Matthew Perry Spent About $9 Million on Rehab for Addictions

A vital expense. Matthew Perry opened up about the price of battling drug and alcohol dependancy for greater than half of his life.

“I’ve in all probability spent $9 million or one thing attempting to get sober,” the Mates alum, 53, advised the New York Instances in an interview printed Sunday, October 23.

Perry opened up about how he started ingesting at age 14 and ultimately began utilizing benzodiazepines and opioids, together with Vicodin, Xanax and OxyContin. The Massachusetts native stated it’s not solely rehab stints that he’s needed to pay for but additionally the medical emergencies attributable to his drug use.

In 2018, his dependancy led to a hospitalization, in accordance with the Instances. Perry suffered from pneumonia and an exploded colon. He had a short stint on life assist, spent two weeks in a coma and 9 months with a colostomy bag. He required greater than a dozen abdomen surgical procedures.

He opens up about his struggles in his new memoir, titled Mates, Lovers and the Large Horrible Factor, the place he reveals that he has been sober since early 2021, shortly earlier than the Mates reunion aired that Might.

It was Perry’s costars who helped him understand he wanted assist. He starred as Chandler Bing on NBC’s Mates between 1994 and 2004, and he went to rehab twice through the 10-season run, first in 1997 and once more in 2001.

Lisa Kudrow, who performed Phoebe Buffay on the 10-season sitcom, wrote the ahead for his memoir, out November 4. “It’s a hideous illness, and he has a troublesome model of it. What’s not altering is his will to maintain going, preserve combating and preserve residing,” she advised the NYT. “I really like Matthew rather a lot. We’re a part of a household. I’m principally ending this with ‘I’ll be there for you’ [the ‘Friends’ theme song], nevertheless it’s true. I’ll all the time be there for him.”

She isn’t the one one. Perry additionally revealed that Jennifer Aniston, who performed Rachel Inexperienced, was one of many first to really confront him about his ingesting.

“She was the one which reached out essentially the most,” the 17 Once more star advised Diane Sawyer in a trailer for his or her Friday, October 28, sit-down interview. “I’m actually grateful to her for that.”

Perry added: “Think about how scary a second that was.”

Should you or anybody you recognize is dealing with substance abuse points, name the Substance Abuse and Psychological Well being Providers Administration’s Nationwide Helpline at 1-800-662-4357 at no cost and confidential info 24/7.