Matthew Perry was forced to drop out of Don’t Look Up after his heart stopped for FIVE MINUTES
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Matthew Perry Reveals He Quit All-Star Movie Don’t Look Up After His Heart Stopped FIVE MINUTES During Surgery
- Matthew Perry Revealed He Was Forced To Stop Don’t Look Up After His Heart Stopped For Five Minutes During Surgery
- Perry would play a Republican journalist who shares three scenes with Meryl Streep. He even filmed a scene with Jonah Hill
- He eventually sought treatment at a luxury rehab facility in Switzerland, where he tried to get more prescription drugs from doctors by lying about stomach pain.
- However, doctors decided that he needed to have a medical device put on his back, which required surgery
- Perry, who had stayed up all night taking hydrocodone the night before the procedure, said his heart stopped after being given the anesthetic propofol during surgery.
- He said eight of his ribs were broken after a doctor tried to resuscitate him by performing CPR for five minutes
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Matthew Perry quit the all-star movie Don’t Look Up after his heart stopped for five minutes during surgery.
Perry, 53, told that he had to give up the role in the film in his upcoming memoir Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, where he revealed that eight of his ribs were broken by a doctor who tried to resuscitate him on the operating table by to perform. resuscitation, according to rolling stone.
The Friends alum was cast as a Republican reporter who shared three scenes with Meryl Streep in what he called “the greatest movie I’ve ever gotten.”
Matthew Perry was forced to quit the all-star movie Don’t Look Up after his heart stopped for five minutes during surgery; pictured 2017
Perry was still struggling with alcohol and opioid addiction at this point and remembered being on the pill 1800 milligrams of hydrocodone while filming a group scene with Jonah Hill.
The actor eventually searched treatment in a luxury rehab facility in Switzerland during this time and tried to get more prescription drugs from doctors by lying about severe stomach pain.
“Actually, I was fine,” he said. “It still felt like I was doing a sit-up all the time — so it was very uncomfortable — but it wasn’t a pain.”
Although Perry had already been given hydrocodone from doctors at the facility, they eventually decided to put “some kind of weird medical device” in his back to relieve the pain. This required Perry to undergo surgery.
‘The greatest movie I ever got’: Perry would share three scenes with Meryl Streep, who played President Orlean
On set: Perry pictured filming a scene for Don’t Look Up in Boston, Massachusetts in 2020
Perry said he stayed up all night for the hydrocodone procedure, and the next day, during surgery, he was given the anesthetic propofol.
But his heart eventually stopped five minutes after the dose was given.
“I got the injection at 11 a.m.,” the actor recalls. “I woke up 11 hours later in another hospital. Apparently the propofol had stopped my heart. For five minutes. It wasn’t a heart attack – I didn’t have a flatline – but nothing was wrong.
‘Nothing was beating’: Perry recalled waking 11am after his heart stopped beating for five minutes and a doctor resuscitated him
“I was told that a sturdy Swiss really didn’t want the Friends guy to die on his table and perform CPR on me for five minutes, beating my chest and banging. If I hadn’t been on Friends, would he have stopped at three minutes? Did Friends Save My Life Again?’
“He may have saved my life, but he also broke eight of my ribs,” he wrote.
Perry eventually made the “heartbreaking” decision to leave Don’t Look Up due to all the pain he was in.
‘Heartbreaking’: Perry finally decided to quit Don’t Look Up because of all the pain he was in
He never shot scenes with Meryl, and the only scene he filmed didn’t end up in the movie.
Scheduled for release on November 1, Matthew’s eye-opening memoir sheds light on his battle with addiction.
In his book, he revealed that he spent about $9 million getting sober and recently celebrated 18 months of sobriety.
He also shared how Friends co-star Jennifer Aniston confronted him about his drinking and revealed that she and the rest of the cast “know you’re drinking.”
But he said she was a constant source of support throughout his recovery, adding:[Aniston] was the one that reached the most,” he revealed. “I’m very grateful to her for that.”
All-star movie: Perry would have appeared in a movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence