Matthew Perry's Exclusive Diane Sawyer Interview Sneak Peek

Matthew Perry is hoping to crook his conflict with addiction into thing positive.

In an exclusive look astatine the trailer for his primetime interrogation with Diane Sawyer, airing Oct. 28 connected ABC, the histrion opens up astir his struggles with addiction similar ne'er before—because helium says helium had nary different choice.

"Secrets termination you," Perry says. "Secrets termination radical similar me."

Perry tells Sawyer astir the rampant cause and intoxicant usage that controlled his life during the tallness of his career, and however it astir derailed everything.

"At the clip I should person been the toast of the town," Perry reveals, "I was successful a acheronian country gathering thing but cause dealers and wholly alone."

The Friends star tells Sawyer that, successful the depths of his addiction, helium was taking "55 Vicodin a day" successful summation to the "Methadone, Xanax, a afloat quart of vodka a day" mentioned by Sawyer. 

Perry tells Sawyer helium was "in a coma and escaped decease truly narrowly," which he besides reveals successful his memoir, Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing, besides disposable Oct. 28.

As Perry and Sawyer locomotion done his home, helium explains wherefore helium was finally acceptable to get candid astir his life, saying, "It was important to maine to bash thing that would assistance people."

The one-hour peculiar Matthew Perry—The Diane Sawyer Interview, which besides promises to reveal never earlier shared details from down the scenes of Friends, premieres Oct. 28 astatine 8 p.m. connected ABC.