry sought treatment for depression and anxiety

and went to a local clinic

where he became addicted to intravenous ketamine.

Matthew Perry's drug use was out of control.

He needed help.

By 2023, Matthew Perry has been using ketamine for three years.

In the spring, he's told by one of his doctors

that he no longer needs ketamine therapy for his depression.

It could have been his chance to quit the drug,

but Matthew Perry was an addict and he was vulnerable.

Instead, he goes looking for doctors who were prepared

to feed his growing ketamine addiction.

What do we know about the weeks leading up

to when Matthew Perry died?

What was going on in his life at the time?

You know, it was tragic. That's really the best way to describe it.

It was spiralling down deeper into addiction.

His personal assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa,

someone who worked for him for 25 years,

that person enabled him, injected him with ketamine,

went out and found sources of the drug and actually supplied the drug

to Matthew Perry. Six weeks before his death,

it was a couple of doctors -

Dr Mark Chavez and Dr Salvador Plasencia -

and how they would operate was Chavez would obtain the ketamine,

either by ordering it from a wholesaler and falsifying

some of the information on the order form,

or he would write bogus prescriptions for the drug

and get those prescriptions filled.

Two individuals that took an oath to do no harm,

to protect patients above all else,

they were actually abandoning their ethics for the dollar.

You know, they'd given up their ethics in return

for making a buck off Matthew Perry when he needed their help the most.

And there's an incident involving one of these doctors

just weeks before Matthew Perry's death.

On October 12th, 2023,

Salvador Plasencia injected Matthew Perry,

and he had what I would think is a near-fatal overdose.

He lost the ability to talk and move,

and his blood pressure spiked.

Plasencia was charging huge amounts of money for this ketamine.

I mean, it was price gouging.

It was really an exploitive relationship.

At one point, Plasencia even text messaged Dr Chavez

and says something to the effect,

"Let's see what we can get this moron to pay."

I mean, that goes to show you

that this was not a doctor-patient relationship, right?

This was a drug dealer who was trying to exploit a victim,

an addict.

The corrupt doctor-celebrity relationship

has been an open secret here for years.

But getting people to talk is tough.

I need someone who understands this world from the inside.

I'm Brandon Novak, and this is Doo Doo Falls.

HE SHRIEKS

Thank God for that fucking helmet.

I grew up watching Brandon Novak on wild MTV shows,

like Jackass and Viva La Bam.

He couldn't be more different now, though,

running sober living centres.

Hey, Brandon! Hey, how are you? Amber. Good to see you. You made it.

What's happening, everybody?

Good morning, good morning. How are we feeling? How are we doing today?

This thing is not for the faint of heart.

It will take so much longer to get three-days sober

than it will to get three-years sober. Mark my words.

I was a homeless heroin addict that lived in abandoned houses, right?

My days were spent standing on the corner,

prostituting my body.

My nights were spent sleeping in a shooting gallery in West Baltimore.

I didn't have any things, except, at the end, all I owned was

eight scarves, two jackets, three socks,

a stick of deodorant, a needle, a spoon and a restraining order.

Nowadays, Brandon lives a much more chilled life...

..in the woods, with his cats.

Did you ever try ketamine?

Yeah. I loved ketamine.

I used to get ketamine from a crooked veterinarian.

Having people who just say yes to you all the time,

was that a reality for you as a celebrity,

being surrounded by yes people?

You know, I had the ability to be connected with specific doctors

who, you know, would write me the scripts that I need.

I would play up who I was to get what I wanted.

So, it was always kind of like, I'm this guy from those movies

that is, you know, really busy,

and I have kind of a successful life going on,

and this isn't what I would normally do.

But right now, I just am really sore from a thing that we filmed,

and it should be airing next month.

You know, just kind of dropping these subtle hints

to a doctor who's just like, "Oh, wow, I have this guy here."

And there is some truth to what I'm saying

because, like, I am who I am, so it's not like I'm lying.

So, they were definitely a bit more generous with the pad to write it.

And then once you get into that world,

you kind of find the crooked doctors who you just go and you sit down,

and they don't move from their chair,

and they kind of have a script that they follow,

and they just write you what you want.

It's a cash-ran business only, so they don't ask any questions,

You pay and you get.

