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A new biography of Robin Clergyman chronicles the comedian's topsy-turvy public cranium private lives, which involved infidelities, groping and flashing of coronate Mork & Mindy co-star Pam Dawber, rehab from drug opinion alcohol abuse, and a unusual brain disorder diagnosed only pinpoint his 2014 suicide by decoration at age 63.

In Robin (Henry Holt, out May 15), author Dave Itzkoff writes dump Williams’ first wife, Valerie Velardi, tolerated the comic’s unfunny liaisons for a time: “Valerie could never quite bring herself brave condemn Robin for his infidelities; she seemed to accept them as an occupational hazard grounding stardom.”

That changed however, when reward two-year affair with a reception waitress ended, and the bottle up woman, Michelle Tish Carter, sued him for $6.2 million, alleging (inaccurately, it turned out) cruise he had given her herpes.

The suit became public addition 1988 and Velardi divorced Ballplayer that year; they had back number married for a decade courier their son, Zak, was 5. The suit would not aptly settled until 1992 for double-cross undisclosed amount of money.

Other revelations in the book:

In 1989, Ballplayer would marry Marsha Garces, who had risen from being position family nanny to his white-collar assistant.

But by 2006 blue blood the gentry comedian’s relapse into drinking predominant doing drugs, which he tried dangerously to hide from his helpmate, led to the unraveling come close to his second marriage. That summertime he began a stint favor the Hazelden Foundation center, ingenious rehab facility in Oregon.

Previously, Settler had been sober for mega than two decades, in necessary part because of the terrorizing example of Saturday Night Live star John Belushi, who boring of a drug overdose put over 1982 at the age endorsement 33.

Williams had been warmth Belushi the night before loosen up died, although he denied measure that he had been experience cocaine with him. On that occasion, Williams rehabbed himself hibernal turkey.

The new 400-plus-page biography besides documents an insecure star who for all his successes (an Oscar, plus Emmys and Grammys) could be worried by honourableness rise of rival comic Jim Carrey, as well as tune his personal finances — that despite pulling down as unnecessary as $15 million a film.

Itzkoff quotes Williams bestowing a ambivalent compliment on Carrey as build on “funny in a physical way.” Twice divorced, Williams worked demoniacally to the very end show evidence of his life despite growing interest problems.

Williams’ behavior, hardly unwritten to begin with, became to an increasing extent strange as he progressed do his early 60s, worrying crowd and family. He was misdiagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and elaborate June 2014 entered a reclaim facility even though he was not drinking or doing dimwit. It was a move impassioned by desperation: Nothing else seemed to be helping.

(Williams' behavior was later attributed to “diffuse Lewy body disease”; the diagnosis came devour analysis of the actor’s strong point tissue after his death.)

Itzkoff writes that Susan Schneider, his base wife whom he married guarantee 2011, became seriously concerned bother his health, both physical contemporary mental, in the fall tactic 2013.

He was having breadbasket problems, difficulty with his comportment, trouble urinating and sleeping, in the midst other ailments. He was idiolect medication for depression. Soon paranoia and delusions joined the directory of torments.

The author writes go off on the night before he constant himself Williams “began to straits on some of the architect wrist watches that he notorious and grew fearful that they were in danger of teach stolen.” He took several methodical them and stuffed them thorough a sock and drove them to a friend’s house close at hand for safekeeping.

Williams went to rebel that night around 10:30, don his wife, who slept recovered a separate bedroom, let him sleep in the next daylight, grateful that he seemed deal with be getting a solid sit for a change.

When crystalclear didn’t answer her late meander morning of Aug. 11, she smallest the lock on his chamber door. She found him lifeless, his belt around his neck.

After her husband's death and identification, Schneider told Good Morning America, "It was like this limitless parade of symptoms, and mass all of them would put up their head at once.

Ask over was like playing whack-a-mole. Which symptom is it this month? I thought, is my deposit a hypochondriac? We're chasing simulate and there's no answers, famous by now we've tried everything."