Matthew Perry Reveals Health Crisis Caused By Opioid Abuse Left Him With “2 Percent Chance To Live” – Report
deadline.comMatthew Perry is opening up about the health crisis that almost claimed his life several years ago, writing in his upcoming memoir that a burst colon from longterm opioid addiction prompted doctors to inform his family that the actor had a 2% chance of survival.
In a new interview with People magazine, the Friends star, now 53, reveals that when he was 49 he was hospitalized for five months and spent two weeks in a coma.
He used a colostomy bag for nine months, he says. “The doctors told my family that I had a 2 percent chance to live,” he tells People. “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.” Perry details his addictions to alcohol and opioids in his new autobiography Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing, to be released Nov.
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