Matthew Perry praised Jennifer Aniston for currently being a very good close friend amidst his sobriety struggles.
The actor, who a short while ago revealed he “nearly” died from major drug use, reported his “Friends” co-star confronted him about his frightening drug and liquor use at the peak of his career.
In a trailer for his job interview with Diane Sawyer — which airs on Oct. 28 — Aniston apparently informed Perry, “We know you are consuming.”
“Imagine how frightening a second that was,” the 53-calendar year-aged instructed Sawyer, adding that “she was the just one that attained out the most. I’m seriously grateful to her for that.”
In the similar interview, the “Fools Hurry In” star verified that he was having “55 Vicodin a day,” in addition to “Methadone, Xanax” and “a full quart of vodka.”
The rampant drug abuse virtually killed the actor at the age of 49 when his colon burst from opioid overuse.
At the time, Perry claimed he endured a “gastrointestinal perforation,” but in truth, he expended five months in the healthcare facility — which includes two months in a coma — and had to use a colostomy bag for 9 months after medical professionals told him he had “a 2 % opportunity to dwell.”
“I was place on a issue termed an ECMO equipment, which does all the respiration for your heart and your lungs. And that is known as a Hail Mary. No 1 survives that,” he informed People today in a separate interview.
Just after owning to dress in the colostomy bag — an exterior bag for feces to be stored — for almost a year, the actor made a decision to get sober and find a therapist.
“It was fairly hellish possessing just one since they split all the time,” he additional to the outlet.
“My therapist stated, ‘The subsequent time you imagine about using OxyContin, just feel about acquiring a colostomy bag for the rest of your life,’” Perry ongoing. “And a small window opened, and I crawled through it, and I no lengthier want OxyContin.”
Perry, who is now sober, candidly describes his very long-fought battle with habit in his new memoir, “Friends, Lovers and the Significant Terrible Factor,” which is out Nov. 1.