, the comedian’s widow, Susan Schneider Williams, recalls one of the first times that she could tell something was seriously off. Robin called her from Vancouver, where he was shooting the third “Night at the Museum” film, and he couldn’t calm himself down. He was having a panic attack over the fact that he couldn’t remember his lines; at times, he was having trouble remembering even one line of dialogue.
“Robin’s Wish,” which deals with the slow creep of Williams’ deterioration during the final months of his life, is a documentary that’s honest and scary, wrenching and moving. It’s a portrait of the artist as a brave, joyous, wounded soul. It’s also a diary of Robin Williams slowly losing his mind. It was only during an autopsy that doctors learned he’d been suffering from Lewy body dementia, a degenerative condition with many similarities to Alzheimer’s, though it takes hold more quickly. In the film, Dr. Bruce Miller, Director of the Memory and Aging Center at UCSF, explains how Lewy body dementia works, using phrases like “the misfolding of proteins with neurons.
They lived in Marin, north of San Francisco, because Williams wanted a real neighborhood . He was good friends with a number of his neighbors, who are interviewed here. He biked and ran with them; he was the guy next door. But one of those neighbors tells a story about how Robin, in the last months, showed up at his house, asking if he could look at the boats through the back window, and he just stared out that window, frozen, for 10 minutes.
RIP ROBIN WILLIAMS 👑💔😭🌟 you will always be remembered and loved
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