Matthew Perry’s Parents Slam ‘Greedy’ Doctor as ‘Most Culpable of All’

Nearly two years after Friends icon Matthew Perry’s shocking death, his grieving parents are speaking out — and they’re pointing the finger directly at one man: the doctor who supplied him with dangerous doses of ketamine.

RadarOnline reports that Suzanne Morrison and her husband, veteran journalist Keith Morrison, submitted emotional victim impact statements ahead of Dr. Salvador Plasencia’s sentencing — calling him “among the most culpable of all” for their son’s devastating death.

In their powerful letter, the couple didn’t hold back.
“How do you measure grief?” they wrote. “Here was a life so entwined with ours… and then those greedy jackals come out of the dark, and all the effort is for nought; it all crashes down.”

They said Perry’s story — one of fame, pain, and hope — was supposed to have a “third act,” but Plasencia’s betrayal robbed him of it.

“No one alive and in touch with the world at all could have been unaware of Matthew’s struggles,” the couple continued. “But this doctor conspired to break his most important vows, repeatedly, sneaked through the night to meet his victim in secret.”

Plasencia, who pled guilty to four counts of distributing ketamine, admitted to injecting the Friends star and selling him drugs “without a legitimate medical purpose.” He faces up to 10 years in federal prison when sentenced on December 3.

Perry’s father, actor John Bennett Perry, and his stepmother, Debby Perry, also tore into Plasencia in their own letter, saying he “fed on the vulnerability” of the beloved actor.

“Matthew’s recovery counted on you saying NO,” they wrote. “A doctor whose life is devoted to helping people? What ever were you thinking? Did you care? Did you think?”

They urged the judge to hand down a lengthy sentence, calling the doctor’s actions a “devastating betrayal.”

Matthew Perry, who rose to fame as Chandler Bing on Friends, died in October 2023 at the age of 54 after drowning in the hot tub of his Los Angeles home. Officials said he was under the “acute effects of ketamine” at the time of his death.

Plasencia — once known to patients as “Dr. P” — took a plea deal to avoid a potential 40-year prison term. But for Perry’s loved ones, no sentence will undo the heartbreak.

“He wanted, needed, deserved… a third act,” his mother and stepfather wrote. “And then, those jackals.”