In 2018, Perry spent five months in a hospital for a gastrointestinal perforation. During the hospital stay, Perry nearly died after his colon burst from opioid abuse. He spent two weeks in a coma and used a colostomy bag for nine months. Upon being admitted to the hospital, doctors told Perry's family that Perry had a two percent chance of survival. He was connected to an ECMO (Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) machine, which breathed for him.[56]
Addiction struggles
Perry became addicted to Vicodin after a jet-ski accident in 1997, and completed a 28-day rehab program that year.[58] His weight fluctuated over the next few years, dropping to 145 pounds (66 kg) due to pancreatitis.[59] He entered rehab in February 2001 for an addiction to Vicodin, methadone, amphetamines, and alcohol.[60][61] While filming Serving Sara in Texas, he suffered severe stomach pains and checked into Marina del Rey's Daniel Freeman Hospital. Perry later estimated he had spent $9 million to get sober.[62] He revealed that due to his addiction issues, he did not remember three years of the time he was acting on Friends, between seasons three and six.[63]
In 2011, Perry lobbied Congress as a celebrity spokesperson for the National Association of Drug Court Professionals in support of funding for drug courts.[64] Perry received a Champion of Recovery award in May 2013 from the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy for opening Perry House, a sober living home in his former mansion in Malibu, California.[65][66] Perry relocated the rehab center in 2015.[67]
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