{"id":101974,"date":"2022-10-19T18:51:10","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T18:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/matthew-perry-nearly-died-after-his-colon-burst-from-opioid-abuse-rolling-stone\/"},"modified":"2022-10-19T18:51:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T18:51:10","slug":"matthew-perry-nearly-died-after-his-colon-burst-from-opioid-abuse-rolling-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/matthew-perry-nearly-died-after-his-colon-burst-from-opioid-abuse-rolling-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Perry Nearly Died After His Colon Burst From Opioid Abuse \u2013 Rolling Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tBack in 2018,<\/span> Matthew Perry spent several months in a hospital, saying only at the time that he said a gastrointestinal perforation. Now, in a new interview with people <\/em>ahead of the publication of his new memoir, the friends <\/em>star explains that during that hospital stay, he nearly died after his colon burst from opioid abuse.<\/p>\n

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\tPerry spent two weeks in a coma and five months in the hospital and had to use a colostomy bag for nine months. When he was admitted, he said, \u201cthe doctors told my family that I had a two percent chance to live.\u201d He was hooked up to an ECMO (Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) machine, which essentially did his breathing for him, referring to the measure as \u201ca Hail Mary. No one survives that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tHe added, \u201cThere were five people put on an ECMO machine that night, and the other four died, and I survived. So the big question is why? Why was I the one? There has to be some kind of reason.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tIn his upcoming book, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing<\/em> (out Nov. 1), Perry discusses this harrowing episode as well as his long struggle with alcohol and drug addiction. As he explained, his initial issues with alcohol first arose when he was cast as Chandler Bing on friends<\/em> at 24 and quickly shot to fame. Though he said he could \u201chandle it, kind of,\u201d at first, he admitted that within 10 years, he was \u201creally entrenched in a lot of trouble.\u201d At one point, Perry said, he was taking 55 Vicodin a day and weighed just 128 pounds.<\/p>\n

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\tThere were some seasons, Perry said, when he was sober, noting he was clean for all of Season Nine. \u201cAnd guess which season I got nominated for best actor [at the Emmys]?\u201d he quipped. \u201cI was like, ‘That should tell me something.’\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tPerry said his addiction and flagging health were clear to his cast mates, whom he described as \u201cunderstanding\u201d and \u201cpatient.\u201d He continued, \u201cIt’s like penguins. Penguins, in nature, when one is sick, or when one is very injured, the other penguins surround it and prop it up. They walk around it until that penguin can walk on its own. That’s kind of what the cast did for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tPerry said he wanted to \u201cwait until I was pretty safely sober \u2014 and away from the active disease of alcoholism and addiction\u201d before he wrote about his experiences in his memoir (he declined to say exactly how long he’s been sober). He also credits his therapist with giving him a particularly potent piece of advice that’s helped him from using drugs again.<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cMy therapist said, ‘The next time you think about taking Oxycontin, just think about having a colostomy bag for the rest of your life,’\u201d Perry said. \u201cAnd a little window opened, and I crawled through it, and I no longer want Oxycontin anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n