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To: ponygirl

Through the years, Perry attended 6,000 AA meetings, gone to rehab 15 times, been in detox 65 times, had been on life support and has spent $7 to $9 million trying to get sober.

From his book...
“I was taking 55 Vicodin a day, I weighed 128 pounds.

Perry estimated last year that he had spent around $9 million trying to stay sober.
He’d been to rehab 15 times, he said; he’d had 14 surgeries on his stomach due to damage wrought from his addiction to opioids and alcohol.
The worst of them came when his colon burst when Perry was 49; the actor was placed in a coma for two weeks, he said, and had to use a colostomy bag for the next nine months.

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/10/matthew-perry-dies

Very sad.


1,836 posted on 10/29/2023 12:40:34 PM PDT by sweetiepiezer (WINNING is not getting old!!! ❤️USA❤️)
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To: sweetiepiezer

Perry had to use a colostomy bag? wwweeelll that makes us even then. I only saw a couple short bits of his work by accident and nearly had to use one myself. It’s amazing that a waste of space like that was somehow paid millions. 15 rehabs? That’s a stain on western civilization. And 6,000 double A meetings? He really had trouble meeting chicks!


1,838 posted on 10/29/2023 12:51:32 PM PDT by OldWarBaby
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To: sweetiepiezer
Yes, he struggled mightily with those addictions. I’ve been a Friends fan from the very first episode. Not so much a follower of the actors personally, but I thought the writing and acting on that show was brilliant. It perfectly fit the time period for the Gen X narcissistic 90s and ending with post-9/11 awakening.I still occasionally watch reruns if I need to laugh and sometimes it’s startling to see Perry during the Vicodin years, when he looks like a walking skeleton with gray teeth about to fall out of his head. He has said in interviews that when he was skinny, he was on pills, and when fat and bloated, he was drinking.

However, Perry either had a premonition of his demise a week prior to it happening (I was not a follower, so have no idea if this was common for him), or something more weird and nefarious happened. I have to admit, I was very nervous leading up to this lunar eclipse that happened yesterday. I thought Maine was the DS play, but maybe there was more.

1,843 posted on 10/29/2023 1:08:07 PM PDT by ponygirl (Stay gold.)
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To: sweetiepiezer

Perry should have checked with me. I could have told him how to stay sober for nothing———saved hisself 9 mill.


1,848 posted on 10/29/2023 2:35:18 PM PDT by OldWarBaby
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