A troubled soul@ Matthew Perry's Vicodin addiction:
While shooting 'Fools Rush In' with Salma Hayek, Perry had a jet ski accident and was given Vicodin for the pain.
He liked the Vicodin so much that he decided to get 40 more pills delivered to his house. However, after 18 months, he was taking 55 Vicodin pills a day.
Later, when he was 26, he went to rehab, which ended his Vicodin addiction. However, his addiction to drinking persisted until 2001.
Almost died after his colon burst from opioid abuse:
In his memoir, Perry recollected that he started taking methadone, on top of cocaine and Xanax, when he was 30.
By 2019, when Perry was 49, he nearly died after his colon burst from opioid overuse and he was in a coma for two weeks. He even spent five months in the hospital. In January 2022, Perry had his 14th surgery related to opiate abuse.
By then, he believed he had not slept more than four hours a night in his whole life and was full of regret about his past relationships.
