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Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951 - August 11, 2014) was an American actor and comedian. Known for his improvisational skills and the wide variety of characters he created on the spur of the moment and portrayed on film, in dramas and comedies alike, he is regarded as one of the greatest comedians of all time. He received numerous accolades including an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and five Grammy Awards.

Williams began performing stand-up comedy in San Francisco and Los Angeles during the mid-1970s, and released several comedy albums including Reality ... What a Concept in 1980. He rose to fame playing the alien Mork in the ABC sitcom (1978-1982). He received his first leading film role in (1980). Williams went on to win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Good Will Hunting (1997). His other Oscar-nominated roles were for Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), Dead Poets Society (1989), and The Fisher King (1991).

Williams starred in the critically acclaimed dramas The World According to Garp (1982), Moscow on the Hudson (1984), Dead Poets Society (1989), Awakenings (1990), Patch Adams (1998), (2002), One Hour Photo (2002), and World's Greatest Dad (2009). He also starred in family films such as (1991), Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), (1995), (1996), (1997), (2006), and the Night at the Museum trilogy (2006-2014). He lent his voice to the animated films (1992), (2005), (2006), and its 2011 sequel.

Williams was found dead at his home in Paradise Cay, California, in August 2014, at the age of 63. At the time of his suicide, he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. According to his widow, Williams had experienced depression, anxiety, and increasing paranoia. His autopsy found "diffuse Lewy body disease" and Lewy body dementia professionals said his symptoms were consistent with dementia with Lewy bodies.

Williams was born at St. Luke's Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, on July 21, 1951. His father, Robert Fitzgerald Williams (1906-1987), was a senior executive in Ford's Lincoln-Mercury Division. His mother, Laurie McLaurin (1922-2001), was a former model from Jackson, Mississippi, whose great-grandfather was Mississippi senator and governor Anselm J. McLaurin. Williams had two older half-brothers: a paternal half-brother, Robert (also known as Todd), and a maternal half-brother, McLaurin. While his mother was a practitioner of Christian Science, Williams was raised in his father's Episcopal faith. During a television interview on Inside the Actors Studio in 2001, Williams credited his mother as an important early influence on his humor, and he tried to make her laugh to gain attention.

Williams attended public elementary school in Lake Forest at Gorton Elementary School and middle school at Deer Path Junior High School. He described himself as a quiet child who did not overcome his shyness until he became involved with his high school drama department. His friends recall him as very funny. In late 1963, when Williams was 12, his father was transferred to Detroit. The family lived in a 40-room farmhouse on 20 acres (8 ha) in suburban Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where he was a student at the private Detroit Country Day School. He excelled in school, where he was on the school's wrestling team and was elected class president.

As both his parents worked, Williams was partially raised by the family's maid, who was his main companion. When he was 16, his father took early retirement and the family moved to Tiburon, California. Following their move, Williams attended Redwood High School in nearby Larkspur. At the time of his graduation in 1969, he was voted "Most Likely Not to Succeed" and "Funniest" by his classmates. After high school graduation, Williams enrolled at Claremont Men's College in Claremont, California, to study political science; he dropped out to pursue acting. Williams studied theater for three years at the College of Marin, a community college in Kentfield, California. According to the College of Marin's drama professor, James Dunn, the depth of the young actor's talent became evident when he was cast in the musical as Fagin. Williams often improvised during his time in the drama program, leaving cast members in hysterics. Dunn called his wife after one late rehearsal to tell her Williams "was going to be something special".

In 1973, Williams attained a full scholarship to the Juilliard School ( Group 6, 1973-1976) in New York City. He was one of 20 students accepted into the freshman class, and he and Christopher Reeve were the only two accepted by John Houseman into the Advanced Program at the school that year. William Hurt and Mandy Patinkin were also classmates. According to biographer Jean Dorsinville, Franklyn Seales and Williams were roommates at Juilliard. Reeve remembered his first impression of Williams when they were new students at Juilliard: "He wore tie-dyed shirts with tracksuit bottoms and talked a mile a minute. I'd never seen so much energy contained in one person. He was like an untied balloon that had been inflated and immediately released. I watched in awe as he virtually caromed off the walls of the classrooms and hallways. To say that he was 'on' would be a major understatement."

Williams and Reeve had a class in dialects taught by Edith Skinner, who Reeve said was one of the world's leading voice and speech teachers; according to Reeve, Skinner was bewildered by Williams and his ability to instantly perform in many different accents. Their primary acting teacher was Michael Kahn, who was "equally baffled by this human dynamo". Williams already had a reputation for being funny, but Kahn criticized his antics as simple stand-up comedy. In a later production, Williams silenced his critics with his well-received performance as an old man in Tennessee Williams's Night of the Iguana. Reeve wrote, "He simply was the old man. I was astonished by his work and very grateful that fate had thrown us together." The two remained close friends until Reeve's death in 2004. Their friendship was like "brothers from another mother", according to Williams's son Zak.

During the summers of 1974, 1975, and 1976, Williams worked as a busboy at The Trident in Sausalito, California. He left Juilliard during his junior year in 1976 at the suggestion of Houseman, who said there was nothing more Juilliard could teach him. Gerald Freedman, another of his teachers at Juilliard, said Williams was a "genius" and that the school's conservative and classical style of training did not suit him; no one was surprised that he left.

Stand-up comedy

Williams began performing stand-up comedy in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1976. He gave his first performance at the Holy City Zoo, a comedy club in San Francisco, where he worked his way up from tending bar. In the 1960s, San Francisco was a center for a rock music renaissance, hippies, drugs, and a sexual revolution, and in the late 1970s, Williams helped lead its "comedy renaissance", writes critic Gerald Nachman. Williams says he found out about "drugs and happiness" during that period, adding that he saw "the best brains of my time turned to mud".

Williams moved to Los Angeles and continued performing stand-up at clubs, including The Comedy Store. There, in 1977, he was seen by TV producer George Schlatter, who asked him to appear on a revival of his show Laugh-In. The show aired in late 1977 and was his debut TV appearance. That year, Williams also performed a show at the L.A. Improv for Home Box Office. While the Laugh-In revival failed, it led Williams into his television career; he continued performing stand-up at comedy clubs such as the Roxy to help keep his improvisational skills sharp. In England, Williams performed at The Fighting Cocks.[citation needed ]

With his success on , Williams began to reach a wider audience with his stand-up comedy, starting in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, including three HBO comedy specials: Off The Wall (1978), An Evening with Robin Williams (1983), and A Night at the Met (1986). Williams won a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album for the recording of his 1979 live show at the Copacabana in New York City, Reality... What a Concept.

