Matthew Perry was forced to drop out of Don't Look Up after his heart stopped for FIVE MINUTES

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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. 'It still felt like I was constantly doing a sit-up — so it was very uncomfortable — but it wasn't pain.'While Perry had already been prescribed hydrocodone by doctors at the facility, they ultimately decided to 'put some kind of weird medical device' in his back to alleviate the pain.

This required Perry to undergo surgery.  'The biggest movie I'd gotten ever': Perry was set to share three scenes with Meryl Streep, who played President Orlean  On the set: Perry pictured filming a scene for Don't Look Up in Boston, Massachusetts in 2020  Perry said he stayed up all night before the procedure taking hydrocodone, and the next day, during.