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MOVIE ICON: Robin Williams, photographed here in 2009. Photo: Matt Sayles / AP
“Heartbreaking,” writes Variety about the documentary in which Robin Williams’ widow embroiders the star’s last days.
Six years after the death of her husband, Susan Schneider Williams (56) speaks in the television documentary entitled “Robin’s Wish”. The goal is to honor Williams’ memory.
– He was my greatest love, my best friend and partner, he says in an interview with the television program «Today».
Award-winning actor Robin Williams took his own life on August 11, 2014, at the age of 63. By then, the comedian legend had struggled with his health for a while. Three months earlier, he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s.
The wife says they were both convinced that it was more than Parkinson’s that was causing the problems, which included motor skills and memory problems.
WIDOW: Susan Schneider and Robin Williams premiere in Los Angeles in 2009. Photo: FRED PROUSER / Reuters
Schneider claims that her husband struggled with severe insomnia, paranoia, and hallucinations.
– He told me he wanted to restart the brain, says Schneider.
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Variety looks at how Schneider in the documentary recounts her husband’s panic attack from not remembering the comments during the filming of “Night at the Museum 3” shortly before his death.
– I do not know what is happening. I’m not myself anymore, a desperate and upset Williams is said to have explained to his wife over the phone.
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«Honest, scary, heartbreaking and heartwarming», Is the Variety critic on the deep immersion in the destiny of Williams, which also pretends to focus on dementia.
«A portrait of a courageous and humorous artist with a troubled soul. This is also a diary showing how Robin Williams slowly lost his mind»Writes the newspaper.
The widow says many of the last nights were filled with severe anxiety attacks, where Williams was disoriented and delusional. A particularly painful moment when a doctor suggested they sleep in separate rooms in hopes of improving their sleep.
– Then Robin said to me: “Does that mean we are separated?” For me, it was a shock to hear it, she says.
He received a reply after his death.
Schneider promised Williams that they would get to the bottom of what devastated his body. She never did that before he decided to leave life. Only after the autopsy did the widow learn that her husband also suffered from the rare neurological disease Lewy body dementia (LBD).
– I was relieved that the condition had been given a name. Robin and I had talked a lot about how she felt, the feeling of actually being chased by an invisible monster, she tells “Today”.
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Williams battled depression and alcohol addiction for three decades, but continued to be a loving husband until recently. Just weeks before he died, he surprised his wife with flowers at the store they met for the first time.
The couple are said to have talked about what they wanted to look back on in terms of accomplishments as they approached the end of their lives.
Without hesitation, Robin said it would have made other people a little less scared. I think it was beautiful and I assured him that I had already done it.
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Williams has a long list of movies on her merit list, including “Good Morning Vietnam,” “The Unique Will Hunting,” “Patch Adams,” “Insomnia,” “Hamlet,” and “Mrs. Doubtfire.”
The new television documentary is available on the video market.
