Matthew Perry is sharing his sobriety journey.
In his upcoming memoir—Pals, Lovers and the Large Horrible Factor—the Pals alum, 53, will element his deeply private battle with habit and a near-death expertise just a few years in the past. In 2018, Perry underwent surgical procedure in Los Angeles for a gastrointestinal perforation. Whereas followers knew in regards to the process on the time, they did not know simply how shut he’d come to loss of life.
In accordance with his new Folks cowl story, Perry’s colon burst from opioid overuse and he ended up spending two weeks in a coma and 5 months in a hospital, additionally utilizing a colostomy bag for 9 months.
Trying again at when he was first taken to the hospital, the actor informed the journal, “The docs informed my household that I had a 2 p.c probability to reside. I used to be placed on a factor known as an ECMO machine, which does all of the respiratory in your coronary heart and your lungs. And that is known as a Hail Mary. Nobody survives that.”
