{"id":1709552,"date":"2022-10-24T20:47:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T00:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1709552"},"modified":"2022-10-24T20:48:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T00:48:15","slug":"there-is-a-hell-matthew-perry-says-hes-been-there-admits-he-spent-nearly-10-million-to-get-sober","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/there-is-a-hell-matthew-perry-says-hes-been-there-admits-he-spent-nearly-10-million-to-get-sober\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018There Is A Hell\u2019: Matthew Perry Says He\u2019s \u2018Been There,\u2019 Admits He Spent Nearly $10 Million To Get Sober"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthere-is-a-hell-matthew-perry-says-hes-been-there-admits-he-spent-nearly-10-million-to-get-sober%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1709552&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>\u201cFriends\u201d actor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/matthew-perry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matthew Perry<\/a> said he was certain that hell exists, claiming to have \u201cbeen there\u201d during his long struggle with substance abuse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a hell,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2022\/10\/24\/matthew-perry-returned-to-rehab-after-marrying-monica-on-friends\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the actor said<\/a> in his new book \u2014 \u201cFriends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir\u201d \u2014 which is due out on November 1. \u201cDon\u2019t let anyone tell you different. I\u2019ve been there; it exists; end of discussion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/we-know-youre-drinking-matthew-perry-spills-which-friends-costar-called-him-out-for-substance-abuse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Perry<\/a>, 53, said that he got to the point where he was taking 55 Vicodin a day \u2014 in addition to drinking alcohol and taking Xanax \u2014 and explained that after certain point, being an addict became all about \u201cmath.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He would get up in the morning, he said, and the only thing on his mind was how he might get those 55 pills. It was never about partying \u2014 the \u201cFriends\u201d star said he had never been one to go out and party. His goal, rather, was simply to take five Vicodin so that he could sit on the couch to watch a movie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re a drug addict, it\u2019s all math. I wasn\u2019t doing it to feel high or to feel good. I certainly wasn\u2019t a partyer; I just wanted to sit on my couch, take five Vicodin and watch a movie,\u201d he said. \u201cThat was heaven for me. It no longer is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cFools Rush In\u201d star admitted that over the years, he <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2022\/10\/24\/matthew-perry-reveals-he-spent-about-9m-trying-to-get-sober\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sunk millions<\/a> into trying to overcome addiction. \u201cI\u2019ve probably spent $9 million or something trying to get sober,\u201d he said \u2014 and while he made it clear that he understood the advantage and the resources that fame provided, he also noted that fame meant every failure made another headline.<\/p>\n<p>Perry sat down for a full interview with ABC\u2019s Diane Sawyer ahead of his book release, and he told her that a near-death experience \u2014 brought on by over three decades of substance abuse \u2014 had turned him around.<\/p>\n<p>After suffering a perforation in his colon, Perry was put on an ECMO machine that functioned for his heart and lungs \u2014 a move that he referred to as \u201ca Hail Mary\u201d \u2014 and he had to wear a colostomy bag for nearly a year after that. \u201cThe doctors told my family that I had a 2 percent chance to live,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>The thought of going back to the colostomy bag was what ultimately scared Perry into staying sober \u2014 he explained that his therapist had told him to picture the colostomy bag every time he wanted a pill. \u201cA\u00a0little window opened, and I crawled through it, and I no longer want OxyContin,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFriends\u201d actor Matthew Perry said he was certain that hell exists, claiming to have \u201cbeen there\u201d during his long struggle with substance abuse. \u201cThere is a hell,\u201d the actor said in his new book \u2014 \u201cFriends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir\u201d \u2014 which is due out on November 1. \u201cDon\u2019t let anyone &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1709555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1709552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1709552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1709555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1709552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1709552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1709552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}