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Matthew Perry was forced to drop out of Don't Look Up after his heart stopped for FIVE MINUTES
Matthew Perry dropped out of the all-star film Don't Look Up after his heart stopped for five minutes while undergoing surgery.Perry, 53, recounted having to give up the role in the film in his upcoming memoir Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, where he revealed eight of his ribs were broken by a doctor attempting to revive him on the operating table by performing CPR, according to Rolling Stone. The Friends alum was cast as a Republican journalist who shared three scenes with Meryl Streep in what he called 'the biggest movie I'd gotten ever.' Matthew Perry was forced to drop out of the all-star film Don't Look Up after his heart stopped for five minutes while undergoing surgery; pictured 2017Perry was still grappling with alcohol and opioid addiction at this time, and recalled being on 1,800 milligrams of hydrocodone while filming a group scene with Jonah Hill.The actor ended up seeking treatment at a luxury rehab in Switzerland during this time and attempted to procure more prescription drugs from doctors by lying of severe stomach pain. 'In fact, I was OK,' he recounted.