David Letterman, who knew Williams for nearly 40 years, recalls seeing him first perform as a new comedian at The Comedy Store in Hollywood, where Letterman and other comedians had already been doing stand-up. "He came in like a hurricane", said Letterman, who said he then thought to himself, "Holy crap, there goes my chance in show business."

Williams said that, partly due to the stress of performing stand-up, he started using drugs and alcohol early in his career. He further said that he neither drank nor took drugs while on stage, but occasionally performed when hung over from the previous day. During the period he was using cocaine, he said it made him paranoid when performing on stage.

Williams once described the life of stand-up comedians as follows:

It's a brutal field, man. They burn out. It takes its toll. Plus, the lifestyle-partying, drinking, drugs. If you're on the road, it's even more brutal. You gotta come back down to mellow your ass out, and then performing takes you back up. They flame out because it comes and goes. Suddenly they're hot, and then somebody else is hot. Sometimes they get very bitter. Sometimes they just give up. Sometimes they have a revival thing and they come back again. Sometimes they snap. The pressure kicks in. You become obsessed and then you lose that focus that you need.

Some, such as the critic Vincent Canby, were concerned that his monologues were so intense that it seemed as though at any minute his "creative process could reverse into a complete meltdown". His biographer, Emily Herbert, described his "intense, utterly manic style of stand-up [which sometimes] defies analysis... [going] beyond energetic, beyond frenetic... [and sometimes] dangerous... because of what it said about the creator's own mental state".

Williams felt secure that he would not run out of ideas, as the constant change in world events would keep him supplied. He also explained that he often used free association of ideas while improvising to keep the audience interested. The competitive nature of the show made things difficult. For example, some comedians said that Williams had stolen their jokes, which Williams strongly denied. David Brenner claims that he confronted Williams's agent and threatened bodily harm if he heard Williams utter another one of his jokes. Whoopi Goldberg defended him, asserting that it is difficult for comedians not to reuse another comedian's material, and that it is done "all the time". He later avoided going to performances of other comedians to deter similar accusations.

During a interview in 1992, Williams was asked whether he ever feared losing his balance between his work and his life. He replied, "There's that fear-if I felt like I was becoming not just dull but a rock, that I still couldn't speak, fire off or talk about things, if I'd start to worry or got too afraid to say something.... If I stop trying, I get afraid." While he attributed the recent suicide of novelist Jerzy Kosiński to his fear of losing his creativity and sharpness, Williams felt he could overcome those risks. For that, he credited his father for strengthening his self-confidence, telling him to never be afraid of talking about subjects which were important to him.

Williams's stand-up work was a consistent thread throughout his career, as seen by the success of his one-man show (and subsequent DVD) Robin Williams: Live on Broadway (2002). In 2004, he was voted 13th on Comedy Central's list of "100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time". After a six-year hiatus, in August 2008, Williams announced a new 26-city tour, Weapons of Self-Destruction. The tour began at the end of September 2009 and concluded in New York on December 3, and was the subject of an HBO Special on December 8, 2009.

Television

After the revival and appearing in the cast of The Richard Pryor Show on NBC, Williams was cast by Garry Marshall as the alien Mork in a 1978 episode of the TV series , " My Favorite Orkan". Sought after as a last-minute cast replacement for a departing actor, Williams impressed the producer with his quirky sense of humor when he sat on his head when asked to take a seat for the audition. As Mork, Williams improvised much of his dialogue and physical comedy, speaking in a high, nasal voice, and he made the most of the script. The cast and crew, as well as TV network executives, were deeply impressed with his performance. As such, the executives moved quickly to get the performer on contract just four days later before competitors could make their own offers.

Mork's appearance proved so popular with viewers that it led to the spin-off television sitcom Mork & Mindy, which co-starred Pam Dawber, and ran from 1978 to 1982; the show was written to accommodate his extreme improvisations in dialogue and behavior. Although he portrayed the same character as in Happy Days, the series was set in the present in Boulder, Colorado, instead of the late 1950s in Milwaukee. Mork & Mindy at its peak had a weekly audience of sixty million and was credited with turning Williams into a "superstar". Among young people, the show was very popular because Williams became "a man and a child, buoyant, rubber-faced, an endless gusher of ideas," according to critic James Poniewozik.

Robin Williams (1979)

Mork became popular, featured on posters, coloring books, lunch-boxes, and other merchandise. Mork & Mindy was such a success in its first season that Williams appeared on the March 12, 1979, cover of magazine. The cover photo, taken by Michael Dressler in 1979, is said to have "[captured] his different sides: the funnyman mugging for the camera, and a sweet, more thoughtful pose that appears on a small TV he holds in his hands" according to Mary Forgione of the Los Angeles Times. This photo was installed in the National Portrait Gallery in the Smithsonian Institution shortly after his death to allow visitors to pay their respects. Williams also appeared on the cover of the August 23, 1979, issue of Rolling Stone, photographed by Richard Avedon.

Later appearances

Starting in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, Williams began to reach a wider audience with his stand-up comedy, including three HBO comedy specials, Off the Wall (1978), An Evening with Robin Williams (1983), and A Night at the Met (1986). In 1986, Williams co-hosted the 58th Academy Awards. Williams was also a regular guest on various talk shows, including The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and Late Night with David Letterman, on which he appeared 50 times.

Williams appeared with fellow comedian Billy Crystal in an unscripted cameo at the beginning of an episode of the third season of . His many television appearances included an episode of Whose Line Is It Anyway?, and he starred in an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. In 2006, Williams was the Surprise Guest at the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, and appeared on an episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition that aired on January 30. In 2010, he appeared in a sketch with Robert De Niro on Saturday Night Live, and in 2012, he guest-starred as himself in two FX series, and . In May 2013, CBS started a new series, The Crazy Ones, starring Williams, but the show was canceled after one season.

The first film role credited to Robin Williams is a small part in the 1977 low-budget comedy Can I Do It... 'Til I Need Glasses?. His first starring performance, however, is as the title character in (1980), in which Williams showcased the acting skills previously demonstrated in his television work; accordingly, the film's commercial disappointment was not blamed on his performance. He went on to star as the leading character in The World According to Garp (1982), which Williams considered "may have lacked a certain madness onscreen, but it had a great core". He continued with other smaller roles in less successful films, such as The Survivors (1983) and Club Paradise (1986), though he said these roles did not help advance his film career.

His first major break came from his starring role in director Barry Levinson's Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), which earned Williams a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. The film is set in 1965 during the Vietnam War, with Williams playing the role of Adrian Cronauer, a radio shock jock who keeps the troops entertained with comedy and sarcasm. Williams was allowed to play the role without a script, improvising most of his lines. Over the microphone, he created voice impressions of people, including Walter Cronkite, Gomer Pyle, Elvis Presley, Mr. Ed, and Richard Nixon. "We just let the cameras roll", said producer Mark Johnson, and Williams "managed to create something new for every single take".

Dramatic roles

Many of his subsequent roles were in comedies tinged with pathos, such as Mrs. Doubtfire and Patch Adams. Looking over most of his filmography, one writer was "struck by the breadth" and radical diversity of most of the roles Williams portrayed. In 1989, Williams played a private-school English teacher in Dead Poets Society, which included a final, emotional scene that some critics said "inspired a generation" and became a part of pop culture. Similarly, his performance as a therapist in Good Will Hunting (1997) deeply affected even some real therapists. In Awakenings (1990), Williams plays a doctor modeled after Oliver Sacks, who wrote the book on which the film is based. Sacks later said the way the actor's mind worked was a "form of genius". In 1991, he played an adult Peter Pan in the film , although he had said he would have to lose 25 pounds for the role. Terry Gilliam, who directed Williams in two of his films, The Fisher King (1991) and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), said in 1992 that Williams had the ability to "go from manic to mad to tender and vulnerable... [Williams had] the most unique mind on the planet. There's nobody like him out there."

Other dramatic performances by Williams include Moscow on the Hudson (1984), What Dreams May Come (1998), and Bicentennial Man (1999). During the early 2000s, Williams demonstrated a new rank of his versatility by playing darker roles than he had in the previous decades. In (2002), Williams portrayed a murderer on the run from a sleep-deprived Los Angeles police detective (played by Al Pacino) in rural Alaska. Also in 2002, in the psychological thriller One Hour Photo, Williams portrayed an emotionally disturbed photo development technician who becomes obsessed with a family for whom he has developed pictures for a long time. In the 2004 science fiction psychological thriller The Final Cut, Williams played a professional who specializes in editing the memories of unsavory people into uncritical memorials that are played at funerals. The Angriest Man in Brooklyn was Williams' last movie to be released while he was alive. In the movie, Williams played Henry Altmann, an angry, bitter man who tries to change his life after being told he has a terminal illness.

Williams' performances garnered him various accolades, including an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Good Will Hunting; as well as two previous Academy Award nominations, for Dead Poets Society, and as a troubled homeless man in The Fisher King, respectively. Among the actors who helped him during his acting career, he credited Robert De Niro, from whom he learned the power of silence and economy of dialogue when acting. From Dustin Hoffman, with whom he co-starred in Hook, he learned to take on totally different character types, and to transform his characters by extreme preparation. Mike Medavoy, producer of Hook, told its director, Steven Spielberg, that he intentionally teamed up Hoffman and Williams for the film because he knew they wanted to work together, and that Williams welcomed the opportunity of working with Spielberg. Having Woody Allen, who directed him and Billy Crystal in Deconstructing Harry (1997), helped Williams. Allen knew that Crystal and Williams had often worked together on stage.

Voice roles

Williams in Washington, D.C., 1996

While Williams voiced characters in several animated films, his voice role as the Genie in the animated musical (1992) was written for him. The film's directors said they had taken a risk by writing the role. At first, Williams refused the role since it was a Disney movie, and he did not want the studio profiting by selling merchandise based on the movie. He accepted the role with certain conditions: "I'm doing it basically because I want to be part of this animation tradition. I want something for my children. One deal is, I just don't want to sell anything-as in Burger King, as in toys, as in stuff." Williams improvised much of his dialogue, recording approximately 30 hours of tape, and impersonated dozens of celebrities, including Ed Sullivan, Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro, Groucho Marx, Rodney Dangerfield, William F. Buckley Jr., Peter Lorre, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Arsenio Hall. His role in Aladdin became one of his most recognized and best-loved, and the film was the highest-grossing of 1992; it won numerous awards, including a Special Golden Globe Award for Vocal Work in a Motion Picture for Williams. His performance paved the way for other animated films to incorporate actors with more star power. He was named a Disney Legend in 2009.

Due to Disney breaking an agreement with Williams regarding the use of the Genie in the advertising for Aladdin, Williams refused to sign on for the direct-to-video sequel The Return of Jafar (1994), where the Genie was instead voiced by Dan Castellaneta. When Jeffrey Katzenberg was replaced by Joe Roth as Walt Disney Studios chairman, Roth organized a public apology to Williams. Williams would, in turn, reprise the role in the second sequel, Aladdin and the King of Thieves (1996).

Williams continued to provide voices in other animated films, including FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992), (2005), the film franchise (2006-2011), and an uncredited vocal performance in Everyone's Hero (2006). He also voiced the holographic character Dr. Know in the live-action film A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001). He was the voice of The Timekeeper, a former attraction at the Walt Disney World Resort about a time-traveling robot who encounters Jules Verne and brings him to the future.

Later films

Years after the films, Janet Hirshenson revealed in an interview that Williams had expressed interest in portraying Rubeus Hagrid in the Harry Potter film series, but was rejected by director Chris Columbus due to the "British-only edict". In 2006, he starred in five movies, including Man of the Year, a political satire, and The Night Listener, a thriller about a radio show host who realizes that a child with whom he has developed a friendship may not exist. Four films starring Williams were released after his death in 2014: Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, A Merry Friggin' Christmas, , and Absolutely Anything.

Williams at the USO World Gala in Washington, D.C., on October1, 2008

Williams appeared opposite Steve Martin at Lincoln Center in an off- Broadway production of Waiting for Godot in 1988. He headlined his own one-man show, Robin Williams: Live on Broadway, which played at the Broadway theater in July 2002. He made his Broadway acting debut in Rajiv Joseph's Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, which opened at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on March 31, 2011.

Williams was the host of a talk show for Audible that aired in April 2000 and was only available on Audible's website.

Additional works

Discography

Reality ... What a Concept (Casablanca, 1979)

Throbbing Python of Love (Casablanca, 1983)

A Night at the Met (Columbia, 1986)

Live 2002 (Columbia, 2002)

Weapons of Self Destruction (Sony Music, 2009)

Personal life

Marriages and children

Williams with Marsha Garces at the 61st Academy Awards in 1989

Williams married his first wife, Valerie Velardi, in June 1978, following a live-in relationship with comedian Elayne Boosler. Velardi and Williams met in 1976 while he was working as a bartender at a tavern in San Francisco. Their son, Zachary Pym "Zak" Williams, was born in 1983. Velardi and Williams were divorced in 1988.

