The mourning for Matthew Perry is massive. The "Chandler" actor of the cult series 'Friends' has died at only 54 years old. Only a year ago, he had revealed his blatant fight against drug and alcohol addiction.
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00:00 Matthew Perry has passed away at the young age of 54.
00:04 His passing was unexpected, despite the fact that the Friends star had openly acknowledged
00:09 narrowly avoiding death several times in recent years.
00:14 Almost exactly a year ago, Matthew Perry published his autobiography Friends, Lovers, and the
00:19 Big Terrible Thing.
00:20 He began with the sentence, "I should be dead."
00:24 Then, the actor mainly known as Chandler continues to narrate extremely dangerous situations
00:29 in which he almost lost his life.
00:32 The Friends star recounts when in 2018 he faced a dire situation when his colon ruptured
00:37 from severe opioid abuse, leaving him with a mere 2% chance of survival.
00:43 He managed to survive that incident, and in 2020, during abdominal surgery, his heart
00:48 stopped for a full five minutes after he had taken some painkillers.
00:53 It was the culmination of his decades-long abuse of alcohol and medication.
00:58 What's especially tragic is that Matthew Perry didn't passively let his addiction consume
01:02 his life.
01:03 Instead, he actively fought against it with every means available.
01:07 "I have spent upward of $7 million trying to get sober.
01:13 I have been to 6,000 AA meetings.
01:15 I've been to rehab 15 times.
01:18 I've been in a mental institution, gone to therapy twice a week for 30 years," he wrote
01:23 in his book.
01:25 Whether his demise was due to the abuse of alcohol, painkillers, or any other substance
01:30 is still unclear.
01:32 Matthew Perry's cause of death is yet to be confirmed, and reports from TMZ indicate
01:37 no drugs were discovered.
01:40 Perry was reportedly found unresponsive in his hot tub on October 28.
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