Matthew Perry‘s parents have written victim impact letters.
Mom Suzanne and stepdad Keith Morrison, wrote a letter to the judge who will sentence Dr. Salvador Plasencia, the doctor who pled guilty to giving Matthew the drugs that ultimately caused his death, due to happen Wednesday (December 3).
His biological father John Perry also wrote an impact letter with his wife, stepmother Debby, addressed to the defendant.
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“How do you measure grief? Can you possibly provide any rational accounting? The bottom falling out? Yes, that. Here was a life so entwined with ours and held aloft sometimes with duct tape and bailing wire, with anything that might keep that big terrible thing from killing our first-born son, and our hearts with him,” Suzanne and Keith wrote in the letter, obtained by TMZ.
“And then those greedy jackals come out of the dark, and all the effort is for naught; it all crashes down. Many people, mothers mostly, have told me over the years how a thing like that breaks you, makes you feel broken. And I didn’t quite get what that meant until I watched what this thing did to Matthew’s mother. Still does, two years on. It’s a deep well, can’t see the bottom yet.”
“There is a confusion of emotions. Anger seethes away down deep, whether you want it to or not. And there’s the playing out of unalterable events, over and over and over. As if it could make any difference now. And the dull ache goes on and on,” the letter continues.
“Memories are like little knives. That funny, brilliant, demanding, insecure, annoying kid, bursting with talent, always the center of attention. Because you couldn’t take your eyes off him. Not when he was a famous TV star..not when he was just a brash kid. That Matso-ratso, his mom used to call him.”
“She – Suzanne – warned me, when we got serious about each other, that no man could ever come between her and that boy. She certainly didn’t expect that addiction would do that very thing, or that he’d be hastened to an early death by the very people he trusted. And now we are left with…victim impact statements.”
Matthew‘s father and stepmother wrote to the defendant: “You don’t deserve to hear our feelings. How you devastated our family contributing to the loss of Matthew our only son. A warm, loving man who was to be our rock as we aged. An uncle to our grandchildren and the mountain his siblings could turn to. Our next Patriarch. This branch of the Perry family, who came over on the Mayflower, has ended now. Matthew’s recovery counted on you saying NO.”
Read the full letters.
The doctor previously admitted to giving 20 vials of ketamine to Matthew and personal assistant Kenneth Iwamasa between September 30, 2023 and October 12, 2023. Matthew later died October 28 due to the effects of ketamine and drowning.
The doctor now faces up to 40 years in prison on four counts of distribution of ketamine.
