The investigation into Matthew Perry‘s tragic death will be the subject of a new documentary. On Tuesday, Peacock shared the trailer for Matthew Perry: A Hollywood Tragedy, which will premiere on Feb. 25.
The trailer opens with a recording of the dispatch call made when Perry was found drowned in his home’s hot tub in October 2023. The special will feature an interview with Morgan Fairchild, who played his Friends character’s mother in the beloved sitcom. “He really touched people’s lives,” she says in the trailer.
The Robert Palumbo-directed documentary will include interviews from insiders and journalists, along with Martin Estrada, U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, who charged five people — two doctors, Perry’s live-in assistant, a TV producer, and a woman dubbed Los Angeles’ “Ketamine Queen” — with supplying Perry with the drugs that led to his fatal overdose. (Three of the five people have pleaded guilty.)
“His life was overtaken by addictions… Hollywood is full of enablers,” says one interviewee in the trailer. “They really preyed on somebody vulnerable.”
The new doc — which “tracks the beloved star’s tragic death and the fight for justice in his name” — is produced by ITN Productions, with the company’s Ian Russell, Mike Griffiths, and Robert Palumbo serving as executive producers. The documentary trailer ends with a clip of him with his Friends co-stars as Courteney Cox says, “Matthew Perry is the funniest person in the whole world.”
In an October interview with Today, Perry’s mother, Suzanne Morrison, said she was “thrilled” with the criminal cases in the death investigation. Perry’s stepfather, the Dateline correspondent Keith Morrison, added, “What I’m hoping, and I think the agencies that got involved in this are hoping, that people who have put themselves in the business of supplying people with the drugs that’ll kill them — they are now on notice… You’re goin’ down, baby.”