How Matthew Perry’s ‘hellish’ colostomy helped him kick his drug addiction

Matthew Perry said having to use a colostomy bag — an external bag for feces to be stored — for a year helped him kick his drug addiction. The “Friends” alum revealed that his “gastrointestinal perforation” in 2019 was actually his colon bursting from opioid abuse, and the damage was so severe he ended up in a coma for two weeks. “I woke up and realized I had a colostomy bag,” he recalled to People magazine. “They said, ‘It’s all too messy down there. We can’t do surgery. But in about a year you can reverse that.’ “It was pretty… Read Full Article