Robin Williams - I Believe He Earned His Own Thread

[Dr. Evil]

Letterman is back tonight, so we know he will have something to say about Robin tonight.

 

[danoyse]

Letterman's tribute:

 

[AnneFan]

Mrs Doubtfire showing her appreciation for Die Another Day

 

[NoLaNitE007]

Letterman's tribute:

Nice....

 

[NoLaNitE007]

and thank YOU for this post

I was practically raised watching this guys brilliance the past 4 decades.

An absolute tour de force and a comedic and onscreen icon IMO.

 

[Howlett]

I was practically raised watching this guys brilliance the past 4 decades.

An absolute tour de force and a comedic and screen icon IMO.

A lot of us were.

The best part is that he was an incredible human being. It makes me so sad to know that he was silently suffering alone for so long while everyone loved him.

 

[NoLaNitE007]

A lot of us were.

The best part is that he was an incredible human being. It makes me so sad to know that he was silently suffering alone for so long while everyone loved him.

Yeah. That's the hard part. My wife is a psychologist and it eats her alive to wondering where was the help for him....but guys like him...disguise it very well.

 

[terry78]

http://healthywoodhills.com/health/rob-schneider-blames-robin-williamss-death-on-parkinsons-drugs/

You heard about this? Rob Schneider basically saying the drugs Williams was taking for Parkinson's were the cause.

 

[Rodrigo90]

 

[Howlett]

 

[3dman27]

nice

 

[Rodrigo90]

 

[bullets]

You know, I've been looking back at his various roles that I've watched and I honestly don't think Robin Williams ever actually turned in a bad performance. He's been in bad movies, sure, but he never once phoned it in. He gave his 100% to whatever movie, gold or crap, he put his name to.

Rv was on tv a few months ago and I wasn't going to watch it , but as soon I saw Robin Williams I gave it a chance. It's not the type of film I'd ordinarily be interested in yet Williams was still amusing. I really can't say he was ever bad in something.

 

[Rodrigo90]

100% classed as a suicide.

Hanged himself, cut his wrists, and also high ammounts of drugs and alcohol were found in his system.

What sort of pain was he in to do all that to himself?

 

[Feenix]

100% classed as a suicide.

Hanged himself, cut his wrists, and also high ammounts of drugs and alcohol were found in his system.

What sort of pain was he in to do all that to himself?

Incorrect. No drugs or alcohol were found in his system.
http://www.edmontonsun.com/2014/11/07/no-drugs-involved-in-robin-williams-suicide
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/robin-williams-autopsy-found-no-alcohol-illegal-drugs/

 

[Rodrigo90]

My bad. ****ing reporting from some journalists Jesus.

 

[Feenix]

My bad. ****ing reporting from some journalists Jesus.

That is pretty terrible. Sensationalism is one thing, but outright lying is another. Shame on them.

 

[Rodrigo90]

That is pretty terrible. Sensationalism is one thing, but outright lying is another. Shame on them.

They have zero shame.

Funnily enough, I was having a spat with Diane Dimond on Twitter the other day and when I pointed out that Tom Sneddon, during the Michael Jackson 2005 trial, gave a magazine to Gavin Arvizo, which caused controversy according to the official transcripts, that his fingerprints on the magazine indicated a sign of falsifying evidence, she called me a liar, said it was a myth and blocked me lol

How could I be lying if it's right there in the transcripts and made the news?

Journalists are scum.

 

[Maximus One]

Ugh, this still gets to me. I was sitting in a Mexican place with my parents when I read on facebook that it had happened. I almost threw up at the table. Tears literally started rolling down my cheeks and my parents are all "Whats wrong?" and I'm all, "Robin Williams ****ing hung himself" and I had to get up and go out to the car and be alone. They couldn't understand why I was so upset. I felt like I lost a grandparent. No other actor has effected me like Robin Williams ever. Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Heath Ledger saddened me and everything. Williams' death actually felt like it made me actually grieve. I still get misty eyed thinking about it.

 

[Rodrigo90]

Same here.

I hate hearing about things in such a crude manner.
When Michael Jackson died, I first found out about it on the Hype, as people were taking the piss.
With Robin, I found out on FB. People who are younger asking about if it was Robbie Williams the singer. Some had never even heard about Robin Williams, didn't know who he was.

All that sucked. Michael dying was bad for me.
Robin's death affected me by causing me to have a panic attack when thinking about him and I've never experienced that in my life

 

[Teelie]

His widow has released some new information on what may have caused his suicide. In short she blames Lewy Body Dementia.

It wasn't discovered until the autopsy that this is what he had, not early onset Parkinson's.The excerpt on what it is:

Though not nearly as well known (or talked about) as Alzheimer's disease, which accounts for more than half of dementia diagnoses in the United States, Lewy body dementia, or LBD, is the second most common type of progressive dementia.

LBD is caused when normal proteins in the brain begin to aggregate, forming clumps called Lewy bodies that, as they spread, "muck up the ability for the brain to transmit signals," said Dr. James Leverenz of the Cleveland Clinic.

