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Keith Morrison, the stepfather of the late Matthew Perry, is speaking out after the woman who illegally sold the \u201cFriends\u201d star the ketamine that killed him was sentenced.<\/p>\n
On April 8,\u00a0Jasveen Sangha<\/a>, known as the \u201cKetamine Queen\u201d to her drug customers, was sentenced to 15 years behind bars and three years\u2019 supervised release for her connection to Perry\u2019s 2023 overdose death,\u00a0NBC News reported<\/a>. Sangha had previously pleaded guilty to illegally selling the hallucinogenic anesthetic in September 2025.<\/p>\n Shortly after her sentencing, Morrison shared a brief statement outside of the courthouse. The \u201cDateline\u201d correspondent said, \u201cWe miss Matthew dreadfully, of course, and I feel bad for the family of the perpetrator here as well. Nobody won today.\u201d<\/p>\n He also said the \u201cvery fair\u201d judge chose a \u201chighly reasoned sentence.\u201d<\/p>\n When asked if he thought Sangha took to heart the words he shared in court, Morrison replied, \u201cYes, I do. I looked down and she was visibly emotional about it. I mean, look, you\u2019d have to have a heart of stone to wake up every morning and make a business out of feeding off the addictions of vulnerable people who are desperate for drugs. Then when you\u2019re forced to confront what you have done, if you don\u2019t feel some sense of shame or sorrow, then you\u2019re not even human.\u201d<\/p>\n He continued, \u201cAnd she is clearly human. She is now facing her sentence, and I think she\u2019ll do fine in prison.\u201d<\/p>\n Morrison has been married to the late actor\u2019s mom, Suzanne Perry, since 1981.<\/p>\n Perry was found face down and unresponsive in the pool at his Pacific Palisades home on Oct. 28, 2023. The 54-year-old actor was\u00a0pronounced dead at the scene<\/a>.<\/p>\n Morrison, his wife and three of Perry\u2019s sisters \u2014 Caitlin, Emily and Madeline Morrison \u2014 previously spoke about grieving the loss of their son and brother on the first anniversary of his death in an\u00a0interview with TODAY<\/a>. The October 2024 sit-down came after charges were first announced for the\u00a0five people connected to Perry\u2019s death<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat I\u2019m hoping, and I think the agencies that got involved in this are hoping, that people who have put themselves in the business of supplying people with the drugs that\u2019ll kill them \u2014 they are now on notice. It doesn\u2019t matter what your professional credentials are. You\u2019re goin\u2019 down, baby,\u201d Morrison said at the time.<\/p>\n Speaking about his stepson\u2019s impact, Morrison added, \u201cWhat he taught the world is that no amount of money will cure an addict. It needs something else. That\u2019s what we\u2019re trying to do (with the foundation),\u201d referring to the Matthew Perry Foundation of Canada that the family founded that same month.<\/p>\n Prior to her sentencing, Sangha pleaded guilty in September 2025 to\u00a0five federal charges involving Perry\u2019s death<\/a>. She was arrested in August 2024 and has been in federal custody since then.<\/p>\n In the courtroom, Sangha reflected on her \u201cpoor choices\u201d and \u201chorrible decisions that ultimately proved tragic,\u201d according to NBC News.<\/p>\n She said, \u201cI pray for forgiveness every day. Thank you for giving me the harshest reality check of my life. Thank you for taking me out of the equation.\u201d<\/p>\n After the sentencing, her attorney, Mark Geragos, said about the decision, \u201cI\u2019m bitterly disappointed. If you weren\u2019t in the courtroom, the argument is there\u2019s no way that Jasveen is five times more culpable than the person who injected Matthew Perry with the drug or the doctor who got the drug.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cTo me, it\u2019s absurd in the literal meaning of the word, and if this is what the criminal justice system, or the theory of crime and punishment is, that the dealer should get five times as much as the person who injects the drug, who is there to take care of somebody, then maybe I\u2019ve been practicing too long,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n According to the U.S. attorneys involved in the case, Sangha said in her plea agreement that she had worked with a man named Erik Fleming to supply Perry with 51 vials of ketamine. The drug was then given to Perry by his live-in personal assistant named Kenneth Iwamasa, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n Fleming and Iwamasa are two of the five people who were charged in the case. Fleming pleaded guilty in August 2024 to one count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine and one count of distribution of ketamine resulting in death, NBC News reported, and Iwamasa also pleaded guilty the same month to one count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine causing death.<\/p>\n They will receive their sentences later this month.<\/p>\n Additionally, Dr. Mark Chavez\u00a0pleaded guilty<\/a>\u00a0to one count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine in August 2024. Dr. Salvador Plasencia pleaded not guilty to the same crime. In\u00a0December 2025<\/a>, Chavez was sentenced to three years of supervised release, including eight months of home confinement. Plasencia was given two and a half years in prison.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe loved ones of actor Matthew Perry shared powerful impact statements as one of the doctors charged in his death faced sentencing. Carolyn Johnson reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 3035.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n