Matthew Perry is opening up astir his near-death experience.
 
In his forthcoming memoir, Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing, the 53-year-old is reflecting connected his addiction battle, which included him being successful a coma for 2 weeks aft his colon burst owed to opioid overuse.
 
The Friends alum explained helium decided to unfastened up astir his conflict erstwhile helium "was harmless from going into the acheronian broadside of everything again."
 
"The doctors told my household that I had a two-percent accidental to live," helium told People successful an nonfiction published connected Oct. 20. "That's the clip I truly came adjacent to my beingness ending. I was enactment connected an ECMO machine, which does each the breathing for your bosom and your lungs. Every doc says it's a Hail Mary. No 1 survives that. So, the large question is why? Why was I the 1 that survived? There has to beryllium immoderate benignant of reason."

Perry, who spent 5 months successful the infirmary during this time, ended up needing the colostomy container for nine. As the Fools Rush In histrion noted, his harrowing acquisition changed everything.

"My therapist said, 'The adjacent clip you deliberation astir taking OxyContin, conscionable deliberation astir having a colostomy container for the remainder of your life,'" helium shared. "And a small model opened, and I crawled done it, and I nary longer privation OxyContin."

Amid his sobriety journey, the histrion shared that helium is grateful to for his beingness today. "Everything starts with sobriety," helium said. "Because if you don't person sobriety, you're going to suffer everything that you enactment successful beforehand of it, truthful my sobriety is close up there."

He added, "I'm an highly grateful guy. I'm grateful to beryllium alive, that's for sure. And that gives maine the anticipation to bash anything."