Netflix The One About Matthew Perry documentary
by Meghan Fatou: Matthew Perry
A three-part documentary called The One About Matthew Perry is coming to Netflix, and it's an intimate one. His sister, friends, and collaborators all share their own memories of him. What the series gets into is his life, what he struggled with, and how much honesty shaped what he left behind. October 27 is the premiere date. From the footage, you also hear how badly he wanted in on making people laugh, how fame didn't fix whatever was going on inside him or fill that emptiness and loneliness, and how he put $7 million toward getting sober. People warned him his behavior could kill him. One friend of 40 years says Matthew introducing himself as an alcoholic saved their life in that moment. Making people laugh is what gave him that connection and that good feeling. fr
Transcript (en)
Making people laugh. It's a world that I want to be involved in. I said, God, you can do anything you want to me. Just please make me famous. I got a phone call. Hello? And I instantly knew my whole life was going to change. But God did not forget the other part. All great stories have comedy and tragedy in them, and that certainly was Matthew's story. I was extremely happy when I got famous. Then I was like, uh-oh, this didn't fix what's inside me. This didn't do what I thought it was going to do. My brother would talk about that feeling of emptiness or loneliness that he couldn't quite fill. He spent $7 million trying to get sober. That's how seriously he took his disease. I had people telling me to stop, say, you're going to kill yourself if you keep going like this. And I just didn know how The world is saying goodbye to a beloved actor and one of our best friends So this is the funny part of the documentary As Matthew's buddy for 40 years, he would definitely want everyone to talk about how great he was He meant so much in so many ways Matthew recognized this is an area where he could really make a huge difference. I wanted to introduce myself and say that my name is Matthew and I'm an alcoholic. He saved my life right there in that moment. I believe that. How funny he was. When he made people laugh, it made him feel good. To have that connection with an audience is a wonderful, sacred thing. And how we miss him. I missed you guys. I missed all of you.
