Robin Williams was sober and battling early stages of Parkinson's disease when he committed suicide early this week, his widow said.
In a statement issued Thursday, William's wife Susan Schneider called her late husband a wonderful man and father, and acknowledged that he had been "fighting personal battles" including depression.
But she assured the public that he had been sober when he took his own life Monday in their Tiburon home. Williams, 63, had publicly shared his cocaine use when he did standup comedy in the 1980s, but had since gone to rehab, and said he had been clean for the last 20 years.
The Marin County Coroner determined that Williams committed suicide by "asphyxia." Williams' personal assistant found him in a bedroom.
