Everyone I'm Rebecca and welcome to Watch Mojo today were recounting the tragic life of Robin Williams.

That means we're looking at the inspiring but also heartbreaking life of one of America's favorite funny men.

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Robin Williams was one of the finest entertainers of our time, we'd say Funniest comedian of our time, but really, he did so much more than make us laugh.

Yes, his primary creative output was comedy, and he excelled at it.

Ever impressive, but never whether he was raucously performing standup in clubs or being relentlessly wacky on the big screen.

Robin was a master of his craft, but he was also an adept dramatic actor, having been nominated for four Academy Awards throughout his acting career and winning one for Good Will hunting.

Perhaps he was so good at drama because he drew from an internal source.

You all know the joke about Pagliacci the clown.

A man feels depressed and goes to see a doctor who tells him to watch Pagliacci the clown to cheer himself up, but it turns out his patient is Pagliacci.

Just a bit of coal.

It's a perfect summation of how people can use comedy to mask their inner turmoil, and Robin Williams was no different.

He suffered bouts of depression, and he led a troubling and tragic life that was often hidden beneath his bizarre and wild sense of humor.

I do a great impression of a hot dog.

Things started out well for Robin, who grew up both affluent and popular.

His father was a senior executive at Ford, and the family lived in a 40 room farmhouse in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

They were even rich enough to have a maid.

Robin attended the private Detroit Country Day School and eventually became class president.

While it's selling in school and partaking in various extracurriculars, I do voices.

What do you mean you do?

Voices Ben.

Many of his old classmates also remember him as being a very funny and friendly person.

In short, Robin was well off personable, charismatic, funny, smart and popular.

I think you have something inside of you that is worth a great deal.

Unfortunately, things weren't as good at home as they appeared from afar.

His parents were busy people, and Robin didn't get to see the much he was often left home alone with the family made being his only steady companions.

Despite receiving a full scholarship to Juilliard, Robin dropped out in his junior year and pursued standup comedy in the San Francisco Bay area.

Of course, being Robin Williams, one of the funniest men ever, he quickly found success.

My God, look home, severance go back again.

He graduated to performing in various clubs around Los Angeles in the mid seventies before winning the Grammy Award for best comedy album in 1979 for his live show reality.

What a Concept It would be his first of four Grammys.

He also found incredible success on TV by playing the alien Mork on the ABC sitcom Mork and Mindy, which aired from 1978 to 1982.

By all accounts, his professional career was going perfectly.

I think one thing ran rampant in the comedy scene in the late 19 seventies, and we're not talking about laughter.

It was drugs, and Williams soon formed an addiction to cocaine and alcohol.

One of his friends, Bob Davis, remembers being shocked to see Robin so ingrained in the drug culture.

There was once a documentary asked approving Indian chief that said, Chief, Let's go cane look right in the camera, said.

Cocaine is a little gift to the white man for what you did to us.

On one occasion, Davis said, he watched as a fan holding cocaine on a spoon walked up to Robin, who snorted it without question.

Robin also began drinking to come down from the manic Coke IES Mork and Mindy director Howard Storm recalls the robin would stay out all night taking drugs, drinking and quote screwing everybody in town, and would be quote a wreck on set the next day.

Even your dog, looking like things, came to a head in 1982 when Williams close friend John Belushi died of an overdose after mixing heroin and cocaine, a dangerous concoction known as a speedball, Williams was left particularly devastated by his death, not only because John was his friend, but also because Robin had party with him earlier that morning.

His death had a profound effect on Robin.

With his first child on the way, he decided to quit drugs and alcohol secretary A here.

I had to stop drinking alcohol because I used to wake up Newton Hood of my car keys in my head on.

He wasn't the only one, Williams later told People magazine quote.

John's death scared a whole group of show business people.

It caused a big exodus from drugs.

You know, you'd be better off shoving that cigarette up here as it would be healthier for you.

This transitional period, however, also caused Williams to spiral into himself and become depressed.

Feeding an outlet, he took up cycling and quickly formed a bond with the bike shop owner Tony Tom.

Tony claims that Williams once told him Quote, biking is a whole lot better for you than cocaine, And he reportedly credited biking for quote, saving his life.

Yeah, big time, huh?

Just like that.

What do you bench to 85?

What do you bench you paint that?

