IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Matthew Perry almost died after colon burst from opioid overuse

In his upcoming memoir, Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing, the 53-year-old reveals that he almost died at age 49. He spent two weeks in a coma and five months in hospital and had to use a colostomy bag, which collects the body's waste, for nine months. He recalled to People magazine, "The doctors told my family that I had a two per cent chance to live. I was put on a thing called an ECMO machine, which does all the breathing for your heart and your lungs. And that's called a Hail Mary. No one survives that...”