'RE LIVE
IN TIMES SQUARE THIS
MORNING. 
>> THANKS MONICA,
WHERE CONTINUING
THIS CONVERSATION
BECAUSE ROBIN
WILLIAMS WAS ONE OF
THE MOST TALENT
ACTORS AND COMEDIANS
AND ONE OF THOSE
MOMENTS WHERE I HAD
A CHANCE TO
INTERVIEW HIM
MYSELF, YOU THINK HE
WAS ON TOP OF THE
WORLD SOMETIMES
FAME, FORTUNE,
ALWAYS HAS A DARK
SIDE, ROBIN WILLIAMS
WAS FOUND
UNRESPONSIVE AT HIS
HOME YESTERDAY OF AN
APPARENT SUICIDE,
THE QUESTION
EVERYONE IS ASKING
IS HOW COULD THIS
HAPPEN? WE WILL
DELVE DEEPER INTO
THIS AND TALK ABOUT
DEPRESSION. 
ADDICTION
SPECIALIST, WELCOME
BACK TO THE SHOW
GUYS. WE HAVE
JEFFREY GARIN, NICE
TO HAVE YOU HERE.
YET A PERSONAL
CONNECTION TO HIM. 
YOUR WORD, WHEN YOU
HEARD ABOUT THIS? 
>> I FELT LIKE I GOT
PUNCHED IN THE GUT,
HONESTLY, DEVASTATED
IS A GOOD WORD TO
USE. THE ENTIRE
COMEDY COMMUNITIES
DEVASTATED. I FIRST
MET RABIN AND THE
LATE '70S, EARLY
'80S, JACK ROLLINS
WHO WAS WITH WOODY
ALLEN AND BILLY
CRYSTAL AT THE
TIME, SEEING HIM
SPORADICALLY OVER
THE YEARS, THE LAST
TIME I SAW HIM HE
WAS GETTING THE ICON
AWARD FROM THE
COMEDY CENTRAL
COMEDY AWARDS. A
HUGE THING. MY
PRIZED POSSESSION, I
THINK PEOPLE KNOW
THAT HE SENT ME IN
1991. 
>> YOU STILL HAVE
IT. 
>> YES, THE FISHER
KING. I HAD THE
HONOR ARE RUNNING
OF RIGHT AND SOME
JOKES THAT RICHARD
PRYOR WROTE, HE
WROTE ON IT, I HAD
WRITTEN SOME JOKES
AND IT LOOKS LIKE HE
WAS NOT GOING TO DO
THEM, THE DAY OF THE
REST, I HAD THE
JOKES AND IT IS
OPENING LINE AND
SAID CAREER GOING
WHILE, CAN YOU SPARE
$50 FOR SOME DAWN
DON PERIGNON? HE WAS
SUCH A COMEDY
GENIUS, ONLY ONE OF
HIM AND NEVER WILL
BE AGAIN. 
>> WE WERE TALKING
ABOUT HIS CAREER,
SPANNED DECADES IN
TOUCH SO MANY, THE
GREAT WORK THAT HE
DID IN HIS PERSONAL
LIFE AND HIS DEMONS
AND ADDICTION AND
1970'S, HE WAS VERY
FRANK ABOUT HIS LOVE
OF COCAINE AND OF
ALCOHOL AND
EVERYTHING LIKE
THAT. HE SAID AS TO
GET OLDER YOU
SOMETIMES RELAPSE
INTO IT. 
>> I THINK THAT
DEPRESSION AND
ADDICTION IS A
DEGENERATIVE
DISEASE, IT GETS
WORSE AS PEOPLE AGE
IN TIME. 
>> HE RECENTLY
TURNED HIMSELF IN
FOR A TUNEUP. AND I
GUESS, HE SET
HIMSELF IN FOR A
TUNEUP, HE SEEMED A
BIPOLAR. AND HE WAS
DIAGNOSED AS
BIPOLAR. 
>> MANIC ENERGY AND
I THINK COCAINE AND
STIMULANTS RELEASED,
AND THAT PRODUCES
ALL LONG-TERM
COGNITIVE
DISTORTION, SO A
VERY DIFFICULT
THING. 