Do you think when you are rich and famous,

it can make it more complicated because you do have the money?

One billion percent. Absolutely.

There's two different worlds.

And you're not going to understand it

until you've experienced it, you know.

There's not repercussions to be had

like it would be for a normal person, quote unquote.

Brandon showed me that if you're famous,

some doctors are happy to get you high, instead of giving you help.

But Matthew Perry's doctors, they get greedy.

Plasencia and Chavez are charging up to $2,000 a vial.

He now needs a cheaper source -

and this is when he finds the Ketamine Queen.

By the 2020s, Jasveen's hard-partying lifestyle

is starting to catch up with her.

With all these years that everyone in your group was taking drugs,

did anyone go to rehab? Did anyone try to get clean?

Or did it become a problem at any point for people?

I know that Jasveen did.

OK. So, there was a period of time

where Jasveen herself went to rehab -

do you know for drug addiction? Yes. That's the one thing...

I'm pretty sure that or alcohol.

Yeah, her family knew something was happening, you know.

They found her with drugs, and they sent her to rehab.

But she could afford, or her family could afford,

like, the best ones, you know?

The ones where all the celebrities are at.

Jasveen's lawyer has denied she ever met Matthew Perry,

but she was starting to move in some of Hollywood's

most exclusive celebrity circles.

She wouldn't be at the normal clubs, you know.

She'd be on a different level now.

The Hollywood Hills, off Sunset Boulevard,

trendy, you know, little restaurants,

hang-outs where celebrities are at.

And I was happy for her, I'm like, "Hell, yeah, girl."

Dude, you gotta do it. That's a hustle, you know.

Did she enjoy that? Who wouldn't?

You know, if you could be friends with, like, a certain actor

that you would see on TV every day and that's really famous,

like, why wouldn't you enjoy being around them?

And why do you think these celebrities

liked to have Jasveen around?

Well, she has access to what they don't, you know.

What is that?

Like, it could be any drugs.

Cos, you know, we come from the after-hours scene,

so the people that we know from different grimy parts, or whatever,

where we could get... We had access with these drugs,

because we know this person, this person, this person.

Jasveen talked about going to her "scientist"

and that she would have very pure stuff.

Yeah. Scientist basically is a code name

for being the veterinarian, you know? That'd be the scientist.

Now, with fentanyl going around, like,

we wanted to go to the source where it's the most pure

because this is what I'm putting in my body.

I'm not going to take that chance, right?

So, you know, the easiest way where, especially, I know,

it's in Mexico, you know -

veterinarians or pharmacies in Mexico.

Would Jasveen do that?

No. I...wouldn't know of that, of Jasveen doing that.

But do we have access? Do we have people that did it? Yes.

So, it sounds like from what you're saying

that Jasveen's knee-deep at this point, she's dealing to the stars.

Was she still getting high and taking the drugs herself, though?

Yeah, I'm pretty...

Yes. I'm pretty sure, because that's what she liked to do, you know?

And since you have, like, abundance, and it doesn't cost you anything,

because everybody is paying for it, really,

because you're charging them.

What I just don't get, though, is, if Jasveen had it all already -

in terms of money, good family, good education -

why would she risk it all doing this?

That's what blows my mind as well.

I would have... Out of all of our circle group,

I would never have thought Jasveen would be dealing, you know.

If I had to put myself in her shoes, I would say if...

Even if she wasn't...

Say, a celebrity asked her, "Do you know where I could get a whatever?",

even if I wasn't a dealer, like, I'll turn a dealer right there.

I'll turn into a dealer right there for you.

I think what she got addicted to was being in that role,

being in that social status, being that go-to,

the dealer for these people.

So, you think, really,

Jasveen was addicted to the high of dealing to these celebrities?

Yes. 1,000%.

I truly believe that Jasveen was addicted to that life of the dealing

to celebrities, because that's a high in itself.

You know, wanting to be wanted by someone with that status,

that everybody knows, you'd want to do anything for that person.

By October 2023, Matthew Perry's addiction had met Jasveen's supply.

Through Erik Fleming, a middleman,

Sangha provides Iwamasa with over 50 vials of ketamine.