While it was reported that Williams began an affair with Zachary's nanny, Marsha Garces in 1986, Velardi stated in the 2018 documentary Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind that the relationship with Garces began after the two had separated. On April 30, 1989, Williams married Garces, who was six months pregnant with their child. They had two children, Zelda Rae Williams (born 1989) and Cody Alan Williams (born 1991). In March 2008, Garces filed for divorce from Williams, citing irreconcilable differences. Their divorce was finalized in 2010.

Williams married his third wife, graphic designer Susan Schneider, on October 22, 2011, in St. Helena, California. The two lived at their house in Sea Cliff, San Francisco, California.

Williams said, "My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings."

Other interests

In New York City, Williams was part of the West Side YMCA runners club and showed promising results with 34:21 minutes at a 10K run in Central Park in 1975.

His favorite books were the Foundation trilogy by Isaac Asimov, and his favorite book as a child was The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which he later shared with his children.

Williams was an enthusiast of both pen-and-paper role-playing games and video games. His daughter Zelda was named after the title character from The Legend of Zelda, a family favorite video game series, and he sometimes performed at consumer entertainment trade shows.

Williams was a big fan of anime and collecting figures. His daughter described him as a "figurine hoarder"; one of his figures was the character Deunan Knute from the anime film , which he was a fan of. He also liked the film Innocence Ghost in the Shell, and received a DVD copy of Paranoia Agent signed by its director, Satoshi Kon.

He also became a devoted cycling enthusiast, having taken up the sport partly as a substitute for drugs. Eventually, he accumulated a large bicycle collection and became a fan of professional road cycling, often traveling to racing events such as the Tour de France. In 2016, his children donated 87 of his bicycles in support of the Challenged Athletes Foundation and Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation.

Williams was raised and sometimes identified himself as an Episcopalian. In a comedy routine, he described his denomination as "I have that idea of Chicago Protestant, Episcopal-Catholic light: half the religion, half the guilt." He also described himself as an "honorary Jew", and on Israel's 60th Independence Day in 2008, he appeared in Times Square, along with several other celebrities, to wish Israel a happy birthday.

Philanthropy

In 1986, Williams teamed up with Whoopi Goldberg and Billy Crystal to found Comic Relief USA. This annual HBO television benefit devoted to the homeless raised $80million as of 2014. Bob Zmuda, creator of Comic Relief, explains that Williams felt blessed because he came from a wealthy home, but wanted to do something to help those less fortunate. Williams made benefit appearances to support literacy and women's rights, along with appearing at benefits for veterans. He was a regular on the USO circuit, where he traveled to 13 countries and performed to approximately 90,000 troops. After his death, the USO thanked him "for all he did for the men and women of our armed forces".

Williams and his second wife, Marsha, founded a philanthropic organization called the Windfall Foundation to raise money for many charities. In December 1999, he sang in French on the BBC-inspired music video of international celebrities doing a cover of The Rolling Stones single " It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)" for the charity Children's Promise.

In response to the 2010 Canterbury earthquake, he donated all proceeds of his Weapons of Self Destruction Christchurch performance to help rebuild the New Zealand city. Half the proceeds were donated to the Red Cross and half to the mayoral building fund. Williams performed with the USO for U.S. troops stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

For several years, Williams supported St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Williams had an addiction to cocaine. He was a casual friend of John Belushi, and the Saturday Night Live comic's death in 1982 from a drug overdose, which happened the morning after the two had partied together, along with the birth of his own son Zak, prompted him to quit drugs and alcohol: "Was it a wake-up call? Oh yeah, on a huge level. The grand jury helped, too." Williams later said of Belushi's death, "It sobered the shit out of me." Williams turned to exercise and cycling to help alleviate his depression shortly after Belushi's death; according to bicycle shop owner Tony Tom, Williams said, "cycling saved my life."

In 2003, Williams started drinking again while working on the film The Big White (2005) in Alaska. In 2006, he checked himself in to a substance-abuse rehabilitation center in Newberg, Oregon, saying he was an alcoholic. Years afterward, Williams acknowledged his failure to maintain sobriety, but said he never returned to using cocaine, declaring in a 2010 interview:

No. Cocaine-paranoid and impotent, what fun. There was no bit of me thinking, ooh, let's go back to that. Useless conversations until midnight, waking up at dawn feeling like a vampire on a day pass. No.

In mid-2014, Williams admitted himself into the Hazelden Foundation Addiction Treatment Center in Center City, Minnesota, for treatment for alcoholism.

Later health problems

In March 2009, he was hospitalized due to heart problems. He postponed his one-man tour for surgery to replace his aortic valve, repair his mitral valve, and correct his irregular heartbeat. The surgery was completed on March 13, 2009, at the Cleveland Clinic.

His publicist, Mara Buxbaum, commented that he had severe depression before his death. His wife, Susan Schneider, said that in the period before his death, Williams had been sober, but was diagnosed with early-stage Parkinson's disease, which was information he was "not yet ready to share publicly". An autopsy revealed that Williams had diffuse Lewy bodies (which had been misdiagnosed as Parkinson's) and this may have contributed to his depression.

In an essay published in the journal two years after his death, Schneider revealed that the pathology of Lewy body disease in Williams was described by several doctors as among the worst pathologies they had seen. She described the early symptoms of his disease as beginning in October 2013. Williams's initial condition included a sudden and prolonged spike in fear and anxiety, stress and insomnia, which worsened in severity to include memory loss, paranoia, and delusions. According to Schneider, "Robin was losing his mind and he was aware of it... He kept saying, 'I just want to reboot my brain.'"

Williams was found dead in his home in Paradise Cay, California, on August 11, 2014. The final autopsy report, released in November 2014, concluded that Williams' death was a suicide resulting from " asphyxia due to hanging". Neither alcohol nor illegal drugs were involved, and prescription drugs present in his body were at therapeutic levels. The report also noted that Williams had depression and anxiety. An examination of his brain tissue suggested Williams had "diffuse Lewy body dementia". Describing the disease as "the terrorist inside my husband's brain", his widow Susan Schneider Williams said that "however you look at it-the presence of Lewy bodies took his life", referring to his previous diagnosis of Parkinson's. She noted "how we as a culture don't have the vocabulary to discuss brain disease in the way we do about depression. Depression is a symptom of LBD and it's not about psychology - it's rooted in neurology. His brain was falling apart." Medical experts struggled to determine a cause, and eventually diagnosed him with Parkinson's disease.

