Robin Williams was found hanged after telling friends he had “serious money troubles” and had sought treatment for depression in the weeks before his death, it was reported.
The 63-year-old actor, who was once considered to be worth £75 million, had complained of losing a large amount of his fortune in alimony（赡养费）payments to his two former wives, and had been trying to sell his 600-acre farm in California to raise much-needed funds.
Police said Williams had been found dead in a bedroom at his home, and had cut his left wrist several times with a penknife before dying of asphyxiation（窒息）.
According to a family friend quoted by the US website Radar Online: “All he could talk about were serious money troubles…Robin was known for being so generous to his friends and family during the height of his success, and would help anyone out that needed it. There was also frustration that Robin expressed at having to take television and movie roles he didn’t want to take, but had to for the pay cheque.”
A friend of 30 years who saw him at dinner this week said “something did not seem right”, though he added that the actor was known to suffer from mood swings.
Stellan Skarsgard, who appeared with him in the Oscar-winning Good Will Hunting in 1997, said: “People take their own lives for many different reasons, and it's not unusual among comedians that the comedy is a way of keeping away from the darkness. That may have been the case with him."
Williams’s close friend and fellow comic actor Chevy Chase said: “Robin and I were great friends, suffering from the same little-known disease: depression. I never could have expected this ending to his life…I cannot believe this. I am overcome with sorrow.”
In an interview in 2010 the actor said he had only thought seriously about suicide once, but told himself: "Have you noticed that things are pretty good even though you're not working right now?"
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