Matthew Perry is talking about the health problem he had a few years ago that almost killed him.

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Doctors were going to tell the actor's family that he only had a 2% chance of living..

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The 53-year-old Friends star says he spent five months in the hospital and two weeks in a coma aged 49. His colostomy bag has to use for nine months..

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"The doctors told my family that I only had a 2% chance of living," he tells People.

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He was put on a machine called an ECMO, which helps your heart and lungs breathe for you. This is known as a "Hail Mary." No one can handle that.

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Perry's new autobiography, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, which will come out on November 1, talks about his problems with alcohol and painkillers.

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He wanted to tell everyone when it was safe for him to go back into the dark side of things again," he says in an exclusive cover story for the magazine.

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He had to wait until he was pretty sure he was clean and no longer suffering from alcoholism or addiction.

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The actor had talked before about his struggles with drug abuse, but the seriousness of his health crisis at age 49 had been kept secret.

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He also talks about his drug and alcohol use during the run of Friends.

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