Matthew Perry had 'emergency' surgery days before 'Friends' reunion - Page Six

Matthew Perry revealed helium had to acquisition “emergency dental surgery” days earlier filming the “Friends” reunion past April.

“They did each sorts of things,” the actor, 53, told Diane Sawyer during a sit-down that aired Friday connected ABC’s “Nightline,” adding that the process “made [his] rima consciousness similar fire.”

At the time, Perry’s slurred code and thousand-yard look near fans worried astir his well-being.

“It sounded similar my dependable was off,” helium acknowledged, but helium knew helium “couldn’t not amusement up.”

“So what I chose to bash was conscionable spell and bash the champion that I could,” helium told the longtime interviewer, who noted the “wear and teardrop connected his dependable and speech.”

Perry recently disclosed that he’s been cleanable of each substances for the past 18 months, meaning helium was recently sober by the clip the highly anticipated reunion aired successful May 2021.

The “Whole Nine Yards” prima spoke to Sawyer up of the Nov. 1 merchandise of his tell-all, “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir,” the contents of which helium has elaborate successful respective caller interviews.

One of the galore bombshells he’s discussed is the information that his beforehand teeth fell retired portion helium was biting into peanut food connected toast, which is wherefore helium had to person them each replaced.

Sawyer noted the “wear and teardrop connected his dependable and speech.”ABC News

During his interrogation with Sawyer that astatine immoderate points became tearful, Perry elaborated connected the clip his “Friends” co-star, Jennifer Aniston, came to his trailer to intervene, saying the formed could odor booze connected him.

He admitted determination were times his co-stars had to “prop [him] up” and that producers confronted him astir his addictions, too.

Perry told Sawyer, 76, that he’s attended determination astir 6,000 AA meetings, been successful therapy for 30 years, spent fractional his beingness successful attraction oregon successful sober surviving houses, and been to detox astir 65 times.

Earlier this month, Perry revealed helium astir died successful 2018 erstwhile his colon burst from opioid overuse.GC Images

Earlier this month, the histrion revealed helium came scarily “close to dying” successful 2018 erstwhile his colon burst from opioid overuse.

At the time, Perry publically claimed helium had suffered a “gastrointestinal perforation,” but successful reality, helium spent 5 months successful the infirmary — including 2 weeks successful a coma — and had to usage a colostomy container for 9 months.

“The doctors told my household that I had a 2 percent accidental to live,” he told People successful a communicative published Oct. 19. “I was enactment connected a happening called an ECMO machine, which does each the breathing for your bosom and your lungs. And that’s called a Hail Mary. No 1 survives that.”

Perry besides told the outlet helium was 1 of 5 radical hooked up to beingness enactment that nighttime and that “the different four” did not marque it.

The Emmy victor — who’s been to rehab a full of 15 times — explained that the scars from his dozens of tummy surgeries are “a batch of reminders to enactment sober.”

He added that his therapist besides helped him footwear his addictions erstwhile they told him, “‘The adjacent clip you deliberation astir taking Oxycontin, conscionable deliberation astir having a colostomy container for the remainder of your life.'”

The “Fools Rush In” prima said the remark prompted “a small window” to unfastened and that helium “crawled done it.”

He revealed successful his interrogation with Sawyer that Jennifer Aniston once came to his trailer to intervene, saying the formed could odor booze connected him.NBCUniversal via Getty Images

Talking to the New York Times soon aft his chat with People, Perry estimated that he’s “spent $9 cardinal oregon thing trying to get sober.”

During the aforesaid interview, the histrion reflected connected however his decades-long and “exhausting” addictions to drugs and intoxicant took implicit his beingness astatine the tallness of his lengthy vocation connected “Friends.”

At 1 point, Perry “would aftermath up and person to get 55 Vicodin that time and fig retired however to bash it.”

“When you’re a cause addict, it’s each math,” helium said. “I wasn’t doing it to consciousness precocious oregon to consciousness bully … I conscionable wanted to beryllium connected my couch, instrumentality 5 Vicodin and ticker a movie. That was eden for me. It nary longer is.”

He told the Times helium began drinking brew and vino erstwhile helium was 14, which spiraled into a operation of vodka by the quart, Vicodin, Xanax and OxyContin. He said helium drew the enactment astatine heroin.

Perry precocious announced that he’s been cleanable and sober for 18 months. mattyperry4/Instagram

In his memoir, Perry writes that instantly aft his “Friends” character, Chandler Bing, joined Monica Geller (Courteney Cox) during the Season 7 finale, which aired successful 2001, helium was “driven backmost to the attraction center … successful a pickup motortruck helmed by a sober technician.”

He admits that fans of the amusement can really archer which drugs helium was taking by tracking his “weight from play to season.”

The actor’s book, “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir,” is retired Nov. 1.Amazon

The histrion besides reveals that helium had to exit the 2021 movie, “Don’t Look Up,” aft his bosom stopped “for 5 minutes” successful the mediate of backmost country due to the fact that his anesthetic medications had combined with the hydrocodone inactive successful his strategy from the nighttime before.

He pens that helium is presently connected Suboxone — a cause that treats opioid withdrawal — and volition beryllium taking it for the remainder of his life.

Perry told GQ successful an interrogation published Thursday that helium doesn’t expect his “Friends” co-stars — with the objection of Lisa Kudrow, who wrote the foreword — to work his publication due to the fact that helium believes lone “addicts … and fans of ‘Friends’ are going to attraction astir this.”