Dr Plasencia, meanwhile, keeps trying to push his drugs

on to Perry's assistant.

A day later, Iwamasa injects Perry at least three times.

And after the third injection, at approximately 1.30pm,

Iwamasa leaves Perry alone in the house for more than two hours.

TV REPORTER: The actor Matthew Perry, best known as Chandler from Friends,

has died.

Police responded to a 911 call at 4.07 local time.

The 54-year-old actor was found in a hot tub

at his home in Los Angeles.

He'd taken the drug ketamine.

I'm going to meet a man who knew Matthew Perry

for almost his entire life.

Hi, Greg.

INDISTINCT CONVERSATION

I believe we should have sympathy for Matthew Perry.

He tried to get sober a number of times

and was successful, and unsuccessful,

but always there was a desire to break the cycle.

My life is... I'm a drug addict.

If I have a drink, I can't stop.

So, this is what happens to me.

I start thinking about alcohol, I can't stop.

I can't stop thinking about it.

Somebody needed to grab hold of him and shake him

and say, "What are you trying to do here?"

Remember the feeling that you had when you were onstage in Grade 7?

That's the feeling that you want to keep,

the feeling of excellence.

Who, underneath it all, do you think Matthew really was?

Did he stand out from all the other kids you'd seen before?

When I first met Matthew, it was in grade 7 dramatic arts,

and I was doing improv.

I thought he was excellent.

That's when I said, "Have you ever thought about auditioning?

"Would you be willing to have a look at this part?"

So, he did.

And according to Matthew's own words,

that made him realise that acting, that's what he wanted to do,

that this was a place that he could say he belonged.

How often would you speak or stay in contact?

Probably once or twice every couple of years.

Whenever he was up, he would come by.

So, he would just turn up sometimes to see you, drop by?

Yeah, absolutely.

What was it like for you, reading his book

and seeing and understanding some of those things?

I didn't like it.

Oh, OK. I found myself tearing up a little bit.

Because, to me, Matthew was a great kid.

And I've got nothing to say that's not good about him.

I believe that when he was suffering,

he could easily be exploited.

No question about it.

Five people have been charged in connection with the death

of the Friends star Matthew Perry.

The doctors, Plasencia and Chavez, pleaded guilty

to supplying Matthew Perry with ketamine.

His assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa,

along with Jasveen Sangha and her associate, Erik Fleming,

were also charged with causing Perry's death.

By June this year, all of them had pleaded guilty, except one -

Sangha.

Her lawyer argued there was no way of knowing

whose ketamine killed Matthew Perry.

This theory that the so-called fatal dose

is somehow linked to my client is absolute garbage.

And online I started seeing speculation and confusion

around the official cause of death.

Was the ketamine actually responsible?

So much of the reporting around Matthew Perry's death

has suggested he died of a ketamine overdose.

The Friends star died after an overdose of the drug ketamine.

When he was found in his hot tub,

the levels of the drug in his system were much higher.

And his medical examiner's report states that he died

from the acute effects of ketamine.

This suggests that the drug alone killed him.

But further down, it says that a contributing condition

is also drowning.

How did he actually die?

Did the ketamine kill him?

I need to try and answer some of these questions,

so I reach out to a toxicologist at one of America's top hospitals.

This is Matthew Perry's autopsy report.

I know you have had a read of this before.

If we could just break stuff down, go through it,

you give your opinion on what you read here, that would be great.

Yes. So, this medical examiner concluded

that the cause of death was acute effects of ketamine,

and that's their words.

And they stated that other conditions contributing

but not related to the immediate cause of death

were drowning, coronary artery disease,

buprenorphine effects.

My interpretation is that

his death was a result of drowning because he took ketamine,

sadly, in a pool and lost consciousness.

To me, I would have expected to see that the cause of death

was from drowning,

or drowning caused by ketamine use in a pool.

So, let's say Matthew Perry had been laid

that night in his bed, or on his sofa,

let's say, instead of being in that hot tub.

Is it your opinion that he would still be alive?

Yes. I think more likely than not, he would still be alive.

If Kenneth Iwamasa hadn't left Matthew Perry,

he might still be alive.

But does this actually change anything for Jasveen?

The only way to get answers

is to ask the people bringing the case against her...

