I had to use a colostomy bag for NINE months after my drug habit burst my colon, says Matthew Perry
thesun.co.ukFRIENDS star Matthew Perry says he was forced to use a colostomy bag for nine months after his drug habit burst his colon. The actor, 53, says a crippling addiction to opiate OxyContin left him on a life support machine with damaged organs.
Matthew laid bare the full extent of his relationship with drugs in an extraordinarily honest new memoir. Before yesterday’s launch of the book Friends, Lovers, And The Big Terrible Thing, the A-list actor told how he had nearly died and had had a one in 50 chance of surviving after his colon burst.
It is the first time he has spoken about how he spent two weeks in a coma and five months fighting for his life in hospital after suffering a gastrointestinal perforation.
He had to use a colostomy bag for nine months after the terrifying incident in 2018. Matthew told People magazine: “The doctors told my family that I had a two per cent chance to live. “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.
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