Matthew Perry describes his battle with addiction in his new memoir - CNN

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Matthew Perry is “safely sober” and ready to archer his story.

The “Friends” star, who played the lovable Chandler Bing connected the show, has written a memoir called “Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing,” which is acceptable for merchandise connected Nov. 1. In it, helium tells the communicative of his beingness and addictions, saying he’s yet successful a spot to speech astir it.

“I wanted to stock erstwhile I was harmless from going into the acheronian broadside of everything again,” Perry tells People of the book. “I had to hold until I was beauteous safely sober — and distant from the progressive illness of alcoholism and addiction — to constitute it each down. And the main happening was, I was beauteous definite that it would assistance people.”

Perry reveals successful the publication that owed to addiction, helium astir died astatine property 49 erstwhile his colon burst from opioid overuse. He was successful a coma for 2 weeks and spent 5 months successful the hospital.

He details his intoxicant addiction during “Friends”

“I could grip it, benignant of. But by the clip I was 34, I was truly entrenched successful a batch of trouble,” Perry told the publication, adding that helium was sober during Season 9.

He said of his castmates: “It’s similar penguins. Penguins, successful nature, erstwhile 1 is sick, oregon erstwhile 1 is precise injured, the different penguins situation it and prop it up. They locomotion astir it until that penguin tin locomotion connected its own. That’s benignant of what the formed did for me.”

Perry admits to going to rehab 15 times and that he’s “pretty steadfast now.”

“What I’m astir amazed with is my resilience,” helium said. “The mode that I tin bounce backmost from each of this torture and awfulness. Wanting to archer the story, adjacent though it’s a small scary to archer each your secrets successful a book, I didn’t permission thing out. Everything’s successful there.”