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  1. Nov 3, 2015 · While fans worldwide believed that Robin Williams committed suicide because of depression, Susan Schneider is now revealing her husband's true killer.

    • The Hidden Struggle That Preceded Robin Williams’ Death
    • How Did Robin Williams Die?
    • The Crippling Disease That Helps Explain Robin Williams’ Death
    • Why Did Robin Williams Take His Own Life?

    Robin Williams was born in Chicago, Illinois on July 21, 1951. The son of an executive for the Ford Motor Company and a former fashion model, Williams was eager to entertain at an early age. From family members to classmates, the future comedian simply wanted to make everyone laugh. When he was a teenager, his family relocated to California. Willia...

    Three months before his death in 2014, Robin Williams was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. He shared the news with his wife Susan Schneider Williams and his three children (from his two previous marriages). However, he wasn’t ready to share the diagnosis with the public quite yet, so his loved ones agreed to keep his condition private for the ti...

    According to his autopsy report, Robin Williams was suffering from Lewy body dementia — a devastating and debilitating brain disease that shares characteristics with both Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. The “Lewy bodies” refer to abnormal clumps of protein that gather in the patient’s brain cells and essentially infiltrate the brain. It’s believed tha...

    While Robin Williams had struggled with drug addiction and alcoholism in the past, he had been clean and sober for eight years before he died. So for his widow, rumors that her husband had relapsed into his old habits again before his death made her feel angry and frustrated. As Susan Schneider Williams later explained, “It infuriated me when the m...

  2. Nov 3, 2015 · Although actor Robin Williams died by suicide, the underlying cause of his death was a rare brain disease called Lewy body dementia, according to his widow.

  3. Aug 13, 2014 · Robin Williams was just one of 39,000 Americans who take their lives each year. The longstanding puzzle is why anyone arrives at so tragic a place.

  4. Aug 12, 2014 · Robin Williams committed suicide by hanging himself with a belt Monday at his Tiburon, California home, Lt. Keith Boyd of the Marin County Sheriff's Office said Tuesday during a press...

  5. Jan 16, 2021 · What Williams never found out was that he had been suffering from the neurological disease Lewy body dementia, a diagnosis that only came to his widow with a post-mortem following his death ...

  6. His death was ruled a suicide. According to his widow, Williams had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, and had been experiencing depression, anxiety and increasing paranoia. [11] .