--- description: His health had declined in the weeks before his suicide, his widow says title: Robin Williams Was to Move to Treatment Center Before Death image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf3e30ee1b06de881/69886f860a4a2249559c6e32/robin-williams1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [celebrities](/tag/celebrities/) ## celebrities Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Robin Williams' Widow: Actor Was to Move to Treatment Center Before Death  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 4, 2015 2:45 PM CUT  Robin Williams at Lincoln Center in New York City in 2013. Robin Williams at Lincoln Center in New York City in 2013.Jennifer Graylock—Getty Images  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 4, 2015 2:45 PM CUT Robin Williams’ widow says the actor and comedian was [weeks away from moving](http://www.people.com/article/robin-williams-committed-facility-suicide-susan-williams?xid=socialflow%5Ftwitter%5Fpeoplemag "undefined") to an inpatient treatment facility when he took his own life in August 2014. Susan Schneider Williams says she found Williams with a bloodied head wound in late July of last year, [_People_ reports](http://www.people.com/article/robin-williams-committed-facility-suicide-susan-williams?xid=socialflow%5Ftwitter%5Fpeoplemag "undefined"). After receiving treatment for the injury, which Williams called a “miscalculation” with a door, the actor met with a psychiatrist who told him it was time for an inpatient neurocognitive evaluation. Williams had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease earlier that year. An autopsy after his death revealed Williams also had Lewy Body Dementia, a [type of dementia whose symptoms can include hallucinations](http://time.com/4098222/lewy-body-dementia-robin-williams/ "undefined"). “By the time he made it to inpatient we would have gotten around to the fact that he has Lewy Body Dementia,” Schneider Williams said. “But what I know now is that if Robin was lucky he would have made it three years. And he might have never left a facility. It was very bad.” Read more at [People](http://www.people.com/article/robin-williams-committed-facility-suicide-susan-williams?xid=socialflow%5Ftwitter%5Fpeoplemag "undefined"). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4099506/robin-williams-widow-inpatient-facility/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4099506/robin-williams-widow-inpatient-facility/"},"headline":"Robin Williams' Widow: Actor Was to Move to Treatment Center Before Death","datePublished":"2015-11-04T14:45:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T12:19:54.291Z","description":"His health had declined in the weeks before his suicide","url":"https://time.com/4099506/robin-williams-widow-inpatient-facility/","keywords":["celebrities","robin williams"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf3e30ee1b06de881/69886f860a4a2249559c6e32/robin-williams1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf3e30ee1b06de881/69886f860a4a2249559c6e32/robin-williams1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"CBS 2013 Upfront Presentation","caption":"CBS 2013 Upfront Presentation","creditText":"Jennifer Graylock—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4099506/robin-williams-widow-inpatient-facility/","name":"Robin Williams' Widow: Actor Was to Move to Treatment Center Before Death"}}]}] ```