Overview
- The three-part series The One About Matthew Perry premiered on Netflix on Oct. 27, 2026 and centers on interviews and home footage from his sister Mia Perry Bowick and other close family and friends.
- Bowick, a licensed psychotherapist featured heavily in the film, says Perry spent about $7 million on repeated treatment and calls for viewing his substance use disorder as a chronic disease.
- The documentary confirms long-documented medical crises and decades of treatment that Perry wrote about in his 2022 memoir and discussed in past interviews.
- Filmmaker Mary Robertson says the five core Friends castmates were approached but declined on-camera participation, leaving the family perspective to shape the series’ portrait.
- Federal prosecutions tied to ketamine distribution produced guilty pleas and prison sentences for several defendants, a legal thread the film highlights as part of the aftermath of Perry’s 2023 death.