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Gary Coleman's Life 'Fraught with Disappointments' Takes Center Stage in Peacock's New Doc GARY

In PEOPLE's exclusive first look at Peacock's new documentary 'GARY', fans will learn more about the 'cautionary tale' of late 'Diff’rent Strokes' child actor Gary Coleman and the story of his tumultuous life and death.

While others describe Diff'rent Strokes as "groundbreaking" and share how the "audience loved Gary," vintage footage of the late actor reveals that his life behind-the-scenes was much darker. "If someone had told me that my life would have been like this early enough where I could have got out, I would have got out," Coleman says in found footage as news reports reveal that his parents and business advisors "skimmed some of his earnings." Coleman rose to fame playing Arnold Jackson, the plucky Harlem boy adopted into a wealthy white household on Diff’rent Strokes from 1978-86 – with his much-mimicked catchphrase of, “What’choo talkin’ ’bout, Willis?”

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