Todd Bridges Shares Last Conversation With Gary Coleman as New Doc Released About Late Co-Star

DIFF'RENT STROKES, from top, Gary Coleman, Todd Bridges, 1978-86 (1980 photo).
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As the dark side of being a child star remains a hot topic, Peacock brings GARY, a new documentary centered on the career, life, and death of one of the biggest child stars Gary Coleman. He gained worldwide fame charming audiences on the hit sitcom Diff’rent Strokes and with his iconic catchphrase “What You Talkin’ ‘Bout Willis?”

This kind of success can be a blessing and a curse. The price of forever finding himself in the public eye as he battled illness, depression, financial trouble, run-ins with the law, and a tumultuous marriage. Coleman died in 2010 from a reported brain hemorrhage. He was 42. The circumstances of his death are examined in the 90-minute film.