'The doctors told my family that I had a 2 percent chance to live,' said the Friends star, who has a new memoir where he talks about addiction (via toofab)
"I wanted to share when I was safe from going into the dark side of everything again," said Perry, 53."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."
In August 2018, it was reported the actor underwent surgery for gastrointestinal perforation, with Perry sharing that he spent three months in" However, the"17 Again" star has now shared that he had a near-death experience, revealing that he spent weeks fighting for his life after his colon burst from overusing opioids. Perry had to be hospitalized for five months, including spending two weeks in a coma. He then had to use a colostomy bag for nine months.
Perry -- who has been open about his past struggles with substance abuse -- said his addiction to alcohol began after he was cast as Chandler Bing in"Friends" when he was 24. "I could handle it, kind of. But by the time I was 34, I was really entrenched in a lot of trouble," he said."But there were years that I was sober during that time. Season 9 was the year that I was sober the whole way through.
"I didn't know how to stop," he admitted."If the police came over to my house and said, 'If you drink tonight, we're going to take you to jail,' I'd start packing. I couldn't stop because the disease and the addiction is progressive. So it gets worse and worse as you grow older."
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