Glenn Close has claimed Robin Williams “would still be alive” if his buddy Christopher Reeve hadn’t died in 2004.
Williams, who took his personal life in 2014, was shut buddies with the Superman actor, who handed away 9 years after a horse-riding accident left him paralysed in 1995.
In a brand new documentary, titled Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, many areas of Reeve’s life are explored, together with his friendship with the comic and actor.
Speaking within the movie, Fatal Attraction star Close says: “I always felt that if Chris was still around, Robin would still be alive.”
Williams and Reeve had been shut for many years after rooming collectively at The Juilliard School in New York in 1973.
At the time of his loss of life, Williams was affected by Lewy physique dementia, an incurable mind illness which had been misdiagnosed as Parkinson’s illness.
Many of the Good Will Hunting star’s buddies and colleagues recalled that Williams’ deteriorating well being led to an intense melancholy that left him “sobbing” and believing he now not knew “how to be funny”.
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This will not be the primary time Close has mentioned she thought Williams would nonetheless be alive if Reeve was too.
ET News reported in 2017 that, whereas talking on the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation’s annual charity gala, Close described Williams and Reeves’s “connection” as “the stuff of legend”.
“It not only endured, but became a life-giving force sustaining them both,” she mentioned.
Recalling how, throughout her time filming The World According to Garp with Williams in 1982, Reeves “would literally swoop in, piloting his own plane, scoop Robin up, and away they would fly for the weekend”.
“On Sunday, late afternoon, Chris would swoop back in and deliver Robin back – I have to say a little worse for wear.”
She mentioned the pair have been “on top of the world” once they hung out collectively, including: “They were living the kind of fast and crazy life that our business can hand to you if you become a wildly famous phenomenon, practically overnight.”
“I am convinced that if Chris were still with us, Robin would be too.”
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