Photos: In His Final Days, Robin Williams Was 'Sort Of Distant'

Robin Williams’ final days are being pieced together, and as more details come to light, most of his final interactions with friends and family reveal to be rather routine.

On August 5, six days before his death, Williams and his wife, Susan Schneider, enjoyed a quiet dinner at Joe's Taco Lounge in Mill Valley, California, followed by a comedy show at Throckmorton theatre. Director of marketing at Throckmorton, Julian Kaelon, also attended the show that night and failed to notice anything out of the ordinary with the comedian. “He looked fine, just like he always does," she told People magazine. "He was the same bubbly, fun, kind-hearted guy he always was. He came up to the concession and bought his regular Coca-Cola. He always insisted on paying and would never allow us to give him anything for free."

Her final thoughts on Williams reveal a supportive comedian who nurtured the talents of his peers and offered up wise words whenever he could.

"He would ride his bike Tuesday nights to the theatre, and he loved going into the small green room and imparting words of wisdom about the art of comedy, or the business," Kaelon added. "He encouraged the next generation of comedians to find their voice. He told them a lot of comedians don't get out of the standard joke box, but they needed to grow and not be complacent."

A neighbour of the Williams family tells another story. "He was moving really slow, and his wife was assisting him," said one resident who saw the actor out-and-about in the San Francisco Bay neighbourhood of Tiburon.

The personal accounts of close friends fall in line with today’s announcement about Williams' recent health problems. “Robin's sobriety was intact and he was brave as he struggled with his own battles of depression, anxiety as well as early stages of Parkinson's Disease, which he was not yet ready to share publicly,” Schneider wrote in a statement on Thursday.

Johnny Steele, who would cycle with Williams regularly, told The San Francisco Chronicle that the actor seemed much more fragile lately. "[I] worried that he was not well ... I had started to get concerned that he had some physical malady, not telling anyone," Steele told the newspaper. “[He was] sort of distant."

As more accounts of Williams’ last moments are disclosed, suicide and mental health expert explained to People that it is customary for sufferers of depression to show no public signs of distress.

"Unfortunately, when it comes to disorders like depression, it's a silent scourge. It's such a quiet disorder," says Dr. Jay P. Singh. "There is a good amount of research as well as anecdotal evidence that shows right before a suicide occurs is the time period when individuals judged by mental health professionals are seen as being at low risk of suicide.”
These pics below were taken a day before he died. #RIPRobinWilliams

This is one of the last pictures of Robin Williams taken at a San Francisco art gallery, just a day before his death. His brunette wife, Susan, is pictured in the foreground

The 62-year-old actor, who had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, appears frail and stooped in his all-black outfit.

Robin Williams, pictured days before his death with monkey Crystal, was thin and drawn in his last weeks, neighbors said.

They had much in common: Michael J. Fox and Robin Williams pose backstage at the hit play Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo in 2011. It was revealed on Thursday that Williams had Parkinson's disease, the same condition suffered by Fox.

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