Matthew Perry recalls horrors of dealing with colostomy bag after colon exploded in 2018: 'I woke up covered in my own s*** ... 50 to 60 times' - Yahoo Entertainment

Matthew Perry is discussing his addiction travel successful heartbreaking detail.

The Friends alum, 53, sat down with GQ for a caller interrogation and portion of his ABC News interview with Diane Sawyer has been released. Both incorporate stories uncomfortable to digest — and that's truly the constituent of him sharing his hellish battle.

So far, rather a fewer stories from the book, retired Tuesday, person leaked. He was fixed a 2% accidental to unrecorded aft his colon ruptured successful 2018 owed to opioid usage — and spent 5 months successful the hospital. His heart stopped beating for 5 minutes astatine a Switzerland rehab 2 years later. He made retired with Valerie Bertinelli portion her then-husband Eddie Van Halen was passed retired successful the aforesaid room. He dumped Julia Roberts owed to his ain debased self-esteem. He lost each his teeth. He took shots astatine Keanu Reeves, but has since apologized.

Some of that pales successful examination to caller revelations. For instance, helium told GQ that astatine the tallness of his pill addiction, during the Friends era, helium was taking 55 Vicodin a day. (He besides abused Xanax, OxyContin and alcohol). That necessitated regular doc buying to get galore pills from antithetic sources — to debar getting dope sick — and it besides progressive theft.

Over a play of astir 5 years, Perry — who was earning implicit $1 cardinal an occurrence by the clip Friends ended successful 2004 — would marque appointments with his realtor to spot high-end properties with the intent of stealing pills from medicine cabinets. (Perry told Sawyer he'd besides be unfastened houses and bargain medicine astatine those, too.)

"I would conscionable spell into the bath erstwhile they were determination else," helium explained. "Because if I said, 'Could I spell to the bathroom?' everybody knew that I was successful the bathroom."

Inside, helium would firearm done the owner's medicine furniture to spot what helium could find. He would cautiously cheque the labels and if the medicine was expired, helium would instrumentality a bunch, reasoning it would beryllium a harmless steal. If the medicine was new, he'd instrumentality conscionable mates due to the fact that it would beryllium much noticeable.

"You bash what you request to do," Perry said. "I counted connected the information that nary 1 would deliberation that Chandler went done my medicine furniture and stole from me."

He was ne'er caught, arsenic acold arsenic helium knows, and did it to provender his addiction. "I couldn’t halt oregon I thought I would spell crazy," helium said.

Another shocking revelation was Perry discussing having a colostomy container aft his colon exploded successful 2018 owed to OxyContin abuse. While successful a coma connected beingness enactment implicit a 2 week play of his five-month infirmary stay, helium had colostomy country to alteration the trajectory of the discarded from his bowels. A surgeon made an opening successful his abdominal partition for the feces to travel retired and it was collected successful a bag.

Perry antecedently said that having a colostomy container is what keeps him from utilizing drugs, arsenic the thought of having 1 again is truthful traumatic for him. And you tin spot wherefore arsenic helium elaborate specifics of the experience.

"I would aftermath up," helium told the magazine, and "the container would person breached again and I had s*** each implicit my face, each implicit my body, successful the furniture adjacent door. When it breaks, it breaks. You person to get nurses."

This was not a one-off thing. "When I accidental that I woke up covered successful my ain s***, I'm talking 50 to 60 times," helium said.

Perry had 14 surgeries related to that hospitalization. One was a failed effort astatine removing the colostomy bag. As a result, helium was fixed a impermanent replacement: an ileostomy bag. An ileostomy connects the past portion of the tiny intestine to the abdominal wall, and the container catches the waste.

"Ten times worse," helium said of the experience. "You person to woody with an ileostomy container 18, 19 times a day," versus a handful. There are "a batch of suicides with an ileostomy bag. People can't instrumentality it." Another country successfully fixed things. "I've lived without it present for a agelong clip and I'm precise grateful," helium said.

However, adjacent astir dying successful the infirmary didn't halt Perry's addiction. When went home, helium called his cause dealer.

"The archetypal clip I took my garment disconnected successful my bath aft returning from the infirmary aft my archetypal country I burst into tears," helium wrote successful the book. "I was truthful disturbed by it. I thought my beingness was over. After astir fractional an hr I got my s*** unneurotic capable to telephone my cause dealer..."

