Friends star Matthew Perry 'nearly died' when his colon burst due to regular drug use

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Hollywood actor has gone into detail about the severity of his drug and alcohol addictions that nearly cost him his life.The Friends star admitted that when he was 49 he "nearly died" when his colon burst due to opioid overuse.Matthew has gone into detail about his issues as he promotes his memoir, Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing.The Chandler Bing actor opens his memoir with the revelation that he almost died at the age of 49, when his colon burst, but told the public at the time that he suffered a "gastrointestinal perforation".Matthew spent two weeks in a coma and five months in hospital and had to use a colostomy bag for nine months to treat the major health crisis.He told US publication The People: "The doctors told my family that I had a 2 percent chance to live."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."Matt also told the publication that he was ready to go into his health issues now as he was "safe" from the "dark side" of his drug use.He admitted: "I wanted to share when I was safe from going into the dark side of everything again.""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.

And the main thing was, I was pretty certain that it would help people."Matt also used his memoir to open up about his severe alcoholism while filming Friends alongside Jennifer Aniston, Matt LeBlanc, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer and Courteney Cox.During one point of the show's ten seasons, Matthew was taking a total of 55 Vicodin tablets a day and had gone down to just 128 pounds.However, while trying to hide his addiction his.