The beloved comedian would have turned 71 years old.
Comedian Robin Williams, who even won an Oscar PDO
Comedian Robin Williams son Zachary Pym Williams has remembered his late father on his birthday. Williams would have turned 71 on Thursday.
– Happy 71st birthday, Dad! I remember you today as you would like to be remembered: in a spandex outfit. I miss and love you forever, Zachary Williams writes in connection with the picture he published.
Good Will Hunting Williams, who won an Oscar for the movie, was known as an avid cyclist. In the picture, the beloved comedian poses with a bicycle, wearing a bicycle helmet and wearing a spandex outfit.
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Before his death, however, Williams became frustrated with his health problems, which began to affect the things he loved, including cycling. He committed suicide at home in 2014.
Williams had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, but this diagnosis was proven incorrect in an autopsy. At that time, it turned out that Williams actually had Lewy body disease, which is the second most common degenerative brain disease after Alzheimer’s disease.
– I saw him get frustrated, 39-year-old Zachary Williams said last year in an interview with The Genius Life podcast.
– What he experienced did not correspond to the experiences of most Parkinson’s patients. I think it was very difficult for him.
According to Zachary Williams, his father suffered from problems with concentration, among other things. His father also had problems with his own health recently.
– Also from a neurological point of view, he was not well. He felt uncomfortable, he said.
The son partly blames the wrong medication, which he believes has further weakened his father’s health.
– These medicines are no joke. They are hard on the mind as well as the body, he states.
In the podcast, Zachary Williams also told how his father’s death took him hard. To survive the tragic experience, he grabbed the bottle, which is obviously not the right solution.
– I medicated myself with alcohol to cope with the trauma, he said.
Later, he sought the help of a psychiatrist and was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. Since then, he has received help from, among other things, group therapy.