As his loved ones raced to the hospital where they were told he had only a 2 per cent chance of surviving the night, doctors were preparing to connect Friends star to a machine nicknamed the 'Hail Mary'.Used to mechanically oxygenate the blood so that the heart and lungs can rest and heal, it is considered a last resort. Perry, then 49, was in need of desperate measures thanks to his years of drug abuse, heavy drinking and dependence on powerful painkillers.On that touch-and-go night in 2018, his addiction to opioids had left him with pneumonia and a burst colon. Shortly after being admitted to hospital he slipped into a coma, which would last two weeks. When he came round he discovered he had been fitted with the colostomy bag he had to wear for the next nine months.
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