Matthew Perry’s assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa, drove round within the actor’s automobile after his October 2023 demise.
Lisa Calio, who labored for the “Pals” alum for shut to a few many years, wrote a letter to the choose forward of the sentencing listening to for Iwamasa, based on TMZ.
Within the letter, Calio claimed Iwamasa went on a experience in Perry’s automobile at 4 a.m. — shortly after the actor handed away.
“I obtained a textual content from Kenny at 4 a.m. as he was driving considered one of Matthew’s vehicles from the home within the Hollywood Hills to the home within the Palisades. And he was loving it,” she wrote within the letter obtained by the outlet.
Calio slammed Iwamasa for not taking care of the “17 Once more” actor.
“His true concern was not upsetting the life-style to which he’d grow to be accustomed,” she wrote, per TMZ, including that she learn that Iwamasa allegedly “watched Matthew seize up greater than as soon as and by no means instructed any of us who cared so deeply for Matthew.”
“Kenny Iwamasa killed my good friend,” Calio alleged in her letter. “His narcissistic, outrageous, irresponsible habits, his psychotic plan, brought about him to warmth up the jacuzzi, give Matthew the enormous shot he requested and go away him alone to die.”
Calio, who labored alongside Perry to construct his Matthew Perry Basis, claimed Iwamasa was “persistent in wanting a place within the Basis” after the “Ron Clark Story” star’s demise.
She claimed within the letter that Iwamasa mentioned, “That was what Matthew needed.”
“No, it wasn’t,” she penned. “Kenny had many outrageous requests and expectations that he thought would proceed for the remainder of his life.”
Calio concluded her letter, writing, “No matter sentence he receives, it gained’t be lengthy sufficient. He’ll at all times be generally known as the person who killed Matthew Perry. I suppose there needs to be some consolation in that.”
Perry was discovered lifeless in his jacuzzi on Oct. 28, 2023. He was 54.
A coroner introduced that the “Fools Rush In” actor died from “acute results of ketamine,” along with drowning, coronary artery illness and buprenorphine results.
In 2024, federal prosecutors charged 5 folks with conspiracy and distribution of ketamine, inflicting Perry’s demise.
Three of the defendants — Iwamasa, drug counselor Erik Fleming, and Dr. Mark Chavez — agreed to plead responsible.
Iwamasa is about to be sentenced on Wednesday. Although he’s dealing with as much as 15 years in jail, he not too long ago requested the choose for leniency, insisting that he couldn’t “merely say no” to the late actor when it got here to his drug habit.
