Six Years After Robin Williams’ Untimely Death, This Is The Truth About His Finances
Robin Williams was an extremely successful actor and beloved by movie fans all over the world. When he suddenly died, there was an outpouring of grief and horror, especially since the circumstances were so shocking. But soon after questions arose about what would happen, or had already happened, to the actor’s fortune.
Williams died on August 11, 2014. He’d taken his own life. A vast amount of people posted tributes to him online, but the most touching ones were from his own family. His daughter Zelda seemed to speak for everyone when she said in a statement, “The entire world is forever a little darker, less colorful and less full of laughter in his absence.”
However, the exact reason Williams took his own life was a complicated and painful one. You see, the actor had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease months before his death. But it soon emerged, at his autopsy, that he’d also had something called Lewy body dementia (LBD), a terrible condition which is similar to Parkinson’s. LBD affects the brain and can cause hallucinations amongst other things.
Now, Williams’ wife, Susan Schneider, later published an article in 2016 detailing what living with LBD was like. The piece, entitled “The terrorist inside my husband’s brain,” was a difficult read to say the least. But it was intended to provide an insight into the disease and why, as Schneider claimed, Williams decided to end his life.
As the devastated widow went on to explain, “It felt like he was drowning in his symptoms, and I was drowning along with him. Typically the plethora of LBD symptoms appear and disappear at random times – even throughout the course of a day. I experienced my brilliant husband being lucid with clear reasoning one minute and then, five minutes later, blank, lost in confusion.”
