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Matthew Perry is grateful to be alive. The 53-year-old comedic actor who brought Chandler Bing to life on Friends opened up about his past struggles with drugs and alcohol in his new memoir, Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing. Four years ago, when he was 49, Matthew was rushed to the hospital with gastrointestinal perforation, but unbeknownst to the public, he was fighting for his life after his colon burst from opioid overuse. “The doctors told my family that I had a 2 percent chance to live,” Perry writes in a selection of his memoir published by PEOPLE. “I was put on a thing called an ECMO machine, which does all the breathing for your heart and your lungs. And that’s called a Hail Mary. No one survives that.”
As it turns out, Matthew spent two weeks in a coma, and five more months hospitalized. He also had to use a colostomy bag for nine months, something that wasn’t publicly known. He also revealed how much the drugs had taken over his life, admitting that during his time on Friends, Matthew was taking 55 Vicodin pills a day and was down to 128 pounds.” I didn’t know how to stop,” he writes. “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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Matthew writes that by the time he was 34,
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