Robin Williams’ widow, Susan Schnedier, has been breaking her silence on her late husband’s suicide this week, more than a year after his death. She has revealed she understands why he did it.
In an interview on Good Morning America she said she doesn’t blame him "one bit” for taking his own life, revealing he only had a few years left to live. In a new interview with People, Schneider said a doctor told him it was time to move into an inpatient treatment facility for his Parkinson’s disease.
She described a “pivotal moment” when his psychiatrist told him, “'Now, Robin...' – and mind you this is a few weeks before he left [died] – 'It is no longer an option to have inpatient neurocognitive evaluation.’”
Schneider added the doctor told him it was “mandatory” for him to live in a facility.
“By the time he made it to inpatient we would have gotten around to the fact that he has Lewy Body Dementia," she continued. "But what I know now is that if Robin was lucky he would have made it three years. And he might have never left a facility. It was very bad."
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