Robin Williams won an Academy Award, six Golden Globe Awards, five Grammy Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. In a listing of the “25 Funniest People of All Time,” he was ranked first. But his remarkable success and popularity could not insulate him from the pain of this broken world. He dealt with cocaine and alcohol addictions, heart problems, and severe depression before taking his life in 2014.
Now we know the rest of the story. A documentary, Robin’s Wish, captures the actor’s battle with Lewy body dementia (LBD), a type of brain disease that affected his thinking, memory, and movement control. This is the second-most common type of progressive dementia after Alzheimer’s disease. However, Williams was misdiagnosed by doctors; it wasn’t until years after his death that his family discovered the truth of his internal battle.
His widow, Susan Schneider Williams, called LBD “the terrorist inside my husband’s brain.”
“One brief shining moment that was known as Camelot”
In other celebrity news, a Kennedy lost an election in Massachusetts for the first time ever when Sen. Ed Markey defeated Rep. Joe Kennedy III in their Democratic primary.
John F. Kennedy was elected to the House of Representatives from Massachusetts in 1946, serving six years before his election to the Senate in 1952 and 1958 and his election as president in 1960. His brother, Robert, was elected to the Senate from New York. Ted Kennedy was elected to John’s seat in the Senate, serving until his death in 2009. Joseph P. Kennedy II (Robert’s son) and Patrick J. Kennedy (Ted’s son), both served in the US House of Representatives, as did Joseph P. Kennedy III (Robert’s grandson) before losing his race against Sen. Markey.
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