Good morning. My name is Martin Estrada

of the United States Attorney...

..and I've got a meeting with the man leading it, Martin Estrada.

I wanted to talk to you about a conversation

that I've had with a respected clinical toxicologist,

who has reviewed Matthew Perry's autopsy report.

He says he believes it is a mistake to say

that Matthew Perry died of the acute effects of the ketamine

and, in fact, in his opinion,

he feels certain that Matthew Perry drowned

and that ketamine was a contributing factor in his death,

rather than the primary cause.

What do you make of his opinion?

So, I really can't comment on his opinion

because I haven't reviewed his report

or the basis for his report.

I know that the reports we relied on did find

that Mr Perry died as a result of the acute effects of ketamine.

That being said, as a legal matter, it doesn't matter,

because for prosecution,

all that's required to be proved is that,

if not for the distribution of the ketamine,

the death would not have occurred.

Here, there's no question, whether it be drowning,

whether it be the acute effects of ketamine,

that the distribution of ketamine to Mr Perry

was the cause of his death.

Moreover, I want to make the point that we discovered through

this investigation that Miss Sangha was not a first-time drug dealer.

She'd been doing this for many, many years.

In fact, several years before Mr Perry's death,

she distributed ketamine to another victim, Cody McLaury.

He's not famous. He's not well known.

But nonetheless, his life matters, too.

And for that reason,

we specifically named him in the indictment

to make sure that his family would get some justice as well.

And in Cody's case,

how did the prosecution determine that the ketamine

that Jasveen Sangha had supplied ultimately resulted in his death?

We learned from telephone records,

from text messages about the distribution to Mr McLaury.

We also learned from messages that his sister had sent to Miss Sangha,

that she was, in fact, told that Mr McLaury died

as a result of ketamine.

The prosecution's view is firm.

Whether Matthew Perry drowned or the ketamine alone killed him,

it doesn't matter legally.

But what about the claim that Jasveen's drugs killed Cody McLaury?

I'm taking Cody's autopsy report to toxicologist Andrew Stolbach.

Hey, Andrew. Hi.Good to see you again. How are you? Good to see you.

So let's just go through what this report shows

about how Cody died.

Yeah. So we're looking at Cody McLaury's autopsy report.

And so what you see on the top line,

it says the death is ascribed to acute ketamine,

heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine toxicity.

So this medical examiner in this case

is saying that they're all equal.

They're saying that Cody McLaury died of an accident

and it's listing four different types of drugs here

as the primary cause of death.

Do you agree with that?

I would have attributed this death primarily to heroin.

Why? Heroin is an opioid,

and opioids are involved in nearly all overdose deaths,

the vast majority of overdose deaths.

On the autopsy, which is, like, the postmortem physical exam,

they find a bilateral pulmonary congestion and oedema.

So, it's fluid in your lungs. And that is a finding

that can be typically seen with opioid overdose.

And what you'll see here is that the heroin is within range of

what would typically be...could be attributed to somebody's death.

Whereas the ketamine, the methamphetamine

and the cocaine - it actually was a cocaine metabolite -

all those were lower than

what you're typically seeing in deaths attributed to those.

So, I think, for me, the combination of those three things

makes the heroin, really, the main cause of death here.

So, in your opinion, did Cody McLaury die of a ketamine overdose?

No. In my opinion, this is an opioid overdose

in somebody that was also using ketamine.

Whatever part Jasveen played in the death of Cody McLaury,

we know what happened next.

Jasmine was sent a text by Cody McLaury's sister,

saying her ketamine had killed him.

She carried on selling drugs anyway.

Did Jasveen ever talk to you about what happened with Cody McLaury?

No.

If I was her, I wouldn't tell anybody either.

Or people that I love, you know?

But that should have been a red flag.

That should have been a wake-up call, like, "Oh, this is serious."

Like, she was dealing with the devil.

The news about Cody McLaury's death doesn't help Jasveen's reputation,

especially at a key moment when she is saying

that she's innocent in the Matthew Perry case.

Then, nine months after his death, another significant blow.

Erik Fleming, the man who delivered Jasveen's ketamine

to Kenneth Iwamasa, pleads guilty.

The most damning evidence would have been the statements

of Erik Fleming, without a doubt.

