CELEBRITY AUTOPSIES WITH DISTURBING DISCOVERIES

 

ROBIN WILLIAMS

According to The Hollywood Reporter, police responded to a 911 call from Williams' home in Tiburon, California, on August 11, 2014, and discovered the actor dead, initially pinpointing the cause of death to be suicide by asphyxiation. His publicist reported that Williams had been suffering from depression, while a medical history intake (via THR) found he'd endured an increase in episodes of paranoia and that he'd been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, a progressive and debilitating neurological condition. An autopsy officially ruled the cause of Williams' death to be suicide while a toxicology procedure found antidepressants and a Parkinson's drug in Williams' system. However, an autopsy revealed that Williams didn't actually have Parkinson's disease — he had Lewy body disease, a relatively rare condition whose symptoms are so similar to Parkinson's that doctors may confuse the two.