Matthew Perry’s Family on Ketamine Queen Trial: ‘You Are Going Down’

One year after Matthew Perry‘s death, the family of the late “Friends” star sat down with the “Today” show’s Savannah Guthrie to reflect on his legacy.

Perry’s mother, Suzanne Morrison, stepfather Keith Morrison and three younger sisters opened up about the aftermath of his death from the acute effects of ketamine and the justice they are hoping to get now that a trial date has been set for two of the people accused of supplying him with drugs.

“I’m thrilled,” Perry’s mother said of the trial, which has been set for March 2025.

“What I’m 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 will kill them are now on notice,” Keith Morrison added. “It doesn’t matter what your professional credentials are, you are going down, baby.”

Earlier this year, the DEA and LAPD opened an investigation to find who supplied Perry the drugs that led to his death. That resulted in the arrest of five people in August, including Perry’s assistant, doctors and Jasveen Sangha, also known as the “Ketamine Queen.” Sangha and one of the doctors will go on trial next year and could face several decades in prison.

Perry died on Oct. 28, 2023, from the acute effects of ketamine after being found unresponsive in the hot tub of his Los Angeles home. His death was ruled an accident, and other contributing factors included drowning, coronary artery disease and the effects of buprenorphine, which is used to treat opioid use disorder.

On Friday, Guthrie released a preview of the interview, in which Morrison said she was “worried” after one of her final conversations with Perry.

“He went through a period, interestingly enough just before he died, when he was showing me one of his new houses,” Morrison told Guthrie. “He came up to me and he said, ‘I love you so much and I’m so happy to be with you now.’ It was almost as though it was a premonition or something. I didn’t think about it at the time but I thought, ‘How long has it been since we’ve had a conversation like that. It’s been years.’”

She continued by saying, “I think there was something. There was an inevitability to what was going to happen next to him, and he felt it very strongly. But he said, ‘I’m not frightened anymore.’ And it worried me.”