Less than a week after “Friends” star Matthew Perry’s death, a foundation helping people battle alcohol and drug addiction has been created in his name.

The website for the Matthew Perry Foundation went live Friday. The foundation “is the realization of Matthew’s enduring commitment to helping others struggling with the disease of addiction. It will honor his legacy and be guided by his own words and experiences and driven by his passion for making a difference in as many lives as possible,” according to the website.

The site also includes a quote from Perry’s interview last year on the “Q with Tom Power” podcast, in which Perry said: “When I die, I don’t want ‘Friends’ to be the first thing that’s mentioned — I want helping others to be the first thing that’s mentioned. And I’m going to live the rest of my life proving that.

“Addiction is far too powerful for anyone to defeat alone. But together, one day at a time, we can beat it down.”

The foundation is being sponsored by the National Philanthropic Trust. The trust did not immediately respond to an email from Spectrum News on Friday seeking more information about the foundation.

Perry, 54, was found dead Saturday in the hot tub of his Los Angeles home, according to reports. An investigation into how the actor died is ongoing.

Best known for playing the role of Chandler Bing on the hit sitcom “Friends,” Perry had been candid about his struggles with addiction. He said he became addicted to Vicodin following a 1997 jet ski accident and went to rehab in 2001. Last year, the five-time Emmy Award nominee revealed that his drug addiction nearly killed him at age 49, that he spent two weeks in a coma and that his colon burst from excessive opioid use.

Perry said he went to rehab 15 times and estimated he spent around $9 million fighting his addiction before finally achieving long-term sobriety beginning in 2021.

Before he died, Perry had been making plans to establish a foundation to help people with addiction, according to multiple reports.

It would not have been his first such venture. From 2013-15, Perry ran a sober-living facility for men at his former Malibu, California, beachfront home. He also said in interviews that he wrote about his addiction in his book, “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing,” to help those dealing with similar struggles.

“I wanted to share when I was safe from going into the dark side of everything again,” he told People last year. “I had to wait until I was pretty safely sober — and away from the active disease of alcoholism and addiction — to write it all down. And the main thing was, I was pretty certain that it would help people.”