Grey's Anatomy star opens up in emotional interview

Entertainment Editor Peter Ford on the doctor charged with supplying Matthew Perry ketamine set to plead guilty, a Grey's Anatomy star opening up in an emotional interview, and a town hall wanting to recreate AC/DC's legendary music video.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back. A doctor charge with giving Matthew Perry ketamine
in the month leading up to his death has agreed
to plead guilty. Let's get some more his Our Entertainment
editor Peter Ford Pete. This is a major development.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Yes, So this is a doctor called doctor Salvator Placentia,
and he was supplying huge amounts of catamine to Matthew Perry.
Now that is the drug that was considered to be
the main reason why he died. Now he was being
given that drug by his regular doctor, but obviously in
the correct dosage. It was making him feel good, so

(00:32):
he wanted to have more. That doctor wouldn't give him more,
so he found doctor Placentia. Now we also found another
person who was giving in the ketamine as well. Now
that other person has pled not guilty, but doctor Salvador
Placentia is going to plead guilty to four counts of
supplying it and it does have a forty year maximum

(00:53):
jail sentence. So it's a very big development in the
whole story, the tragic story and the tragic death of
Matthew Perry.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Oh yeah, certainly.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
And Gray's anatomy favorite Eric Dane Pete has opened up
in a really emotional interview. He's discussing his als diagnosis
and some of the effects. Yes, and it looks like
it's having a much bigger impact on him already than
we'd thought, because he talked only a matter of a
month or two ago about the fact he was going
to continue working, life would stay as normal as it
can for as long as he can do it. But

(01:24):
already he's talking about the fact that it's having a
massive impact on his mobility and he's functioning now. Of course,
he had to get that diagnosis, and that itself was
a long drawn out process, as he describes here to
Diane Sawyer, makes you think.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
I didn't really think anything of it at the time.
I thought maybe I'd been texting too much or my
hand was fatigued. But a few weeks later I noticed
it got a little worse, so I went and saw
a hand specialist who sent me to another hand specialist.
I went s on neurology. The neuralogists sent me to

(02:01):
another neurologist and said this is way above my pay grid.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
And of course this is a disease. Here in Australia
we referred to it as mode and your own disease
and it's one of the really bad ones, and it's
not a good prognosis down the track. That's the reality.
So he needs a good support system now. His wife
Rebecca Gayheart is actually that main rock for him at
the moment. Even though they did separate in twenty and eighteen,

(02:26):
it looks like I don't know if they're officially back together,
but there's no doubt that she is really the one
who is helping him get through this tough time. Have
a look at this.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
Who's the person you call when it hits your heart?
I call Rebugger. Thanks actor her. Every day we have

(02:59):
managed who become better friends and better parents, and she
is my probably my biggest champion and my most stalwart supporter.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yes, so it's a very powerful interview, and of course
we send out our good thoughts to non famous people
who may be watching us today who deal with that
same condition themselves.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
All right, and Pete and other entertainment used some big
news around for ACDC fans.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
Yeah, well this is going to be a lot of fun.
So ac DC are definitely touring Australia at the end
of the year November into December. They haven't toured here
for ten years, so that in itself is going to
be fantastic. But there's a plan a foot to recreate
the famous I guess video clip. I don't know if
we even called them then called them video clips back

(03:51):
then fifty years ago when they got on the back
of the truck and they went down Swanson Street in Melbourne.
Now you look at that, you can see a lot
of those buildings have gone, some are still there, some
of the old trams are still rattling around, but mostly
it's the new ones now. So it's a great time
capsule of Melbourne way back. When the plan is to
recreate that fifty years almost exactly where they will get

(04:13):
back on the back of the truck, I think half
of Melbourne will turn out and line Swanson Street to
be a part of that. Now. Ac DC really did.
They certainly did form themselves in Sydney and got there
because breaks in Sydney, but a huge part of it
was in Melbourne as well, when Melbourne had a great
pub scene back in the seventies. And certainly there's even
an ac DC Lane in Melbourne. So we love them.

(04:36):
So let's hope that does happen when we're all line
Swanston Street and welcome them back to town.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
Hey yeah, it would be very different though wanted. Like
back then they would have jumped on the truck, had
a shot of tequila and gone yeah. Now to be high,
buz best I'll have to wear helmets and be Harna's
to the truck. That's true. Is very so boring now