It's often been suspected that Robin suffered from clinical depression and or manic depression, also known as bipolar disorder.

However, he told NPR's Terry Gross in 2006 that he had never been clinically diagnosed with either.

What we can say with certainty, though, is that Robin continuously struggled with addiction.

Another drug?

I don't tell you it's a drug to class for narcotic alcohol.

After 20 years of sobriety, Robin fell off the wagon in 2003 and returned to alcohol.

He was filming a movie in Alaska called the Big White and was feeling quote alone and afraid.

And I'll close especially dangerous for people like myself.

Alcoholics or you could say ethanol challenged whatever you want to come.

To allay his fears, he returned to drinking.

He told Parade that it started with quote, just a taste, but it escalated so quickly.

Within a week I was buying so many bottles.

I sounded like a wind shine walking down the street.

And there's a voice that tells alcoholics weaken, drink.

It's the same voice you hear.

If you could go up to the top of a very large building and you look over the side, there's a little voice.

It goes jump.

After some tough love from his family, Robin admitted himself into rehab in 2006.

You are an alcoholic, but it wasn't enough.

He later returned to alcohol and went to rehab yet again in 2014 checking himself into Minnesota's Hazelden Foundation addiction treatment.

It's possible that Williams returned alcohol near the end of his life because he was suffering from depression and that this depression was linked to his failing body.

Robin began suffering from a horrible case of Lewy body dementia in late 2013 though it wasn't identified as such until after his death.

Excessive happiness actually says You're excessively happy.

What does that mean?

It's not good.

Gotta fight.

Robin's widow, Susan Schneider, wrote a brilliant and horribly tragic piece called The Terrorist Inside My Husband's Brain that offers a lot of insight into his heartbreaking final days.

Early indications of the disease began in October 2013 around the time of Robin and Susan.

Second wedding anniversary What year is it?

It was brand new.

No.

What year is it?

Robin began suffering from a host of seemingly unrelated problems, including insomnia, heartburn, gut discomfort, quote, a slight tremor in his left hand and a quote alarming rise in fear and anxiety.

Most of these symptoms were waved away or, in the case of the hand tremor attributed to a prior shoulder injury.

I'm screwed on it, But then things got worse.

By winter, Robin began suffering from or extreme and worrying symptoms like paranoia, delusions in memory loss.

While filming night at the museum three.

Robin had immense difficulty remembering his lines, and his memory loss, combined with his rising anxiety, struck a lot of fear into the struggling actor.

This is it.

Indeed, he began having quote unfounded fears and suffered from a profound case of insecurity.

Nothing, Susan said, could calm him down or help him see clearly, it's time for your next adventure.

I have no idea what I'm going to tomorrow.

Exciting.

According to Susan, Robin was fully aware that quote he was losing his mind, but he put on a brave face and kept the worst symptoms to himself.

But near the end, there was simply no hiding the severity of his case.

Robin was walking with quote, a slow, shuffling gait.

He had trouble speaking and often forgot words.

His left hand wouldn't stop trembling.

He could no longer judge distance and depth, and sometimes he even had trouble moving, a condition Susan calls quote of frozen stance.

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Robin had made up his mind on the night of Sunday, August 10th Robin said goodnight to Susan.

It was the last thing he ever said to her.

He committed suicide on August 11th.

Ah, final declared of statement against the disease that have been plaguing his brain for the last 10 months.

Death is not the enemy gentleman.

We're gonna fight a disease.

Let's fight one of most terrible diseases of all indifference.

Susan was lost.

The world was shocked.

Everyone grieved.

The world had lost one of the most beloved and talented men and show business, and it came as a complete surprise.

Robin was good at hiding his problems and keeping his issues to himself, and he simply hadn't been ready to share his tragic battle with the world.

You treat a disease, you win, you lose.

You treat a person, I guarantee you you win, no matter what the outcome.

Robin is survived by his widow and three Children Zach, Zelda and Cody quoting married on July 21st 2019 it would have been Robin 68th birthday.

Honestly, I've never been Maur shocked or upset about a celebrity death than I was for Robin Williams.

But let's not talk about that.

Let's use the comments to talk about our favorite Robin Williams moments for movies.

For me, it's gonna be Aladdin, Mrs Doubtfire and the Bird Cage.

So come talk to me in the comments or on my YouTube channel or on Twitter or Instagram at Rebecca Britain.

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