Like Alzheimer's disease, symptoms of LBD include cognitive problems like confusion, reduced attention span, and memory loss, Taylor said.

But LBD also affects a patient's movements, as well as their mood, making it a "triple threat," Taylor said.

"It's not just memory, it's not just movement, and it's not just behavior. It's a combination of all three, which makes it difficult to diagnose and difficult to treat," Leverenz said.

Robin Williams' widow speaks: Depression didn't kill my husband

Comedian Robin Williams' widow, Susan Williams, said she and her husband "were living a nightmare" in the months leading up to his death.

"My best friend was sinking," an emotional Williams told ABC's Amy Robach in an interview that aired Tuesday, her first since Robin Williams killed himself in August 2014.

Williams said she's spent the last year trying to get to the bottom of what led him to take his own life. Contrary to what most people think, she said, it wasn't depression, nor was it a re-emergence of his longtime struggles with alcohol and drug addiction.

Robin Williams had no alcohol or illegal drugs in his system; he'd been sober for eight years, his wife said.

What drove her husband to suicide, "was what was going on in his brain," Williams said.

"The chemical warfare that no one knew about."

'Chemical warfare'

That "chemical warfare" that doctors conducting Robin Williams' autopsy discovered was Lewy body dementia.

Though not nearly as well known (or talked about) as Alzheimer's disease, which accounts for more than half of dementia diagnoses in the United States, Lewy body dementia, or LBD, is the second most common type of progressive dementia.

Nearly 1.4 million Americans are known to have the disease, but because it's a relatively "young disorder," Angela Taylor, director of programming for the Lewy Body Dementia Association said, that number is likely much higher.

LBD is caused when normal proteins in the brain begin to aggregate, forming clumps called Lewy bodies that, as they spread, "muck up the ability for the brain to transmit signals," said Dr. James Leverenz of the Cleveland Clinic.

Like Alzheimer's disease, symptoms of LBD include cognitive problems like confusion, reduced attention span, and memory loss, Taylor said.

But LBD also affects a patient's movements, as well as their mood, making it a "triple threat," Taylor said.

"It's not just memory, it's not just movement, and it's not just behavior. It's a combination of all three, which makes it difficult to diagnose and difficult to treat," Leverenz said.

'Endless parade of symptoms'

Susan Williams recalls thinking her husband was a hypochondriac, when, starting in November 2013, every month he seemed to complain about a different ailment.

Like a game of "whack-a-mole," Robin Williams was wrought with a severe pain in his gut, sleeplessness and constipation, she said.

After months of heightened anxiety and paranoia about his health, Susan Williams said, Robin Williams felt a small "sense of relief" when he was diagnosed with early onset Parkinson's disease in May 2014.

While Parkinson's disease, which like Alzheimer's has no cure, is hardly good news, Susan Williams said it was nice to have a possible answer for her husband's seemingly "endless parade of symptoms."

Parkinson's, a nervous system disorder that affects movement, could be blamed for the tremor in Robin Williams' left hand, but Susan Williams said it didn't explain everything.

'I miscalculated'

Susan Williams breaks down as she remembers what she witnessed on July 24, 2014, just months after Robin Williams was diagnosed with Parkinson's.

She was in the shower when she noticed her husband lingering by the sink. She opened the door to find him holding a bloodied towel, a severe gash on his head.

"Robin, what happened?" she screamed.

She said he motioned toward the door, and said just two words, "I miscalculated."

Though she didn't know it then, Susan Williams said LBD had affected his vision and his ability to recognize and identify objects, like the door.

Susan Williams said despite his diagnosis, her husband of three years was happy.

"Lewy body dementia killed Robin," she told Robach.

Changing capacity to do things

As Lewy bodies form and take over different parts of the brain affecting body movement, mind and mood, patients suffering from LBD experience symptoms of a person with both Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, conditions that alone are devastating.

Because Robin Williams was a very active and very successful person, it's understandable that he would have grown depressed about his "changing capacity to do things he used to do," Leverenz said.

Susan Williams said she believes her husband was losing his mind, and "he was aware of it."

His decision to use a belt to hang himself from his bedroom door was, in Susan Williams' opinion, his way of taking his power back, a painful choice for which she immediately forgave him.

After emergency responders realized they couldn't revive him, Susan Williams got to see him.

"And I got to tell him, 'I forgive you 50 billion percent, with all my heart. You're the bravest man I've ever known.'"

CNN

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Man, getting old sucks

 

[Napoleon]

I can't believe it's been more than a year already and I still feel his loss.

 

[Jumpin' Jack]

Watched Good Will Hunting again the other day, and it really struck me hard when I remembered half way through the movie he isn't around anymore.

 

[RetrogradeOrbit]

Still miss the guy...

I don't think any other celebrity death has ever affected me this much, the next closest for me would have had to been Christopher Reeve. Both when he had his accident and upon his death.