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LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 A federal judge on Wednesday handed down a sentence of 15 years in prison to a woman who pleaded guilty to selling \u201cFriends\u201d star Matthew Perry<\/a> the ketamine that killed him in 2023.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cYou\u2019re going to have to show some epic resilience,\u201d Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett said to Jasveen Sangha<\/a>, echoing the defendant\u2019s words earlier in the hearing about her self-improvement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The 42-year-old became the third defendant sentenced of the five people who have pleaded guilty<\/a> in connection with the overdose of the 54-year-old actor. His role as Chandler Bing on NBC\u2019s \u201cFriends\u201d<\/a> in the 1990s and 2000s made him one of the biggest television stars of the era. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Sangha<\/a> stood at the podium Wednesday just before she was sentenced and told the judge she wears her shame \u201clike a jacket.\u201d She is the only defendant whose plea deal included an acknowledgment of causing Perry\u2019s death, and her prison term will almost certainly be far longer than all the others combined.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cThese were not mistakes. They were horrible decisions,\u201d Sangha said, which \u201cshattered people\u2019s lives and the lives of their family and friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Prosecutors cast her in court filings as a \u201cKetamine Queen\u201d who had an elaborate drug operation catering to high-end clients to give herself a jet-setting lifestyle despite a life of privilege.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Sangha\u2019s attorneys said in their sentencing filing that the time she has spent in jail since her August 2024 indictment should be sufficient. They pointed to her lack of a previous criminal record and exemplary behavior as an inmate, as well as the unlikelihood she would return to a life of drug dealing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Keith Morrison, Perry\u2019s stepfather and correspondent for NBC\u2019s \u201cDateline,\u201d told the judge that he and Perry\u2019s mother, Suzanne, feel a \u201cdaily, grinding sadness and sorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cThere was a spark to that man I have never seen anywhere else,\u201d Morrison said in his familiar and dramatic voice. \u201cHe should have had another act. Two more acts.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Perry was found dead in the hot tub at his Los Angeles home. The medical examiner ruled that ketamine,<\/a> typically used as a surgical anesthetic, was the primary cause of death.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Perry had been using the drug through his regular doctor as a legal off-label treatment for depression. But he sought more than the doctor would give him. That at first led him to Dr. Salvador Plasencia<\/a>, who admitted to illegally selling Perry ketamine and was sentenced to 2 1\/2 years in prison. And it later led Perry to Sangha, who sold him 25 vials of ketamine, including the fatal dose, for $6,000 in cash four days before his death, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n