How Robin Williams was being torn apart and couldn't fight back (diffuse Lewy body dementia)

[steve2470]

https://nypost.com/2018/05/05/how-an-incurable-brain-disease-haunted-robin-williams-final-days/

(yea it's the NY Post but this is non-political)

Robin Williams struggled to remember his lines.

This was unusual for the hyperverbal, Oscar-winning actor, and it hit him hard in Vancouver in 2014 during the filming of “Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb,” the third movie in the successful family franchise.

“He was sobbing in my arms at the end of every day. It was horrible. Horrible,” makeup artist Cheri Minns recalled. “I said to his people, ‘I’m a makeup artist. I don’t have the capacity to deal with what’s happening to him.’ ”

Minns suggested to Robin that he return to stand-up to get out of his rut and reclaim some of his lost confidence. But Robin refused.



The diffuse Lewy body dementia diagnosis is much further down in the article.

[hlthe2b]

1. Hearing the desscriptions of what Robin went through from Billy Crystal was just so

tough. If you've seen Alzheimers or similar dementias you know, but it is just so