As a fellow actor, Glenn Close was a first-hand witness to the tight-knit bond between Robin Williams and Christopher Reeve. She shared the details of this during her 2017 speech, explaining that she saw the two together while filming with Williams on Fishers Island for the movie “The World According to Garp.”
“On Friday evenings, Chris would literally swoop in, piloting his own plane, scoop Robin up, and away they would fly for the weekend,” Close recalled, adding that the comedian would be back by Sunday afternoon, looking visibly ruffled from the duo’s weekend antics. “They were on top of the world. They were living the kind of fast and crazy life that our business can hand to you if you become a wildly famous phenomenon, practically overnight.” Close believes that this decades-long friendship would’ve kept Robins alive if Reeve hadn’t passed away in 2004.
While we know that the two had a significant bond, it’s important to note that Williams was suffering from undiagnosed Diffuse Lewy Body Dementia or Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) at the time of his death. Susan Schneider, Williams’ wife, believes it was this rare brain condition that ultimately led to her husband’s suicide. “It was not depression that killed Robin,” she told People in 2015. “Depression was one of, let’s call it, 50 symptoms, and it was a small one.”
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