Friends star Matthew Perry has opened up about a near-death experience several years ago due to his struggles with alcoholism and opioid addiction.

In an interview with People magazine for its cover story, Perry, 53, said he was given a 2% chance of survival in 2018 during an extended stint in the hospital. At the time, a representative of the actor said he had experienced a gastrointestinal perforation.

Now, Perry is elaborating, saying he spent weeks fighting to stay alive after his colon burst from opioid overuse. He was in a coma for two weeks and spent five months in the hospital. He also had to use a colostomy bag for nine months, he told People.

I was put on a thing called an ECMO machine, which does all the breathing for your heart and your lungs. And thats called a Hail Mary. No one survives that, he said.