The Lewy Body Dementia Association (LBDA) clarified the distinction between the term used in the autopsy report, "diffuse Lewy body dementia"-which is more commonly called "diffuse Lewy body disease" and refers to the underlying disease process-and the umbrella term " Lewy body dementia"-which encompasses both Parkinson's disease dementia (PD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). According to LBDA spokesperson Dennis Dickson, "The report confirms he experienced depression, anxiety, and paranoia, which may occur in either Parkinson's disease or dementia with Lewy bodies.... In early PD, Lewy bodies are generally limited in distribution, but in DLB, the Lewy bodies are spread widely throughout the brain, as was the case with Robin Williams." Ian G. McKeith, professor and researcher of Lewy body dementias, commented that Williams's symptoms and autopsy findings were explained by DLB.

Williams' body was cremated at Monte's Chapel of the Hills in San Anselmo, and his ashes were scattered over San Francisco Bay on August 21, 2014.

Aftermath and tributes

A fan-made tribute to Williams at the San Francisco Pacific Heights home used for Mrs. Doubtfire (August 2014)

Williams' death instantly became global news. The entertainment world, friends, and fans responded to his death through social and other media outlets. Schneider said: "I lost my husband and my best friend, while the world lost one of its most beloved artists and beautiful human beings. I am utterly heartbroken." His daughter Zelda Williams responded to his death by saying the "world is forever a little darker, less colorful and less full of laughter in his absence".

President Barack Obama released a statement upon Williams's death:

Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny, a president, a professor, a bangarang Peter Pan, and everything in between ... He arrived in our lives as an alien-but he ended up touching every element of the human spirit. He made us laugh. He made us cry. He gave his immeasurable talent freely and generously to those who needed it most-from our troops stationed abroad to the marginalized on our own streets.

Williams was scheduled to be the "Blackmail" special guest for the final night of Monty Python's ten-date stage shows in London one month before his death-with one of his friends, Monty Python's Eric Idle -but canceled, stating he was "suffering from severe depression" at the time. When the show was released on video, it was dedicated to Williams.

At the United Nations headquarters on August 12, 2014, Robin Williams was celebrated during the opening of the International Youth Day. In the presence of U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, Assistant Secretary General Thomas Gass paid tribute to Williams by standing on the pulpit of the ECOSOC Chamber and quoting Keating's lines from the 1989 film Dead Poets Society: "Dare to look at things in a different way!" Several fans similarly paid tribute to Williams on social media with photo and video reenactments of Dead Poets Society's " O Captain! My Captain!" scene.

Shortly after his death, Disney Channel, Disney XD, and Disney Junior all aired the original commercial-free over the course of a week, with a dedicated drawing of the genie at the end of each airing before the credits. In honor of his theater work, the lights of Broadway were darkened for the evening of August 14, 2014. That night, the cast of the musical honored Williams by having the audience join them in a sing-along of " Friend Like Me", an Oscar-nominated song originally sung by Williams in the 1992 film Aladdin.

Fans of Williams created makeshift memorials at his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and at locations from his television and film career, such as the bench in Boston's Public Garden featured in Good Will Hunting; the Pacific Heights, San Francisco home used in Mrs. Doubtfire; the sign for Parrish Shoes in Keene, New Hampshire, where parts of Jumanji were filmed; and the Boulder, Colorado home used for Mork & Mindy.

During the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards on August 25, 2014, close friend and fellow comedian Billy Crystal presented a tribute to Williams, referring to him as "the brightest star in our comedy galaxy". Afterwards, some of Williams's best comedy moments were shown, including his first ever The Tonight Show appearance, indicating his great life in making people laugh. Talk show hosts including David Letterman, Conan O'Brien, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel, and Jimmy Fallon paid tribute to Williams on their respective shows.

On September 9, 2014, PBS aired a one-hour special devoted to his career, and on September 27, 2014, dozens of leading stars and celebrities held a tribute in San Francisco to celebrate his life and career.

British heavy metal band Iron Maiden dedicated a song to Williams, titled "Tears of a Clown", on their 2015 album The Book of Souls. The song looks into his depression and suicide and how he attempted to hide his condition from the public.

A tunnel, painted with a rainbow, on Highway 101 north of the Golden Gate Bridge was officially named the " Robin Williams Tunnel" on February 29, 2016.

In 2017, Sharon Meadow in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, the home of the annual Comedy Day, was renamed Robin Williams Meadow.

In 2018, HBO produced a documentary about his life and career. Directed by Marina Zenovich, the film, Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind, was also screened at the Sundance Film Festival. That same year, a mural of Robin Williams was created on Market Street in San Francisco. Work on a book biography was begun by New York Times writer David Itzkoff in 2014, and was published in 2018, entitled simply Robin.

In August 2020, Vertical Entertainment released a trailer for a new documentary, Robin's Wish, exploring Williams's battle with Lewy body dementia. The film, directed by Tylor Norwood, was digitally released on September 1, 2020.

In a Netflix special released in May 2022, The Hall: Honoring the Greats of Stand-Up inducted Williams into the National Comedy Center in Jamestown, New York.

Influences

Williams credited comedians including Jonathan Winters, Peter Sellers, Nichols and May, and Lenny Bruce as influences, admiring their ability to attract a more intellectual audience with a higher level of wit. He also liked Jay Leno for his quickness in ad-libbing comedy routines, and Sid Caesar, whose acts he felt were "precious".

Jonathan Winters was his "idol" early in life; Williams, aged eight, first saw him on television and paid him homage in interviews throughout his career. Williams was inspired by Winters' ingenuity, realizing, he said, "that anything is possible, that anything is funny... He gave me the idea that it can be free-form, that you can go in and out of things pretty easily."

During an interview in London in 2002, Williams told Michael Parkinson that Peter Sellers was an important influence, especially his multi-character roles in Dr. Strangelove, stating, "It doesn't get better than that." British comedy actors Dudley Moore and Peter Cook were also among his influences, he told Parkinson.

Williams was also influenced by Richard Pryor's fearless ability to talk about his personal life on stage, with subjects including his use of drugs and alcohol, and Williams added those kinds of topics during his own performances. By bringing up such personal matters as a form of comedy, he told Parkinson, it was "cheaper than therapy" and gave him a way to release his pent-up energy and emotions.

You can't look at any modern comic and say, "That's the descendant of Robin Williams", because it's not possible to be a Robin Williams rip-off.... He raised the bar for what it's possible to do, and made an enormous amount of us want to be comedians.

Although Williams was first recognized as a stand-up comedian and television star, he later became known for acting in film roles of substance and serious drama. He was considered a "national treasure" by many in the entertainment industry and by the public.

His on-stage energy and improvisational skill became a model for a new generation of stand-up comedians. Many comedians valued the way he worked highly personal issues into his comedy routines, especially his honesty about drug and alcohol addiction, along with depression. According to media scholar Derek A. Burrill, because of the openness with which Williams spoke about his own life, "probably the most important contribution he made to pop culture, across so many different media, was as Robin Williams the person."

