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Matthew Perry Nearly Died While Battling Drug And Alcohol Addiction: ‘I Had A 2 Percent Chance To Live’
19.10.2022 - 16:29 / etcanada.com
Matthew Perry know’s he’s very lucky to be alive.
The “Friends” star, who is best known for his role as Chandler Bing in the beloved ’90s TV series, is speaking out about his three decades-long battle with alcohol and drug addiction in his upcoming memoir Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing.
Back in 2018, Perry was hospitalized after suffering a gastrointestinal perforation, the public heard at the time.
However, it’s since been revealed that he’d been left fighting for his life for weeks after his colon burst from opioid overuse, with him spending two weeks in a coma and five months in the hospital. He had to use a colostomy bag for nine months.
Perry tells People, “The doctors told my family that I had a 2 percent chance to live. I’m grateful to be alive.
“I was put on a thing called an ECMO machine, which does all the breathing for your heart and your lungs. And that’s called a Hail Mary. No one survives that.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Perry talks about nabbing the role of Chandler on “Friends” at age 24 when his alcohol addiction was just surfacing.
He tells the mag, “I could handle it, kind of. But by the time I was 34, I was really entrenched in a lot of trouble.”
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The publication points out that at one point, Perry was taking 55 Vicodin a day and weighed 128 lbs.
“I didn’t know how to stop,” the actor admits.
He says, “If the police came over to my house and said, ‘If you drink tonight, we’re going to take you to jail,’ I’d start packing. I couldn’t stop because the disease and the addiction is progressive. So it gets worse and worse as you grow older.”
Perry praises his “Friends” castmates for how they dealt with it all,
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