Matthew Perry’s assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa, is asking for some leniency at his upcoming sentencing … telling the decide he couldn’t “simply say no” when it got here to feeding Perry’s drug behavior … TMZ has discovered.
In new court docket docs, obtained by TMZ, Kenneth, who is about to be scheduled on Might 27, disagreed with prosecutors’ declare he might have instructed the “Friends” star “no” when he requested for ketamine.
As TMZ beforehand reported, Kenneth is going through years in jail for securing ketamine for Matthew and even injecting him with the drug on the day he died. Matthew died on October 28, 2023, from the acute results of the drug.
In his submitting, Kenneth stated he was an worker and “acted at all relevant times at [Matthew’s] direction rather than pursuant to his own discretion.”
Kenneth’s lawyer stated his consumer’s employment relationship with Matthew maybe “enabled him to more readily participate in the conspiracy to distribute drugs to the victim than a man on the street” … but added that “a number of proverbial men on the street did in fact participate in the same conspiracy.”
In his submitting, Kenneth stated prosecutors claimed he might have simply stated “no” to Matthew’s requests, however rejects this, saying such “rhetoric fully elides [Kenneth’s] explicit vulnerability to the connection dynamic which he fell into with the sufferer.”
Kenneth summed it up by saying “he could not ‘simply say no” … and admits “[t]hat inability had tragic consequences.”
As TMZ first reported, Matthew’s mother and sister wrote emotional letters to the court docket slamming Kenneth for breaking the entertainer’s belief and enabling his drug habits.