Williams created a signature free-form comedy persona so widely and uniquely identified that new comedians like Jim Carrey impersonated him, paving the way for the growing comedy scene which developed in San Francisco. Young comedians felt more liberated on stage by seeing his spontaneously diverse range: "one moment acting as a bright, mischievous child, then as a wise philosopher or alien from outer space". According to Judd Apatow, the eclectic performer's rapid-fire improvisational style was an inspiration as well as an influence for other comedians, but his talent was so extremely unusual no one else could possibly attempt to copy it.

His film performances often influenced other actors, both in and out of the film industry. Director Chris Columbus, who directed Williams in Mrs. Doubtfire, says watching him work "was a magical and special privilege. His performances were unlike anything any of us had ever seen, they came from some spiritual and otherworldly place." Looking over most of his filmography, Alyssa Rosenberg at The Washington Post was "struck by the breadth" and radical diversity of most of his roles, writing that "Williams helped us grow up."

Awards and nominations

Throughout the course of his career Williams won numerous awards, including an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Good Will Hunting (1997). He also won six Golden Globe Awards, including Best Actor-Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his roles in Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), The Fisher King (1991) and Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), along with the Special Golden Globe Award for Vocal Work in a Motion Picture for his role Genie in Aladdin (1992), and the Cecil B. DeMille award in 2005. He also received two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and five Grammy Awards.

References

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Sources

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Ambien - Deja Vu
Amoxicilline - 'Till I Collapse
Coke - I'm Shady
Crack - I'm Shady
Codeïne - Tim Westwood Freestyle
Hydrocodone - Tim Westwood Freestyle
Klonopin - 3 A.M., I'm On Everything
Lean - Right For Me
LSD - Calm Down
Methadone - Deja Vu, Going Through Changes
Marijuana - Right For Me
Mollie - Right For Me
Mushrooms - I'm Shady
NoDoz - Calm Down
Nurofen - Tim Westwood Freestyle
NyQuil - My Darling
Percocets - Going Through Changes
Purple Haze - I'm Shady
Seroquel - Same Song and Dance
Smack - I'm Shady
Valium - My Darling, My Mom
Vicodin - k--- You
Xanax - I'm Having a Relapse

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Demi Lovato is one of the many celebrities that struggle with cocaine addiction. Oftentimes, these individuals go to rehab centers for treatment. When these individuals are open about their experiences in addiction treatment centers, they may inspire others who have a dependence on drugs and alcohol to confront their problems and get help. In 2018, Lovato suffered an overdose. In 2021, Lovato released a new documentary detailing her relapse, overdose, and recommitment to recovery.

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Like other A-list celebrities, the It-girls had their own struggles to deal with. In 2004, Mary-Kate checked herself into rehab for an eating disorder and an alleged drug addiction. She suffered from kidney problems three years later but has been on a steady road to recovery for her mental and physical health.

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Kurt Cobain (1967-1994) was the lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter for the punk-rock band Nirvana. He is considered the spokesman for Gen X and greatly changed how alternative punk-rock was viewed and created.

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BOB Saget's sitcom Full House portrayed the Tanners as a perfect American family but behind the scenes, the cast didn't match their onscreen personas.

Over the years, the Full House "curse" has struck a number of the cast including drug addiction, arrests and battling eating disorders.

The latest tragedy has seen the star of the hit show, Bob Saget, die in a hotel room in Orlando just hours after finishing a stand-up show in Florida.

Here though are the details of what has happened to some of the other cast.

John Stamos

John Stamos' clean-cut image took a severe knock after he was arrested for DUI in June 2015.

He was later formally charged and pleaded no contest, receiving three years probation for his infringement of the law.

Before being convicted, Stamos was reportedly driving under the influence of party drug GHB at the time of his arrest and went into a rehab facility to get treatment for unknown medical conditions.

Reflecting on his turbulent year in an NBC interview with Matt Lauer, Stamos put his behaviour down to personal tragedy.

"I lost my mother last year, who was the love of my life - obviously a difficult time for me," he said. "I had this moment, I had some time off and I had a decision to make. So I took advantage of the time and I made a choice, and I'm just so grateful that I did."

Drug addiction

Jodie Sweetin made a shocking confession in a 2006 interview with Good Morning America when she admitted she had been addicted to methamphetamine.

"There is a certain sense of loss when a series ends," said Sweetin, revealing her habit began after Full House went off the air in 1995. "It is kind of hard to figure out who you are when you've lost your job at age 13, when that was basically how you identified yourself."

Sweetin revealed more detail about her drug use in her 2010 book, unSweetined, saying she snorted meth at the premiere of an Olsen twins movie in 2004.

"I was pulling off the deceit," she wrote, via Us Weekly. "It was hard for people to believe I was doing that much drugs. I look at photos from that event, and I didn't even look strung out!"
Read our Bob Saget live blog for the very latest news and updates...
Other drugs Sweetin dabbled in include ecstasy and cocaine.

Jodie Sweetin's marriages

As well as battling her drug problems Sweetin, now 39, has been married and divorced three times.

She filed for legal separation in 2013 after being married to Morty Coyle for just one year, with whom she had a daughter Beatrix.

Before that she was married to Cody Herpin between 2007 and 2010 and gave birth to their daughter Zoie.

Sweetin married her first husband Shaun Holguin in 2002 and their marriage lasted four years.

Sweetin's troubled relationship

After three failed marriages, trouble followed her in her relationship with her then-fiance Justin Hodak.

Sweetin was granted a restraining order against Hodak after he was arrested having "threatened to kill himself with a 9mm pistol if she made him leave," according to TMZ.

Being a convicted felon meant the guns Hodak had in his possession were held illegally.

Hodak though violated the terms of the restraining order just days later when he drove past Sweetin's house.

He was arrested again but released after he posted bail.

Sweetin then took to her Instagram account posting a photo of herself with her two daughters to let her fans know all was okay, writing: "Thank you so much to everyone who has reached out over the past two weeks. It's definitely been a roller coaster, but with amazing family, friends and fans, I'll be just fine! These two little loves are my everything and we will make it through!! Thank you for all the love!!"

The saga though took a further twist when police sources revealed to TMZ they had been called once again to Sweetin's home after Hodak showed up but was scared off by security guards.

Hodak though denied having been there.

Candace Cameron Bure's marriage views

Candace Cameron Bure came in for some flak in 2014 after she expressed her views in her marriage to hockey player Valeri Bure.

She described her role in her marriage as "submissive."

"I am not a passive person, but I chose to fall into a more submissive role in our relationship because I wanted to do everything in my power to make my marriage and family work," Bure wrote in her memoir, Balancing It All.

