Friends’ Star Matthew Perry Was Given A 2% Chance To Live By Doctors?!
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🗓️ 21 October 2022
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Get it the virtue. |
| 0:01.0 | What's trending now? |
| 0:02.0 | No. |
| 0:03.0 | Kristen knows. |
| 0:04.0 | It's the virtue. |
| 0:05.0 | It's entertainment bars. |
| 0:06.0 | Matthew Perry gets candid about his drug use and how it almost killed him in his upcoming |
| 0:11.3 | book Friends, Levers and the Big Terrible Thing. |
| 0:15.0 | So he goes into detail. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm going to go ahead and give a trigger warning because if about drug abuse, he says he almost |
| 0:20.6 | died when his colon burst due to opioid abuse four years ago. |
| 0:26.6 | He spent two weeks in a coma, five months in the hospital, and nine months with a colostomy |
| 0:31.5 | bag. |
| 0:32.5 | He says, Doctors told my family I had a 2% chance to live. |
| 0:36.7 | I was put on a thing called an ECMO machine, which does all the breathing for you, all the |
| 0:42.1 | breathing for your heart and your lungs. |
| 0:44.0 | And that's called a Hail Mary. |
| 0:45.8 | No one survives that. |
| 0:47.0 | Now, one point during his friends days, he was taking 55 vikin in a day. |
| 0:52.8 | What? |
| 0:53.8 | 55 viking and was down to 128 pounds. |
| 0:57.2 | And he credits the other cast members for sticking with him like penguins. |
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