Perla Hudson, the ex-wife of Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash, is asking a judge presiding over the sentencing of the ‘Ketamine Queen’ Jasveen Sangha to go easy on the drug dealer convicted in Friends star Matthew Perry’s fatal 2023 overdose.
‘Jasveen is not a danger to society,’ Hudson said as part of a court filing reviewed by TMZ Thursday. ‘She is someone who, when given the chance, will continue to enrich and uplift those around her.’
Sangha has asked the judge for a lenient sentence, citing no criminal record prior to Perry’s passing, with character references from friends and relatives playing up her virtues.
Hudson, who was married to the rock staple from 2001 until 2015, penned a letter to a Los Angeles court detailing how Sangha is essentially a good person who got caught up in a bad situation.
Sangha is ‘filled with compassion and is very empathic and selfless,’ Hudson said in a letter urging the judge to sentence her to less than the 15 years in custody federal prosecutors have suggested she serve.
Sangha was described by Hudson as both a ‘little sister to her and like a fairy godmother to her sons.’
Perla Hudson, the ex-wife of Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash, is asking a judge presiding over the sentencing of the ‘Ketamine Queen’ Jasveen Sangha to go easy on the drug dealer convicted in Friends star Matthew Perry’s fatal 2023 overdose. Pictured 2014 in LA
Sangha – known to her customers as the ‘Ketamine Queen’ – is awaiting sentencing after pleaded guilty to five federal charges in connection with Perry’s death last year
Hudson called Sangha as a ‘devout Sikh woman’ who prays every day, adding that her faith has resulted in ‘a sense of humility and compassion’ Sangha takes into every personal relationship she has.
Hudson said that Sangha ‘wasn’t there to take, only to give’ during tough times she had previously experienced, such as her divorce from Slash.
Sangha said in the legal docs that she’s turned her life around since her 2024 arrest, as she ‘significantly’ struggled ‘with substance use but has maintained two years of sobriety as of March 19, 2026.’
Prosecutors had opposing views in a sentencing memorandum reviewed by ABC News regarding Sangha, who pleaded guilty to distribution of ketamine, distribution of ketamine resulting in death or serious bodily injury and maintaining a drug-involved premises.
The prosecution said Sangha exhibited ‘cold callousness and disregard for life’ during her time selling ‘dangerous drugs’ to people.
They noted that Sangha also admitted she sold ketamine to Cody McLaury, another person who fatally overdosed in August of 2019, about four years before Perry’s passing.
‘She didn’t care and kept selling,’ prosecutors said. ‘Defendant’s actions show a cold callousness and disregard for life.’
Sangha ‘chose profits over people, and her actions have caused immense pain to the victims’ families and loved ones, prosecutors said
Prosecutors said Sangha ‘chose profits over people, and her actions have caused immense pain to the victims’ families and loved ones … that defendant had the opportunity to stop after realizing the impact of her dealing – but simply chose not to.’
Perry was found dead face down in his jacuzzi back on October 29, 2023, leaving Hollywood shaken to its core after he bravely shared details of his addiction struggles with the public to dissuade others from following a similar path.
Months later, a medical examiner determined that the actor – who had battled substance abuse issues throughout his life – had died of ‘acute effects of ketamine.’
A sentencing hearing for Sangha was ‘expected to occur in the coming months,’ United States Attorney Bilal A. Essayli of California’s Central District said in a statement obtained by Daily Mail last fall.
‘Upon entering her guilty plea, Sangha will face at her sentencing hearing,’ Essayli said, ‘a statutory maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison on the drug-involved premises count.’
Sangha faces ‘up to 10 years in federal prison for each ketamine distribution count … and up to 15 years in federal prison for the count of distribution of ketamine resulting in death or serious bodily injury,’ the prosecutor said.
Prosecutors last year said that Sangha admitted in her plea deal to possessing drugs she intended to sell at her North Hollywood residence.
The Friends actor was found dead face down in his jacuzzi back on October 29, 2023, leaving Hollywood shaken to its core. Pictured April 22, 2023, six months before the day he died
Five people were arrested in connection with the death of the actor following a federal probe of how Perry obtained the drugs that killed him. Pictured in 2012
‘In March 2023, law enforcement searched the residence,’ according to Essayli. ‘and found 1.7 kilograms of pressed pills containing methamphetamine, 79 vials of liquid ketamine, MDMA (Ecstasy) tablets [and] counterfeit Xanax pills.’
Also recovered were ‘the baggies containing powdered ketamine and cocaine, and other drug trafficking items such as a gold money counting machine, a scale, a wireless signal and hidden camera detector, drug packaging materials, and $5,723 in cash,’ the prosecutor said.
In June of 2025, another medical professional charged in the case, Dr. Salvador Plasencia, agreed to plead guilty to four counts of ketamine distribution in the case.
Plasencia had also been charged by prosecutors with altering and falsifying documents or records in connection with the federal probe.
Three others pleaded guilty in connection with the tragic death of the TV star. They include: Dr. Mark Chavez; Perry’s assistant Kenneth Iwamasa and Erik Fleming, who was an acquaintance of the Friends star.