>> DIAGNOSED AS
MANIC DEPRESSIVE,
BIPOLAR, A LOT OF
PEOPLE SAID HE MADE
INTO HIS 60S, SO
THEY THOUGHT HE
WOULD BE OK, BUT HE
WAS NOT. WHAT MAKES
SOMEBODY GO UP AND
DOWN AND UP AND
DOWN, SOMEONE WHO
KNOWS THE ADDICTION
AND EVIL. SOMEONE
WHO HAS BEEN DOWN
THAT PATH TO TAKE
THAT STEP? 
>> THIS IS SOMEONE
WHO HAS BEEIN THE
PRESS FOR A VERY,
VERY LONG TIME AND
TALK ABOUT DEALING
WITH THE MEN'S, CALL
THE COMIC GENIUS,
AND AS MANY COMICS,
TALKING ABOUT THEIR
ISSUES, TRYING TO
MAKE IT. 
>> CHRIS FARLEY,
FREDDIE 
PRINZE ... THE LIST
GOES ON. 
>> AND PEOPLE WHO
ARE OVER 60, WHITE
MALES MUCH MORE AT
RISK FOR DEPRESSION
AND SUICIDE. 
>> 2009 I BELIEVE HE
SAID HE HAD A
RELAPSE TO ALCOHOL
AND HAD HEART
SURGERY AND HEART
SURGERY REALLY MADE
HIM SORT OF TAKE
ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE,
A LOT PEOPLE SAID HE
HAD A GENIUS MOMENT
AND IT WAS TOUGH FOR
HIM. 
>> JOEL IS RIGHT,
YOUR BODY BEGINS TO
BREAK DOWN, THE
BRAIN BEGINS TO
BRING DOWN FROM ALL
THAT SELF MEDICATING
AND THIS IS SOMEONE
WHO WAS AN EMOTIONAL
NEW SYSTEM WAS
PROBABLY VERY LOW, A
VERY LOW POINT IN
HIS LIFE BECAUSE HE
DID NOT HAVE THE
FREEDOM OF
EXPRESSION THAT HE
WOULD HAVE WANTED
AND NEEDED WHEN HE
WAS IN MOVIES FOR
EXAMPLE. 
>> A VERY STRONG
CONNECTION TO HEART
SURGERY AND
DEPRESSION, 20
PERCENT OF PEOPLE
THAT GO FOR HEART
SURGERY SUFFER WITH
THAT AND PEOPLE WHO
HAVE HEART ATTACKS,
SOMETIMES IT IS ONE
OUT OF THREE OF THIS
SURVIVE, AT THIS
LEVEL OF TALENT, IN
ORDER TO HAVE THAT
HE MUST HAVE
SENSITIVITY. PEOPLE
FEEL THING SO
DEEPLY, THEY CAN
EVEN HELP IT. 
>> JOE, WE ALL HAVE
A DARK SIDE. 
>> BUT I THINK
DEPRESSION AND
ADDICTION IS A
CHRONIC ILLNESS THAT
SHORTENS LIFE SPANS,
IT IS TRAGIC, IT IS
HORRIBLE AND AM GLAD
TO SEE THAT THIS
SEEMS TO BE MORE
CULTURAL ENTITY FOR
ROBIN WILLIAMS, A
LOT OF PEOPLE SPREAD
HATE, WRITING
MISINFORM THINGS
ABOUT PEOPLE WITH
MENTAL ILLNESS. HE
SEEMED TO HAVE A
SEVERE LEVEL OF IT
AND IT WILL SHORTEN
THE LIFE SPAN. 
>> DEPRESSION IS NOT
ABOUT LAZINESS,
SUICIDE IS NOT
SOMEONE WH IS WEAK,
IT REALLY IS A
MENTAL ILLNESS WE
HAVE TO ADDRESS
THEIR IS AND THERE'S
PLENTY OF HELP ON
OUR WEB SITE,
REACHING OUT TO
THOSE PEOPLE WHO
NEED OUR HELP AND IS
ABOUT OUR FAMILY
MEMBERS, LOVED ONES
TO MAKE SURE THAT
THE HELP THEY NEED.
WE HAVE TO DO ALL WE
CAN. THANK YOU SO
MUCH, I LOT OF
INSIGHT. BECAUSE
MUCH FOR SHARING
THAT MEMORABILIA
WHICH IS MORE
TOUCHING ABOUT
UPON HEARING
THIS TERRIBLE AND IT
IS PAIRED FOR MORE
INFORMATION ON ROBIN
WILLIAMS AND
CONTINUING COVER
