Matthew Perry and the time he almost died from drug abuse: “Now I’m a pretty healthy guy”

Matthew Perry himself survived. The Friends actor was close to death, as he himself admitted in an episode of his biography Friends, Lovers and the Big Bad Thing, which will be released in the US on November 1, as well as during an interview with Peoplewhere he announced the release of his book.

Four years ago, the American press reported that Perry was rushed to the hospital for surgery for a perforated gastrointestinal tract. However, as the 53-year-old translator recently revealed, there was something more serious behind this diagnosis, as the truth is that his colon had ruptured due to drug abuse.

“I wanted to share this when I was sure that I would not return to the dark side,” the actor explained the reasons that led him to make this revelation about the dark stage of his life. Because it was because of his overuse of opioids that he spent two weeks in a coma, five months in the hospital, and nine months dependent on a colostomy.

In fact, when he was admitted to the hospital, doctors informed his family that he only had a 2% chance of survival. “I was given an ECMO machine that makes my heart and lungs work. This is what is called “Ave Maria”. No one survives from this,” he said. Matthew Perry.

Penguins from Friends

This relapse was not the first time Matthew Perry He ran into an addiction problem. During his life, he ended up in a rehabilitation center 15 times. And when he played the sarcastic Chandler Bing in “friends’, he said, his problems with alcoholism made themselves felt.

“I could more or less handle it. But at 34, I already had a lot of problems, ”he recalled. It was during that decade that his weight fluctuated with each season of the series due to his addiction to alcohol and drugs. A script where he had the understanding and patience of his fellow cast members.

“It’s like penguins. When a penguin is sick or badly injured, other penguins surround him and help him straighten up. They walk around him until the penguin can walk on his own. That’s what the actors did.” Friends for me,” he said. Matthew Perry.

“But there were years when I was sober at the time. Season 9 was the year I was sober all the time,” he added. It was for his performance in this part that he received his first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy. “It must have told me something,” he said.

Matthew Perry has been rehabilitated

But if the best moment Matthew Perry It was in that season’friends’, released in the US in 2001, had his life’s darkest moment as the series drew to a close. The actor weighed 58 kg, taking 55 Vicodin tablets (a highly addictive painkiller) daily.

“I didn’t know how to stop. I couldn’t stop because the disease and addiction were progressing. So it got worse with age,” he admitted. However, despite constant relapses, the popular Chandler Bing was convinced that his dark side had already come to an end.

“Now I’m a healthy guy,” he said, before jokingly adding, “I should stop going to the gym because I don’t want to play superheroes. But no, I’m a pretty healthy guy now.” .”

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