Drugs and alcohol became a need he couldn’t satisfy, not to elevate his zaniness on stage but for opposite reasons. “Cocaine was a place to hide,” Williams told People in 1988. “Most people get hyper on coke. It slowed me down.” When his first wife, Valerie, was pregnant with ...
Likewise, when word spread about his struggles with drugs in the early 1980s, Williams responded with a joke that for a time became a catchphrase for his generation's recreational drug use: "Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making too much money." Word that he had killed hi...
Williams wins Carson as they compare notes about cocaine and booze and chat about being a geek in high school, but Williams slips down the rabbit hole when he confesses that even his family expects him to be his TV personality.“‘Mom…?’‘Mork, is that you?'” An Evening with Robin ...
a disease which would haunt him for the rest of his life. “Cocaine is God’s way of telling you that you have too much money!” jokes Williams to David Letterman (whose whisker-filled visage highlights one of the talking heads segments). While filming his TV show and moonlighting at the...
Robin Williams. Actor: Mrs. Doubtfire. Robin McLaurin Williams was born on Saturday, July 21st, 1951, in Chicago, Illinois, a great-great-grandson of Mississippi Governor and Senator, Anselm J. McLaurin. His mother, Laurie McLaurin (née Janin), was a fo
“We were talking briefly about cocaine...yeah. Anything that makes you paranoid and impotent, give me more of that!” — Robin Williams Cite This Quote Source:A Night at the Met(1986) “They call it freebasing. It's not free, it costs you your house! It should be called home basi...
On August 11th Mr Williams was found dead. He had hanged himself in his home in Tiburon, near San Francisco. Sometimes the cleverest, funniest people are the most unhappy. Mr Williams had battled cocaine and alcohol addiction in the past, but that was in private. In public he was insouci...
In the wake of his Aug. 11 suicide, Robin Williams is getting a high-profile posthumous biography by The New York Times Writer Dave Itzkoff.
34. Cocaine is God’s way of saying you’re making too much money. Williams became sober after battling alcohol and drug addiction in the 1980s. However, he went to rehab again in 2006 when he started drinking. Why Robin Williams Took His Own Life ...
"Cocaine — paranoid and impotent, what fun." But, behind that, he admitted his addiction was like anyone else's: an attempt to quell the dread. AdvertisementADVERTISEMENT Robin Williams didn't turn his story into redemption. He was never better, perfect, cured, and on top of the world....