So my hope is that people will relate to it, and know that this disease attacks everybody. And that's a very scary thing to be living with. I say in the book that if I did die, it would shock people, but it wouldn't surprise anybody. The Friends star added that he thinks readers of his memoir will, “be surprised at how bad it got at certain times and how close to dying I came.
And that gives me the possibility to do anything.” I'm grateful to be alive, that's for sure.
You know everything you knew before, as long as you were able to fight your way back without dying, you learn a lot.” And these days, he's just “an extremely grateful guy. “Your sober date changes, but that's all that changes.
“It's important, but if you lose your sobriety, it doesn't mean you lose all that time and education,” he said. But no, I'm a pretty healthy guy right now.” He added that he doesn't want to disclose exactly how long he's been sober, but he still counts every day. Perry also revealed that he has been to rehab 15 times over the years and has had 14 surgeries on his stomach so far, but is “pretty healthy now.” He joked, “I've got to not go to the gym much more, because I don't want to only be able to play superheroes. I was put on a thing called an ECMO machine, which does all the breathing for your heart and your lungs. He shared that when he was first admitted to the hospital, “the doctors told my family that I had a 2 percent chance to live. The actor spent two weeks in a coma, five months in the hospital, and had to use a colostomy bag for the next nine months. While he publicly acknowledged that he was suffering from a gastrointestinal perforation, he was actually fighting for his life at the time after his colon burst from opioid overuse. In the book, Perry reveals that a few years ago, at the age of 49, he almost died. And the main thing was, I was pretty certain that it would help people.” I had to wait until I was pretty safely sober-and away from the active disease of alcoholism and addiction-to write it all down. The Friends star revealed in an interview with People published this week, “I wanted to share when I was safe from going into the dark side of everything again. The actor is sharing both the highs of his career and the darkest lows of his life in his new memoir, Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing, due out next month. Matthew Perry is speaking candidly for the first time about his decades-long struggle with addiction.
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