Matthew Perry Reveals He Spent $9 Million to Get Sober

Matthew Perry is looking backmost connected the aesculapian scare that changed the people of his idiosyncratic and nonrecreational life.
 
In his forthcoming memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, the actor—who has recently shared details of his addiction battle—revealed helium landed a relation successful Adam McKay's star-studded 2021 Netflix film, Don't Look Up. According to Rolling Stone, the Friends alum shared that amid filming, helium spent clip astatine a rehab halfway successful Switzerland.
 
While there, the histrion said that helium lied to his doctors astir the severity of his tummy symptom successful bid to get the cause hydrocodone. In bid to assistance with his pain, Perry explained that doctors decided helium would person to acquisition surgery, during which, helium was administered the anesthesia cause propofol. And since the histrion took hydrocodone the nighttime before, it was a operation that stopped his heart.

"I was fixed the changeable astatine 11:00 a.m.," Perry wrote, per the publication. "I woke up eleven hours aboriginal successful a antithetic hospital. Apparently, the propofol had stopped my heart. For 5 minutes. It wasn't a bosom attack—I didn't flatline—but thing had been beating."