Matthew Perry said taking ketamine was like “being hit in the head” with a “giant happy shovel” a year before he was killed by the drug. The tormented ‘Friends’ actor – who shot to fame playing Chandler Bing on the NBC sitcom from 1994 to 2004 – was killed on 28 October, 2023, aged 54 from the “acute effects” of the anaesthetic after getting into the hot-tub of his $6million mansion in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles while high on three doses of the substance, with five people now indicted over his passing. An extract about the drug from Matthew’s 2022 memoir ‘Friends, Lovers and the…