The story behind the autopsy of Robin Williams

Robin Williams He was one of the most important actors in Hollywood. A master of comedy, but who also knew how to use all his talent in dramatic characters.

With these virtues and many successes, it seemed that there were no limits to his acting career. but on August 14, 2014At the age of 63, the lovable protagonist of “Patches Adams” committed suicide and the world mourned him.

After this tragic event, much was said about the reason for the comedian’s determination and severe depression and even a possible return of the artist to old addictions were cited as possible triggers for his death. But the autopsy was carried out shortly afterwards Williams It helped a lot to clear up the mystery of his death.

It happened that the actor was diagnosed during his lifetime Parkinson’s disease. But in reality he was suffering from another neurodegenerative disease called ” Dementia with wet bodies (LDB), who made the last moments of his life a real torture.

Both are currently widowed Robin Williams, Susan Schneider like one of his children, Zach, They wanted to deny the false speculation about the actor’s death while warning about the little-known illness he suffered from. They said that the comedian suffered Memory loss, paranoia, anxiety attacks and other changes, without unfortunately having an accurate diagnosis of what was happening to him.

The testimony of his son Zak

Zak Williams, The son of the Oscar-winning actor for “In Search of Destiny” said the error in diagnosing his father’s illness left him “very uncomfortable and frustrated” in his final years.

The comedian was assured two years before his death that he was suffering from it Parkinson’s diseasea brain disorder that causes involuntary movements that you cannot control, including tremors, stiffness, or difficulty with balance and coordination.

“What my father went through wasn’t quite the experience of many Parkinson’s patients. I think that was difficult for him,” said the actor’s son in the podcast “The Genius Life” with journalist Max Lugavere, who specializes in science and health.

“There was a focus problem that frustrated him, there were problems related to his emotions and also from a neurological point of view. He wasn’t doing particularly well. “I felt very uncomfortable,” the young man added, assuring that there may have been errors in the medical information and incorrect medications that the comedian received “has made the situation worse.”

The mental illness he really suffered from Williams It also hampered his memory and his characteristic suddenness as an improvising actor, further exacerbating his crises. The thing is, the actor couldn’t stand the fact that his head was failing him and he couldn’t take it.

“He had a panic attack because he couldn’t remember his lines.”

In the documentation about the last years of Robin Williams -Robin’s Wish-, his wife Susan tells what happened to him while filming the third part of “A Night at the Museum”, the film in which the actor played the American president Theodore Roosevelt.

“Robin called me and couldn’t calm down. I had a panic attack because he couldn’t remember some lines from his script. Sometimes he had a hard time remembering a line of dialogue. “This wasn’t a problem he had before, he was the most agile person you could find and so this situation must have been very worrying for him,” the widow said.

In an interview she gave the British media The Guardian the woman Williams She stated how she reacted when she was told her husband’s true illness after the autopsy. “After the autopsy, the doctors told me: “Are you surprised that your husband had Lewy bodies throughout his brain and brain stem?” I didn’t know what Lewy bodies were, but I said, “No, that doesn’t surprise me.” “The fact that something had invaded every part of my husband’s brain gave his behavior meaning,” the woman said.

Dementia with Lewy bodies It is a neurodegenerative disease that is the second most common disease after Alzheimer’s. According to the Mayo Clinic website, protein deposits were called “Lewy body” in the nerve cells of the brain. Protein deposits affect brain regions involved in thinking, memory and movement. This can lead to hallucinations, movement disorders, sleep disorders, apathy and depression.

An important feature of this disease is that it can be accurately and definitively diagnosed only after the patient’s death. This is when you can identify the Lewy body, which appear as dark spots on neurons.

The condition of Robin Williams and his sad end

Susan explains that the problems of Williams They began with stomach pains, then his hands trembled, and later he became afflicted with terrible insomnia. And then the fear grew. “It was very strange that Robin was so paranoid. The problem with the illness he suffered from is that the symptoms don’t appear all at once, but rather change. That’s why it’s so confusing for the patient and the caregiver,” Susan said.

The widow of Daddy Forever’s protagonist claimed that she wanted to spread the word about her husband’s illness process in order to convey it to the world and understand what it was all about. “If my husband wasn’t famous, I wouldn’t be going through all this.“But there are still a lot of misunderstandings about his death and about the Lewy bodies, and I think that’s the right thing to do,” the woman told The Guardian.

So many of the symptoms the actor suffered were unrelated Parkinson’s Robin Williams made the drastic decision to take his own life. “I think he didn’t want to go. “I think he thought, ‘They’re going to lock me up and I’m never coming out,'” he revealed. Susanwho once again made it clear that her husband’s death had nothing to do with his previous addictions: “Robin had been clean and sober for eight years when he died.”

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