She was forced to defend her views after a hail of criticism, saying she was using the Bible's definition of submissive.

"It is meekness, it is not weakness," she told E! Online. "It is strength under control, it is bridled strength. And that's what I choose to have in my marriage."

Mary-Kate Olsen's possible connection to Heath Ledger's death

An unsolved mystery surrounds the death of Heath Ledger and the possible connection with Mary-Kate Olsen.

The actor died in 2008 at the age of 28 after overdosing on a number of prescription pills but it has never been established why his masseuse called Olsen's cell phone before calling the cops.

Investigators tried to get her to speak voluntarily, or else face being subpoenaed but she refused to talk without immunity.

In the end, the case was closed and what Olsen possibly knew wasn't questioned further.

Eating disorder

Gossip about Mary-Kate Olsen began to swirl in the early 2000s with rumours of drug abuse and an eating disorder flying about.

She went on to check herself into a rehab facility for a health-related issue, thought to be some kind of eating disorder.

The reports were never confirmed or denied.

She told Elle magazine in 2008 though: "Everybody is going to go through hard times. It's a part of life. I think the hardest part to get to is that point of asking for help or reaching out to other people and being honest with yourself."

Twitter feud

The Olsen twins Mary-Kate and Ashley shared the role of daughter Michelle in Full House but were missing in the sequel Fuller House.

When the news emerged they wouldn't be joining the show, speculation erupted as to why that was.

Asked for an answer, Mary-Kate claimed the twins had just found out about the project and were surprised nobody spoke to them about it before, including co-star John Stamos.

In response, Stamos took to Twitter to write: "I call bulls**t."

That led many to think a feud was brewing between the Olsen twins and the rest of the cast.

Stamos though was quick to try to patch things up.

"Had a sweet talk with M.K. today!" he tweeted the following day. "There are way more important things going in the wold [sic] today."

Later on though the Olsens admitted they didn't want to do the show because they hadn't acted in years.

Alanis Morissette song

For decades rumours continued to circulate that Alanis Morissette's song You Oughta Know was written about her former boyfriend Dave Coulier, who played Joey Gladstone in Full House.

The lyrics though seemed to be at odds with Coulier's character in the show: "And I'm here, to remind you / Of the mess you left when you went away".

Coulier later tried to bring an end to the speculation, telling BuzzFeed: "First of all, the guy in that song is a real a-hole, so I don't want to be that guy."

Lori Louglin

Lori Loughlin 's squeaky-clean image as the character Rebecca Donaldson-Katsopolis, aka Aunt Becky, was blown apart in March 2019.

Radar Online reported she had been indicted on felony charges of "conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud."

A warrant was issued for her arrest and flew from Canada to Los Angeles to face the charges.

According to court records seen by People, Loughlin was one of 50 people who allegedly participated in a multi-million-dollar college bribery scheme.

Other defendants included her husband Mossimo founder Mossimo Giannulli, and fellow actress Felicity Huffman.

They were accused of paying money to get their children admitted into colleges, such as Stanford, Yale, the University of Southern California, and Georgetown, with some help from SAT and ACT exam administrators and university coaches.

Loughlin initially pleaded not guilty but later changed it.

She was sentenced to two months in prison while her husband was sentenced to five months.

Currently, Loughlin is on a two-year supervised release since her December 2020 release, which will expire in December 2022.

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Over 90% of people who complete suicide suffer from depression, have a substance abuse disorder, or both. Cobain's addiction to prescription pills and heavy drugs was tied in with his bipolar disorder(his official diagnosis was in his adulthood, even though he once said he had been "depressed since (he) was nine.")

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At about 1am on the morning of December 8, 2019, rapper Jarad Anthony Higgins, better known by his stage name Juice Wrld, landed in a private plane at the Midway International Airport in Chicago. Police were waiting when the flight landed, on the suspicion of the plane containing weapons and narcotics. As police searched the plane, they found 41 bags of marijuana, 6 bottles of codeine cough syrup, a .40 caliber pistol, 2 9mm pistols, and a high-capacity ammunition magazine. The plane had 10 passengers, including Higgins’ girlfriend Ally Lotti. As police searched, Higgins had a seizure and went into cardiac arrest. Lotti told police that he “takes Percocet and has a drug problem,” according to the Chicago Tribune. Narcan (Naloxone) was administered to Higgins in an attempt to reverse the effects of a narcotic overdose. However, the cause of Juice Wrld’s death was not immediately known.

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Cobain wrote many songs for his band. One of my favourites is "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

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Nirvana's music, and thus Cobain's talent, is still well known today. People still make memes today!

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After his career began to blow up, Eminem started to struggle with drug addiction. “My addiction didn't start in my early days when I was coming up. We used to drink 40s on the porch and just battle rap each other. My drug usage started at the beginning of that first album,” he explained.

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In 2004 Thurman Thomas was caught with marijuana in a hotel  when the guests smelled it. He was arrested after that happened. Thurman took drugs and alcohol and drugs at the same time. He is off both of those now now

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Lovato is open regarding their struggles with addiction. In a 2013 report from The Huffington Post, Lovato spoke about  their  past problems with drugs and what led them to realize that they needed to seek help. “I couldn’t go 30 minutes to an hour without cocaine, and I would bring it on airplanes,” Lovato said. “I would smuggle it basically and just wait until everyone in first class would go to sleep, and I would do it right there.”

They also explained the moment when they  realized that it was time to focus on their recovery and confront their dependence on drugs and alcohol once and for all. “It was just nine in the morning and I was throwing up in the car and this was just to get on a plane to go back to L.A. to the sober living house that I was staying at … I had all the help in the world, but I didn’t want it. When I hit that moment I was like, it’s no longer fun when you’re doing it alone.”

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Lovato is open regarding her struggles with addiction. In a 2013 report from The Huffington Post, Lovato spoke about her past problems with drugs and what led her to realize that she needed to seek help. “I couldn’t go 30 minutes to an hour without cocaine, and I would bring it on airplanes,” Lovato said. “I would smuggle it basically and just wait until everyone in first class would go to sleep, and I would do it right there.”

She also explained the moment when she realized that it was time to focus on her recovery and confront her dependence on drugs and alcohol once and for all. “It was just nine in the morning and I was throwing up in the car and this was just to get on a plane to go back to L.A. to the sober living house that I was staying at … I had all the help in the world, but I didn’t want it. When I hit that moment I was like, it’s no longer fun when you’re doing it alone.”

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Taylor swift drinks because she has crazy ex-s she even has a song about her crazy ex-s.

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Britney had a prescription for a drug called amphetamines and overdosed it. Her breakups also lead to drinking problems. Britney was a continuous and frequent user of alcohol. She had mental health issues. Britney was on drugs for 5 years.

