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Parkinson’s Fallout
After Williams’ widow Susan Schneider revealed the troubled thesp was in the beginning stages of Parkinson’s Disease, Michael H, Fox, long a suffered of the neurodegenerative spoke out.
Fox, via Twitter, he was “stunned to learn Robin had” Parkinson’s disease, noting that he was “pretty sure” Williams’ charitable support for his foundation “predated his diagnosis.”
“A true friend; I wish him peace,” wrote Fox, who stayed mum on his 1991 diagnosis with Parkinson’s until 1999, forced to ankle his TV show Spin City to receive more extensive treatment. Fox in 2013 told Howard Stern his “first reaction to it was to start drinking heavily,” but eventually, and successfully, sought help.