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Matthew Perry's family trusted his assistant to help keep him sober. He instead helped him overdose
Matthew Perry paid Kenneth Iwamasa $150,000 a year to be his live-in personal assistant. His role for the "Friends" star would expand to drug messenger, addiction enabler and de facto doctor, according to court filings.
What happened
According to PBS News’s source item, Matthew Perry’s family trusted his assistant to help keep him sober. He instead helped him overdose, Matthew Perry paid Kenneth Iwamasa $150,000 a year to be his live-in personal assistant. His role for the “Friends” star would expand to drug messenger, addiction enabler and de facto doctor, according to court filings.
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- Matthew Perry's family trusted his assistant to help keep him sober. He instead helped him overdosePBS News - 2026-05-22T16:06:34+00:00
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