Matthew Perry

'Friends' actor Matthew Perry has revealed in his new memoir that he almost died four years ago from opioid overuse.

“I say in the book that if I did die, it would shock people, but it wouldn’t surprise anybody. “And a little window opened and I crawled through it and I no longer want Oxycontin anymore.” “I was put on a thing called an ECMO machine, which does all the breathing for your heart and your lungs. It doesn’t matter if you’re successful or not successful, the disease doesn’t care.” He added: “I’m an extremely grateful guy. And that’s called a Hail Mary.

Friends actor Matthew Perry has opened up about being in a two-week coma due to opioid misuse, in his new memoir 'Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible ...

He says speaking to the right therapist about his issues signalled a real turning point and made sobriety seem like a real possibility. But no, I'm a pretty healthy guy right now." "I was put on a thing called an ECMO machine, which does all the breathing for your heart and your lungs.

Friends star Matthew Perry has said he was given just a 'two per cent chance to live' after years of drug and alcohol abuse burst his colon and left him in ...

Speaking about his addictions, Perry said: "I didn't know how to stop. I was put on a thing called an Ecmo machine, which does all the breathing for your heart and your lungs. Perry opens the book by revealing he almost died a few years ago aged 49, after his colon burst from opioid abuse.

He added about his surgery scars being a reminder to never take Oxycontin again: “All I have to do is look down.” Matthew's colon burst from opioid overuse in ...

'Friends star' Matthew Perry has spoken about his struggles with substance abuse issues on multiple occasions. He recently opened up about his opioid ...

I couldn’t stop because the disease and the addiction is progressive. 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 was put on a thing called an ECMO machine, which does all the breathing for your heart and your lungs.

Matthew Perry shares the devastating reality of filming Friends at the height of his opioid and alcohol addiction ahead of his memoir's release in November.

Penguins, in nature, when one is sick or when one is very injured, the other penguins surround it and prop it up,” he shared. Why was I the one? “Everything starts with sobriety,” he insists. Perry says that his addiction began to surface when he was first cast on Friends aged 24, and spiralled throughout the ten seasons of the hit show. Indeed, the memoir opens with him recounting an incident in 2018 in which he was given a “2% chance to live” after his colon burst from opioid abuse. Season 9 was the year that I was sober the whole way through. “So the big question is why? But by the time I was 34, I was really entrenched in a lot of trouble,” he admits. “But there were years that I was sober during that time. “I say in the book that if I did die, it would shock people, but it wouldn’t surprise anybody. But I have lived to tell the tale, even though at times it looked like I wouldn’t. It doesn’t matter if you’re successful or not successful, the disease doesn’t care.”