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Rapper Eminem is celebrating 12 years of sobriety with a promise to grow stronger in his fight against addiction, and says he is not afraid about the road ahead. Eminem took to social media on Monday to show off a chip he received after staying sober for 12 years following past battles with addiction. He posted a shot of a black coin with the inscription, "One day at a time... Unity Service Recovery".

"Clean dozen, in the books! I'm not afraid," the 47-year-old star wrote in the caption.

The Grammy-winning rapper, whose real name is Marshall Mathers, has used his work to express his relationship with various drugs. He stopped consuming narcotics including Vicodin, Ambien and Valium in 2008, a year after he had a methadone overdose.

In a past interview with Vibe , Eminem opened up about how bad things were due to his addiction. He estimated that he consumed "anywhere between 10 to 20" Vicodin daily in addition to massive doses of Valium, Ambien and other substances. "The numbers got so high. I don't even know what I was taking," he said.

Talking about overdose, he said that an "acquaintance" gave him medication he later learned was methadone, "which is used to wean heroin addicts off dope".

The 'Without me' artist admitted that his "doctor told (him that) the amount of methadone (he'd) taken was equivalent to shooting up four bags of heroin". "Had I known it was methadone, I probably wouldn't have taken it," he told the magazine.

In 2010, he released the album Recovery , which won the Grammy for Best Rap Album the following year. He has been very productive in recent years, with 2017's Revival , 2018's Kamikaze and his most recent work Music to Be Murdered By .

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His addiction was so bad he paid $100,000 to get treatment he did drugs because he did not know what to do with his life.

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Keith Urban was addicted to cocaine and alcohol. He said he partly fell into the addiction because when he moved from Australia to Tennessee he was put with someone who did cocaine.

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Due to Britney’s drug addiction she got divorced with her husband and lost custody of her kids to her husband. She has two sons.

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Baker chose Monroe as her surname because it was her mother's maiden name. In her ghost-written autobiography, Monroe said she was told that she was somehow related to President James Monroe, but no evidence has ever been found to support that. "Marilyn" came from a studio executive who thought she resembled Marilyn Miller, an actress who died at the age of 37 (Monroe was 36 when she passed away).When Gladys Baker, Marilyn's mother, told people Marilyn Monroe was her daughter, no one believed her. Gladys, once a film cutter at RKO, was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and was in and out of psychiatric care for years. Gladys took Norma Jean to a foster family when she was just two weeks old, which resulted in a series of orphanages and foster care homes for the rest of her childhood—so she didn’t have a close relationship with her mother. When Marilyn hit it big and Gladys told friends and co-workers that her daughter was the Marilyn Monroe, they dismissed it as one of her paranoid schizophrenic delusions.

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Lovato went on to find a sobriety which last for nearly six years. Then, in 2018, Demi Lovato overdosed on heroin laced with fentanyl.
Many of the details of Demi Lovato’s overdose were kept secret for years. It was only after the released of Demi Lovato’s new documentary series, “Dancing with the Devil,” did the singer’s drug abuse come into full view. Following A relapse in 2018, Demi Lovato became addicted to crack cocaine and heroin. Lovato overdosed in 2018 after taking drugs laced with fentanyl. They nearly died in a hospital after suffering several strokes and a heart attack connected with the overdose.

However, Lovato didn’t let her addiction win. Years after their overdose, Lovato had several career wins, including singing the national anthem at the NFL Championship game in 2020. Demi Lovato’s new documentary series seeks to shed light on the trying time in the singer’s life. It also shows that addiction is a chronic disease, one that requires a lifetime of support to overcome.

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a link of where i found the facts about her.

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a link of where i found the facts about her.

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30 Fascinating Facts About Marilyn Monroe

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Norma Jean Baker was born June 1, 1926, but the legacy of Marilyn Monroe lives on decades after her death.

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This is one of Elvis's many songs; in fact, its said to be one of his best. [We're not really allowed on Spotify, so it's just to show an example]

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John Osborne aka Ozzy Osborne admitted that his drug use stemmed from self medication as he suffers from dyslexia and adhd. Despising how he felt, he turned to LSD, cocaine, hash, alcohol, anti-depressants, and other substations to cope. Nowadays he is completely clean and living his best life drug and alcohol free.

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This is his guitar that he played in his band: Cream

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Eric Clapton drank cocaine, and alcohol. He still looks back and wonders how he survived his addiction, and the day he almost died.

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juice is known for his use of alcohol and different types of drugs including hennessy cocaine and meth

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Taylor swift released a song about her ex and released  it in 2012.

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He was addicted to cocaine, Xanax, Valium, NyQuil, beer, tobacco, and marijuana

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Lawrence Taylor NFL player for the Giants had a addiction and he got 30 days supention in 1988. LT Lawrence Taylor's nickname he retired football in 1993 and died some time after that. Lawrence Taylor would be 63 if he was still alive. The addiction that LT had where heart drugs

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Thurman Thomas is a famous running back for the buffalo bills(football team). He was drafted in 1988. He became a member of the hall of fame in 2007. He won MVP in 1991.

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Michael Jackson was a singer, songwriter, and dancer. He was born August 29 1958 Gary, Indiana, U.S. He died June 25 2009 Los Angeles, California. When he was a child he had been abused by his parents. Doing drugs to quell his pain, propofol and benzodiazepine are the drugs he had used. Michael was found died in his home in Los Angeles, California after used those drugs.

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but she was so depressed and used for many things that she started taking drugs that her doctor would give to her

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by Rashel Dube

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Allen Iverson is reportedly consumed with both drinking and gambling, two addictions that are tearing his life apart.

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His addiction became worse after he and his wife- Priscilla -divorced. Elvis had at least two almost deadly overdoses in the 1970s, and was often admitted into the hospital for overdosing, but also other underlying health problems. He also drank, which only worsened his health further.
Even though his official cause of death was a heart attack, doctors found drugs in his body at the time of his death.

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elvis was addicted to drugs I will tell you 5 of them; Codeine, morphine, Methaqualone, Diazepam, and N-Desmethyldiazepam.

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that was not beautiful.

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Many of Cobain's friends and family tried to help him. The month before his death by suicide, his friends and family staged an intervention to try to get through to him. They asked Steven Chatoff, the director of a behavioral health center for the treatment of addictions and psychological disorders, for advice.
“They called me to see what could be done,” says Chatoff. “He was using, up in Seattle. He was in full denial. It was very chaotic. And they were in fear for his life. It was a crisis.”

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https://americanaddictioncenters.org/blog/demi-lovato-cocaine-addiction

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