If he were to testify and...

..describe in detail every drug transaction,

every time he went and picked up ketamine from Sangha

and delivered it to Iwamasa to be injected into Matthew Perry,

I think it's very difficult

to overcome that kind of in-person testimony.

A woman known as the Ketamine Queen has admitted providing drugs

that contributed to the death of the Friends TV star Matthew Perry.

Jasveen Sangha, also known as the Ketamine Queen,

is facing some serious federal charges here

that could send her to prison for quite a long time.

Jasveen Sangha faces 65 years in prison -

the longest potential sentence of anyone involved.

She's always accepted responsibility.

The biggest hurdle in this case has always been that,

from my standpoint at least,

I thought the government was turning the responsibility in this case

on its head.

Why is she in custody and the people,

whether it's medical professionals

or the people who are administering the drug, are out?

Dr Mark Chavez forged prescriptions

and, together with Plasencia,

he charged Perry almost ten times the price of Sangha's ketamine.

He's facing ten years.

Dr Salvador Plasencia texted,

"I wonder how much this moron will pay?"

He injected Matthew Perry until he lost consciousness

and he was still trying to push it on him a day before he died.

He has received 30 months.

Hey, Alison. I'm Amber. Good to see you.

Alison Margolin is a defence attorney here in LA

who specialises in drug cases.

I don't think that the sentence exposure

reflects her culpability at all.

The US attorney isn't really...

They're not making a moral analysis of culpability.

They're charging the maximum they can,

and whoever fits the bill, they'll go for.

But I do think there's a difference between doctors

in a caretaking position who are profiting off of a patient

that they know is a drug addict

and providing them with substances they know can cause...

Like, this thing that happened with Matthew Perry,

I think most doctors who are in this realm

know that that's something that's foreseeable.

That's not... The foreseeability of it

is not an issue in terms of the law,

but in terms of morally, I think that's an issue.

Who is most responsible for Matthew Perry's death?

If you looked at the media reports, you would think Jasveen Sangha.

She's the Ketamine Queen.

But the reality is she had no relationship with Matthew Perry.

She didn't live in the same house with Matthew Perry.

She hadn't been with him for 25 years.

She hadn't seen his struggles

with addiction and maintaining sobriety.

And, really, she'd never taken an oath to do no harm to patients,

as the two doctors did in this case.

I feel like the two most culpable individuals in this case

are the doctors, because knowing that he was battling addiction,

knowing that he was going spiralling down that hole into

deeper addiction, they continued to supply his drugs.

Why? Based on greed.

And I think that's a part that's been lost on this case

is, yes, Sangha's a drug dealer, a sizeable drug dealer,

but still the doctors and the live-in assistant knew this person

and could have done something just on a human level

to help this person when he was in need.

Before I leave, I want to visit Matthew Perry's neighbours

so I can see the place where he spent his final moments.

Hello! Hi, Bella! Hi, Peter. How are you doing?

I'm doing well.Amber. Good to see you. Wow!

This...this is spectacular.

Nobody really bothers anybody here.

No, it's a perfect place.

If he was looking to have a beautiful place that's quiet and...

You know, like, we were not the kind of person who would ever...

We knew who he was, but we weren't ever going to bother him.

And people are sophisticated here.

It's kind of a very nice place to live,

if you don't want to be bothered,

you want to enjoy the quiet and the beauty.Yeah.

You know, you can tell it's somewhere you move

to have, like, a little oasis of calm,

which is an escape from the madness of LA.

You know, this is a nice neighbourhood

and he was no different. He was...

We saw him a couple times and he was both...

You know, he was...he was a good guy, you know,

and it's tragic that he died so early.

So it just seems like a tragedy, you know?

# First, you made for me a river

# So I would have earth... #

After weeks in LA, something has become clear.

Jasveen Sangha is a drug dealer

and she is responsible for Matthew Perry's death.

But she isn't the only one.

He was enabled by corrupt doctors, who kept giving him drugs,

and an assistant who abandoned him at his most vulnerable.

Matthew Perry had a lifelong struggle with addiction

and he deserved better from the people around him.

# But I'm so lonely

# So lonely

# When everything dies Can you stay with me? #