As OK! previously reported, Perry said it was his near death experiences that prompted him to completely cut drugs out of his life. “My therapist said, ‘The next time you think about taking OxyContin, just think about having a colostomy bag for the rest of your life,'” the actor shared in a recent interview. “And a little window opened, and I crawled through it, and I no longer want OxyContin.”
“I wanted to share when I was safe from going into the dark side of everything again,” Perry continued. “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. And the main thing was, I was pretty certain that it would help people.”
