LEARNING SOME OF THE
REASONS WHY THE ACTOR 
MAY HAVE TAKEN HIS LIFE.
KETK'S MARLENA HAMILTON 
IS LIVE IN THE STUDIO TO
TELL US MORE ABOUT THE
MENTAL ISSUES THE ICONIC
COMEDIAN STRUGGLED
WITH. 
NEAL..ITS A TRAGEDY THAT
SHOOK ALL OF US ... HOW 
CAN SUCH AN INFLUENTIAL 
ACTOR... SOMEONE WE 
THOUGHT WAS VERY
HAPPY...HANG HIMSELF? 
WELL, WE'RE FINDING OUT 
MORE ABOUT HIS MENTAL 
STATE...AND WHAT MAY
HAVE LED HIM DOWN THIS
DARK PATH.
"it's hard to see someone who 
brought so much joy to so 
many people have so much
turmoil going on" THE WORLD 
IS MOURNING THE LOSS OF 
63 YEAR OLD ROBIN 
WILLIAMS. MANY QUESTION 
WHY THIS ICONIC STAR
WOULD END HIS LIFE IN 
SUCH A TRAGIC WAY. BUT
WHAT WAS BEHIND THE 
COMIC GENIUS WAS A
SEVERELY DEPRESSED MAN
SUFFERING FROM BIPOLAR
DISORDER. "bipolar disorder 
is a fluctuation of moods you 
go from extreme happiness or
anger and extreme 
depression."
HOLCOMB SAYS EVEN THE 
MOST ACCOMPLISHED 
INDIVIDUALS LIKE WILLIAMS 
HAVE VOICES IN THEIR HEAD 
SAYING THEIR NOT GOOD 
ENOUGH. "even someone like
Robin Williams where you
think they're on top of the 
world their hiding that 
depression" "we didn't ask to 
have a mental illness, it 
doesn't just happen to the
under privileged or whatever
it happens to everybody." 
WHITE KNOWS FIRST HAND
WHAT THE ACTOR WAS
GOING THROUGH. "i was 
down in the dumps and there 
were days i was up here." 
MANY TIMES SHE THOUGHT
OF TAKING HER OWN LIFE. " 
I didn't want to live because 
of the things I was going 
through" BUT WITH 
PROFESSIONAL HELP AND 
FAMILY SUPPORT SHE GOT
THE HELP SHE NEEDED.... 
WHICH SHE WISHED
WILLIAMS COULD HAVE 
TRIED HARDER TO DO THE
SAME. "Robin Williams was a 
good man and he was 
depressed no one knows what 
he was thinking when he did 
what he did but that's why we 
got to keep talking about 
mental illness we got to keep 
talking about the suicides
because no one knows unless 
you go through it yourself" 
OF COURSE RIGHT KNOW WE 
DON'T KNOW IF WILLIAMS
WAS OR WASN'T GETTING 
HELP, BUT WHITE SAYS
GETTING HELP WAS WHAT 
SAVED HER LIFE. AND THIS
ALL COMES DOWN TO ONCE
AGAIN... THE IMPORTANCE 
OF UNDERSTANDING MENTAL 
ILLNESS...SO IT DOESN'T 
TAKE ANOTHER PRECIOUS 
LIFE...LIKE IT JUST DID ON
MONDAY. REPORTING LIVE
IN THE STUDIO MARLENA 
HAMILTON KETK NEWS. 
TEMPERATURES IN THE 90S 
AGAIN TODAY, B
