Matthew Perry revealed he spent two weeks in a coma and five months in the hospital in 2018. When he was admitted, he said, “the doctors told my family that I had a two percent chance to live.”
There were some seasons, Perry said, when he was sober, noting he was clean for all of Season Nine. “And guess which season I got nominated for best actor [at the Emmys]?” he quipped. “I was like, ‘That should tell me something.’”
Perry said his addiction and flagging health were clear to his cast mates, whom he described as “understanding” and “patient.” He continued, “It’s like penguins. Penguins, in nature, when one is sick, or when one is very injured, the other penguins surround it and prop it up. They walk around it until that penguin can walk on its own. That’s kind of what the cast did for me.”
Perry said he wanted to “wait until I was pretty safely sober — and away from the active disease of alcoholism and addiction” before he wrote about his experiences in his memoir . He also credits his therapist with giving him a particularly potent piece of advice that’s helped him from using drugs again.
“My therapist said, ‘The next time you think about taking Oxycontin, just think about having a colostomy bag for the rest of your life,'” Perry said. “And a little window opened, and I crawled through it, and I no longer want Oxycontin anymore.”
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