![]() The work was less abundant than it used to be and nowhere near as lucrative, and so much of it seemed to be focused on finality, particularly in the form of death. His reporting draws on the perspectives of some of Williams’s closest confidants and family members, including Billy Crystal his Mork & Mindy co-star Pam Dawber his oldest son, Zak Williams his daughter-in-law, Alex Mallick-Williams his makeup artist, Cheri Minns and his old friends Mark Pitta, Cyndi McHale, and Wendy Asher. Here, Itzkoff traces the last few months of Williams’s life. Even more crushing than this is the possibility that Williams was misdiagnosed an autopsy would later reveal that he actually had Lewy body dementia, an aggressive and incurable brain disorder that has an associated risk of suicide. ![]() Meanwhile, Williams was also reeling from a cataclysmic diagnosis: in May 2014, he had been told that he had Parkinson’s disease, news that stunned and overwhelmed the once-nimble comedian. He was still harboring guilt about his divorce from Marsha Garces, his second wife and mother of two of his children, and adjusting to life with his new wife, Susan Schneider, whom he married in 2011. His film career had stalled, and his comeback sitcom, The Crazy Ones, was failing to find an audience on CBS. In the months that preceded his death, Williams faced daunting challenges, both professionally and personally. ![]() Robin Williams’s August 2014 suicide was devastating to those who knew him best-and it also came at the end of a long and difficult decline, as this excerpt from New York Times culture reporter Dave Itzkoff’s new biography, Robin, demonstrates. ![]()
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