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Matthew Perry’s life is laid bare in an upcoming documentary, “The One About Matthew Perry,” which explores his career and crippling addiction that ultimately took his life.

“I said, ‘God, you can do anything you want to me, just please make me famous,'” the late “Friends” star — who played Chandler Bing in the hit TV series — recalled in a voiceover, in a new trailer released via Netflix Tuesday.

“I got a phone call [for the role], and I instantly knew my whole life was gonna change. But God did not forget the other part.”

Netflix released a new trailer for “The One About Matthew Perry,” an upcoming documentary about late actor Matthew Perry (seen above in 2023), on Tuesday. Getty Images
The project dives into the “Friends” star’s career, personal life, addictions and more. matthewperry4/Instagram

Perry explained in another clip that he was thrilled when he became famous, but quickly realized that it “doesn’t fix” what was “inside” of him.

“This doesn’t do what I thought it was going to do,” he admitted.

As Page Six previously reported, Perry died in 2023 at the age of 54.

According to the LA County Medical Examiner’s Office, the actor died from “acute effects of ketamine.”

The actor (seen here in 2022) died in 2023 at the age of 54. Getty Images for GQ
Perry was best known for playing Chandler Bing on “Friends.” ©Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection

The autopsy report also listed drowning, coronary artery disease and buprenorphine (an opioid medication) effects as other conditions that contributed to his death.

At the time of his death, Perry had been on ketamine infusion therapy. The actor’s former assistant, Kenneth “Kenny” Iwamasa, was sentenced to 41 months in prison for his role in the fatal overdose.

“All great stories have comedy and tragedy in them, and that was certainly Matthew’s story,” Perry’s sister, Mia Perry Bowick, said in another clip from the new trailer.

She noted that her sibling allegedly spent “$7 million” trying to get sober.

“That’s how seriously he took his disease,” she shared, adding that he would often talk “about that feeling of emptiness, of loneliness, that he couldn’t fight.”

In the documentary, Perry (seen above in a screenshot from the doc) is heard saying, “I said, ‘God, you can do anything you want to me, just please make me famous.'” Netflix
Perry says that fame didn’t fix his feelings of emptiness and loneliness. ©Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection

Perry actually estimated that he spent more than that trying to get sober.

In a 2022 New York Times interview, the “Friends” alum confessed that he’d “probably spent $9 million or something trying to get sober.”

Perry detailed his addiction in his memoir, “Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing.”

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Perry wrote about his addictions in his memoir.
The documentary is called “The One About Matthew Perry.” Netflix

He divulged that he nearly died at age 49 when his colon burst from opioid overuse, and he spent two weeks in a coma, five months in a hospital and had to use a colostomy bag for nine months.

“The doctors told my family that I had a two percent chance to live,” he confessed.

The three-part documentary, which hits Netflix on Oct. 27, includes interviews with friends, several former girlfriends and work colleagues.

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