Robin Williams Tragic Last Days Before Death: Friends Said He Battled This 'Monster' Prior to Demise

Robin Williams' final days showed how much he struggled before his death.

The actor-comedian, who also established a singing career by performing tracks for films and TV shows, died on August 11, 2014, at his Tiburon, Calif., home. He was 63 at the time of his death, which was ruled a suicide.

Robin Williams Suffered Drug Addiction Before Death

Williams' friends recently appeared in a new interview where they revealed his final days while fighting the "monster" drug addiction.

They told "Vice TV's Dark Side of Comedy" that he was on cocaine and became dependent on it before his demise.

"He said, 'Know anyone with any blow? I have to go on, and I can't go on without any blow,'" Allan Stephan said. "And I sat down, and I said, 'I'm going to help you.' He said, 'Do you have blow on you?' I said, 'No, are you out of your f------ mind? You're Robin Williams.'"

Make Binder mirrored the statement as he recalled the time the "Patch Adams" star became reckless in taking a huge amount of drugs, including a gram of coke Williams consumed when they were at the Flippers Discotheque in Hollywood.

He then branded the late star a "monster" when it comes to drugs.

Meanwhile, director Howard Storm noted in Dave Itzkoff's biography "Robin" that Williams relied on drugs until it affected his work.

"He hadn't slept all night. He was snorting coke, and if you snort coke, in order to come down, you drink booze. He was out all night and screwing everybody in town," he went on.

Williams notably sang "Friend Like Me" in the 1992 animated feature film "Aladdin," where he also played the role of Genie. Will Smith, who portrayed the role in the live-action version in 2019, also performed the track.

The Marin County officials revealed months after his death that he died by asphyxia and hanging. His toxicology results also showed that he had caffeine, antidepressants and levodopa - a drug used to treat Parkinson's - in his system.

He battled severe depression for years before he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. His autopsy also confirmed that he had Lewy body dementia, which affected his cognitive performance and caused paranoia, confusion, constipation and insomnia.

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