"My Heart Stopped For Five Minutes" Matthew Perry On His New Book And The Day He Almost Died

Stephen’s conversation with Matthew Perry continues with one of the more harrowing stories in his book, about a major health scare in 2019 and the man who saved his life. Read this story and more in Matthew’s book, “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing,” available everywhere now.

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