"It didn't matter" that helium had conscionable survived a brushwood with death. "I needed to instrumentality them," helium said.

And that led to yet different stint successful rehab — helium estimates he's lived fractional his beingness successful a attraction halfway oregon sober-living location — wherever helium astir died for the 2nd time. During surgery, helium was fixed propofol —which helium referred to arsenic "the cause that killed Michael Jackson"— and his bosom stopped for 5 minutes.

Perry is 18 months sober today. He's travel to recognize — and fearfulness — that if helium ever uses OxyContin again, he'll extremity up with a colostomy container for life. He's besides inactive "getting utilized to however my assemblage looks" with each its scars, but helium is grateful for them "because it helped maine enactment alive."

Perry started penning his publication successful his iPhone notes app 18 months agone portion successful the backmost of a car connected the mode to a Florida trauma therapy facility. He switched to an iPad for the 2nd half. When helium work the last publication for the archetypal time, connected the eve of signaling the audio book, "I work it and cried and cried and cried. I went, 'Oh, my God, this idiosyncratic has had the worst beingness imaginable!' And past I realized, 'This is maine I'm talking about...'"

While helium knows that Friends fans volition work it, helium said helium truly wrote it for addicts and hopes that it is yet housed successful the self-help conception of publication stores and library. He besides wants the wide nationalist to work it "to recognize however hard it was to discontinue and not beryllium judgmental for radical who are using. Because it is really, truly hard..." He said the publication "is not an ego travel oregon thing similar that. It’s the cold, hard information astir being an addict. Who made it. Who has to marque it each day. The enactment you person to enactment successful each time to prevention yourself from this monster that lives successful your encephalon is simply a baffling happening to unrecorded with."

Perry besides devoted overmuch ink to his emotion life, telling stories astir crushing connected Jennifer Aniston, dating and dumping Julia Roberts, a day from hellhole with Cameron Diaz and a kissing a then-married Valerie Bertinelli. The GQ communicative besides notes helium erstwhile had "a make-out league successful a closet with Gwyneth Paltrow."

He hopes they'll beryllium "flattered" by the recollections, arsenic helium pined for the women (minus Diaz). And helium talked astir them portion revealing his ain conflict with aforesaid image. While 1 of TV's astir celebrated men, helium ne'er felt helium was bully capable for immoderate of the women helium dated — and would permission the narration aboriginal to support his bosom from a imaginable breakup.

"I interruption up with them due to the fact that I’m deathly acrophobic that they volition find retired that I’m not enough, that I don’t matter, and that I’m excessively needy, and they’ll interruption up with maine and that volition annihilate maine and I’ll person to instrumentality drugs and that volition termination me," helium said of his past romances. "That's wherefore I interruption up with these fantastic women that person crossed my path. You know, I'm not being melodramatic erstwhile I accidental there's 10 women connected the look of the satellite that I would termination to beryllium joined to. Who I've gone retired with and breached up with. And present they've each moved on, each of them, and are joined and person kids. And you're not expected to look successful the rearview reflector due to the fact that past you'll clang your car. But I looked successful the rearview reflector and I was like, they're each gone. They're each happy, which is great, but I'm the 1 who’s sitting successful a screening country by myself. And there's nary lonelier infinitesimal than that."

Loneliness was a taxable successful the article, which is beauteous heartbreaking for idiosyncratic who brought america 1 of the astir beloved (and quirky) TV characters of each time, Chandler Bing. At different constituent successful the interview, helium said he's the happiest he's each been, past said he's a 7 connected a standard of 1 to 10.

"Which'll astir apt beryllium the highest I'll ever get," helium said. "Maybe if I had a kid it would determination maine up."

The caller footage from the Sawyer interrogation — which airs successful afloat Friday successful primetime — hones successful connected facts and figures related to Perry's addiction. He's spent $9 cardinal connected attraction to combat his addiction. He detoxed 65 times. He's been successful rehab 15 times. He's been successful therapy for 30 years. He's been to 6,000 AA meetings.

"Secrets termination you," helium said of his addiction, which has impacted each facet of his life, down to his speaking voice. "Secrets termination radical similar me."

If you oregon idiosyncratic you cognize is struggling with addiction, interaction Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Treatment Referral Helpline astatine 800-662-HELP (4357).