Robin Williams looked "very thin" and "haggard" in the days leading up to his death.
The late ‘Mrs Doubtfire’ star’s friend Sir Billy Connolly has revealed the Hollywood actor – who took his own life in August 2014 – didn’t look his usual self when they met just a few days before his tragic passing.
He said: "I emailed him and said, ‘I saw you on the show and you were great,’ because I’d seen him in a newspaper saying he wasn’t sure about it. I got an email back saying, ‘Glad you liked the show – I’m in LA too, can we meet for dinner?’ He look very thin and kind of haggard about the face [when they had dinner]. I said, ‘Are you looking after yourself?’ He said, ‘Yeah, I’ve just lost a bit of weight recently.’ I’d read that he’d been drinking – some journalist had said it – and I said, ‘I hear you’re back on the sauce.’ He said, ‘Ah, it’s nothing, I just gave it a bash, never mind.’ Before we left, Robin said, ‘I love you, you know that, don’t you?’ I said, ‘Of course I know that.’ He said, ‘Are you sure you know it?’ and I said, ‘Yeah, it’s good.’ That was the last I said to him. Two days later he was dead."
And Billy admits Robin’s sad death took him by "surprise" because he thought the actor was such a "strong man".
Speaking on The Adam Buxton Podcast, he shared: "It took me by surprise, because he was such a strong man … strong in himself, he knew what he was."
Sir Billy Connolly: Robin Williams looked ‘haggard’ in the days leading up to his death
