Matthew Perry is opening up about his struggles with addiction and alcoholism in his new memoir. The 53-year-old Friends actor also shared about his near-death experience from opioid overuse. Click inside to read more… “Hi, my name is Matthew, although you may know me by another name.
My friends call me Matty. And I should be dead,” he writes in his new memoir, “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir.” “I wanted to share when I was safe from going into the dark side of everything again,” he told 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.
And the main thing was, I was pretty certain that it would help people.” Matthew suffered from a gastrointestinal perforation at age 49 when his colon burst from opioid overuse.
He spent two weeks in a coma and five months in the hospital, and had to use a colostomy bag for nine months. “The doctors told my family that I had a two percent chance to live,” Matthew said. “I was put on a thing called an ECMO machine, which does all the breathing for your heart and your lungs.
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