Matthew Perry His new memoir reveals he’s slated to star in a 2021 movie don’t look up Until a medical scare pulled him out of the movie.
of friend The 53-year-old star reveals in his new memoir: Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thinghe was to become a star against Meryl StreepPresident Orléans in three scenes of Adam McKay– Directed a film before his heart stopped while he was in a treatment center in Switzerland.
Perry writes that she was nominated for an Oscar don’t look up It would have been “the biggest movie I ever got”, according to an excerpt published by . rolling stone.
In his memoir, the actor adds that he was taking 1,800 milligrams of hydrocodone. We shot a group scene When Jonah Hill It didn’t make the final cut of the film.
Perry never filmed with Streep after being given propofol for anesthesia before surgery.
“I was given a shot at 11 am,” Perry wrote in his memoir. rolling stone“I woke up 11 hours later in another hospital. Apparently propofol had stopped my heart for five minutes. It wasn’t a heart attack.
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“I was told that some beefy Swiss guy didn’t really want the guy. friend I was dying on his table, beating my chest and pounding, doing CPR for the entire five minutes,” Perry wrote. friend, would he have stopped in 3 minutes?Did it friend save my life again ”
In his memoir, Perry said doctors “could have saved my life” but broke eight ribs during CPR. don’t look up Although “heartbreaking”, he was too distressed by the aftermath of the incident to continue filming.
recent perry Opened up to PEOPLE about his addiction journey and new memoir And he said he wants to wait to share his story “when I’m safe from falling back to all the dark sides again.”
“I had to wait until I was completely safe and sober from the ongoing illness of alcoholism and addiction to write it all down,” Perry said. I was convinced that it would help people.”
At the beginning of his memoir, Perry reveals the fact that he nearly died a few years ago at the age of 49.
At the time he publicly admitted he was suffering from gastrointestinal perforation, the actor was actually fighting for his life for weeks after his colon ruptured from an opioid overuse. I spent 2 weeks in the hospital, 5 months in the hospital, and had to use a colostomy bag for 9 months.
When he was first hospitalized, “doctors told my family that I had a 2% chance of survival,” he recalls. “I was put on something called his ECMO machine that does all the breathing of the heart and lungs. It’s called Hale he’s called Mary. No one can survive it.”
Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing will be released on November 1st.