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Robin Williams Drug Problems: Alcohol, Cocaine Addiction Punctuated Brilliant Actor’s Early Career
on August 11 2014 9:38 PM
Not long after he rose to fame as the manic Mork from Ork on the 1970s sitcom “Mork & Mindy,” Robin Williams developed a reputation for drug abuse, alcoholism and a hard-partying lifestyle. And in the live-fast, die-young 1970s, it was well-deserved.
The actor’s life came to a tragic end Monday in what authorities are calling a possible suicide, and investigation into the cause of Williams’ death is expected Tuesday. A brilliant actor with a gift for lightning-fast improvisation, Williams spent the better part of four decades making people laugh, but behind the scenes was a lifelong struggle with addiction and a see-saw of sobriety and relapse.
1980s
Williams battled alcoholism and cocaine abuse in the early 1980s, at the height of his first taste with celebrity. He was close friends with John Belushi, and in fact he had been partying with the legendary “Saturday Night Live” comedian at L.A.’s Chateau Marmont hotel not long before Belushi overdosed on a lethal combination of heroin and cocaine in 1982. Belushi’s death was a wakeup call for Williams, who quit cold turkey shortly after the incident and remained sober for two decades.
2000s
In a 2006 interview with ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Williams admitted to falling off the wagon. Months earlier he had checked into rehab, where he was treated for alcohol addiction. He told ABC’s Diane Sawyer that falling back into abuse was “very gradual,” and that addiction is a sickness that knows no statute of limitations. “It waits,” he said. “It lays in wait for the time when you think, ‘It’s fine now, I’m OK.’ Then, the next thing you know, it’s not OK.” …
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