Matthew Perry spoke with People in October 2022 to promote his memoir, “Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing” (which releases on November 1, 2022), in which he discussed how he needed to have distance from his addiction to be able to write about it finally. Further, in the memoir, Perry opens about a terrifying incident from which he almost didn’t survive: in 2018, Perry was admitted into the hospital for gastrointestinal perforation, as his colon had burst from opioid overuse. He spent two weeks in a coma and five months in the hospital. As if that wasn’t scary enough, his odds of survival were even more terrifying.
Perry explained, “The doctors told my family that I had a 2% chance to live [when I was first admitted]. 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.”
While Perry has chosen not to disclose how long he has been sober as of the interview, he opened up about the ups and downs of his addiction over the years. At one of his lowest points during the “Friends” run, Perry was taking 55 Vicodin a day. However, during Season 9, he managed to stay sober throughout the whole season. Perry added, “And guess which season I got nominated for best actor? I was like, ‘That should tell me something.'”
Still, he struggled even after “Friends” ended and relapsed several times, with the actor telling People that he has been to rehab 15 times over the years.
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