Matthew Perry Reveals Opioid Abuse Put Him in a 2-Week Coma: ‘I’m Grateful to Be Alive’
thewrap.comPeople in the lead-up to his new memoir, “Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing,” the “Friends” star said the incident put him in a two-week coma and family was told he had a 2% chance to live.
He also had to use a colostomy bag for nine months.“The doctors told my family that I had a 2 percent chance to live,” Perry said. “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 said that when he was first cast on “Friends” at age 24, his alcohol addiction was starting to reveal itself.
Though when he stayed sober, he said his career thrived.“I could handle it, kind of,” Perry said. “But by the time I was 34, I was really entrenched in a lot of trouble.
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