Matthew Perry said Jennifer Aniston reached out to him 'the most' during his opioid addiction battle

• Matthew Perry said Jennifer Aniston reached out "the most" during his opioid addiction battle.
• He also said his "Friends" co-star once confronted him and said: "We know you're drinking."

Matthew Perry said Jennifer Aniston reached out to him "the most" during his opioid addiction battle.

ABC shared a snippet from his upcoming interview with Diane Sawyer on Friday in which the "Friends" star, 53, discusses his forthcoming memoir "Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing" due to be released on October 28.

The book details Perry's alcohol and drug addiction, which at some point included him taking "55 Vicodin a day" plus "Methadone, Xanax, a full quart of vodka a day," Sawyer says in the clip.

However, the actor, who played Chandler Bing in "Friends" from 1994 to 2004, says there was one friend in particular who provided continuous support through the journey.

"She was the one who reached out the most," Perry said of Aniston, 53, who he referred to in the interview as "Jenny." "I'm really grateful to her for that," he added.

In a different clip from the interview, Sawyer – referencing Perry's book – said Aniston once confronted him about his addiction, telling him: "We know you're drinking."

"Imagine how scary a moment that was," Perry said.

The actor's journey to recovery had other scary moments, including the time when he said he almost died after his colon burst from his opioid use.

As Insider previously reported, the actor revealed the near-death experience, which happened when he was 49, in his memoir. At the time of the incident, Perry did not disclose the cause of the perforation to the media.

Privately, he said he was given a "2% chance to live" by his doctors. "I was put on a thing called an ECMO machine, which does all the breathing for your heart and your lungs. And that's called a Hail Mary. No one survives that," he said.

Perry said he was in a coma for two weeks and was in hospital for five months. He had to use a colostomy bag for nine months.

By revealing his issues, Perry told People Magazine he hoped to help others. "I wanted to share when I was safe from going into the dark side of everything again," he said.

"I had to wait until I was pretty safely sober — and away from the active disease of alcoholism and addiction — to write it all down. The main thing was, I was pretty certain that it would help people."