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english teachers and all of us to have a teacher like that. we'll have a lot of robin williams' great work throughout this hour, but let's get to trace gallagher who join us on the details of this emerging story as we go back and forth between the news and the latest from the sheriff's office in our west coast newsroom. good evening to you, trace. >> good evening, martha. we are learning robin williams last seen at 10:00 last night in his home in california just north of the golden gate bridge in san francisco in marrin county. the 911 call did not come in until 11:55 this morning. by the time authorities got to his house just before noon, robin williams was not responding, he was not breathing. he was pronounced dead just shortly after noon. the cause of death the sheriff's department believes asphyxiation. the family will not confirm a suicide. his wife releasing a statement that says, and i'm quoting here, "this morning i lost my husband and my best friend while the

world lost one of its most beloved artists and a beautiful human being. i am utterly heartbroken. on behalf of robin's family we are can go for privacy during our time of profound grief. as he is remembered it is our hope the focus will not be on robin's death but on the countless moments of joy and laughter he gave to millions." we all know he had a very well publicized struggle with addiction, cocaine, alcohol in the '70s and '80s. he cleaned up in the '80s but then checked into rehab again in 2006 after 20 years of sobriety. and we have just learned that just a few weeks ago he was back in rehab for alcohol. a guest appearance on laverne and shirley and then "mork and mindi." he was deadly serious and laugh-out-lout funny. "entertainment weekly" called

him the funniest man alive. his hero jonathan winters. they would sit in an attic and grab one toy and improvise about it for one hour. he was married three times, three children. and as you might imagine the reaction is coming out. steve martin quoting here, "i could not be more stunned by the loss of robin williams, mensch, great talent, acting partner, genuine soul. the sheriff's department will hold a news conference concerning his death, martha, tomorrow late morning. >> trace, thank you. as trace just mentioned during the 1970s gary marshal was the producer of the megahit "happy days." when he first auditioned a fast-talking comic by the name of marshal williams and he was given a cameo of an alien, mork. do you remember those episodes in they were great. that led to "mork and mindy." a show that would make williams

a household name. let's watch. >> you're not a priest. who are you? >> i'm mork from mork. >> mork? >> yes. you see, ork is a planet. you follow the big dipper until it comes to a dead end, then you hang it an up. >> an up? >> up, down, hard to tell in hyper space. >> right. i have a poor sense of direction myself. so you're from outer space? >> yes. you mind if i take a few pictures for the folks on the home planet? they'd like to get some postcards. >> oh, no. >> okay. watch the flukey. [ laughter ] >> how did you do that? >> with my gloves. >> great stuff. they taught each other all kinds of life lessons along the way,

"mork and mindy." such a shock. >> completely shocking. i saw those come across twitter completely stunned. robin williams was spotted just a few months ago in june at a rehab facility in minnesota and his rep was saying he was going for this sort of tune-up. he hadn't fallen off the wagon, so everything was looking great. so to hear this just shocking. >> the word is that he was very depressed lately. he talked a lot about financial woes, about downsizing. he made a lot of jokes about all of the money he lost through his divorces. anything that you're hearing about what may have been at the heart of that depression? >> he was a tortured soul. some people that's in their dna and i think you see that with a lot of celebrities that really span the spectrum. everyone from the likes of halle berry even. but people in hollywood, they're very complex characters. he said he was depressed. from the outside we wouldn't get that. he had all these incredible

films behind him. he has four more films coming out over the next 12 months including holiday films. >> he worked a lot. >> so we're going to be seeing him on film, especially for christmas time, it's going to be unbelievable. and like you mentioned, i interviewed him before and i'm a huge fan of his. i thought he was incredible. i loved him in "good morning, vietnam," "mrs. doubtfire," you've just got to watch. what struck me was like oh, my gosh, when you're a fan even if you're a journalist, you can't help yourself. you're so funny, you're amazing. and he was still very kind of humble about it. and i thought he was like this god, this funniest guy. but you can still see that there was not almost like a dark side to him as well that he wasn't sort of jumping on the bandwagon like, oh, yeah, cracking jokes and making funny. but a huge, huge loss because he was such a strong character actor. >> he was incredible. that manicness, years ago i had a friend who was an acting teacher here in new york and he

said he taught him at juliard and said he would disappear for days. and where is he and he would show up in this unbelievable hamlet. leaving everyone in tears. incredible. >> i think it was that energy. and his physicality. i remember he was sort of this hairy guy and he thought it was so funny. >> so honest about himself. >> steve, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> good to have you here tonight. >> thanks a lot. >> news of robin williams death hit hollywood as stars and fans gathered for a movie premiere in hollywood. our fox affiliate is live at williams' star on the hollywood walk of fame. susan, welcome. good evening. >> reporter: thank you very much, martha. indeed we are leer on the hollywood walk of fame. normally in this kind of situation when a favorite star has passed this area would be filled with flowers and fans, candles, people paying homage to

the man who has entertained us for as long as he has. but because of that hollywood premiere, it's the opening night for "expendables 3," so there are a lot of fencing and a lot of blocked traffic. and it's actually quite difficult for those who are here because they want to pay homage to robin williams to actually get to his star. instead i want to show you what it looks like to the right of me. this big black wall here, that is shielding the fact that on the other side is the red carpet for "expendables 3." that's why it's so difficult for the fans to come here. we managed to talk to a couple of people who made it through the traffic, made it through this line in order to lay some flowers down. a man came by with a sketch. he said that he had met robin williams once and robin said to him, we like the smile in your eye. and another man who was there in afghanistan when he was on a tour there and robin williams came around to the backstage and

the soldier was startled and basically robin williams said thank goodness you're a fan because otherwise i wouldn't want to see what happens if you are not. that is the situation here. people are learning about his death because we're here, the media is right here. >> a lot of shocked people as they arrive there tonight and their reaction. susan, thank you very much for being with us. so the director who worked with robin williams on "patch adams" is here with us tonight on "the kelly file," and we'll be joined by one of the comics who worked with him in the improve days. and up next, dr. keith ablow on the circumstances that surround his death. >> oh, no, i killed the bastard. help is on the way, dear! help is on the way!

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we are back. and we have more news on the death of robin williams tonight. we just got reaction from the president. we're going to have more on that in just a moment. but first let's take a look back as we're going to do throughout the evening tonight at this great scene from "good morning,

vietnam." >> good morning, vietnam! hey, this is not a test. this is rock and roll. time to rock it from the delta to the dmz. is that me or does that sound like an elvis presley movie? viva da nang. is it too early for being that loud? it's oh, 600. >> you wonder how much of that if any is actually scripted. a psychiatrist and member of the fox news medical aid team, boy, what a genius. what a brain. what a way of entertaining people. and then the other side of robin williams obviously had a lot of strife, a lot of difficulty, alcoholism, drugs, depression. >> you know, i sometimes tell people i'm treating who are capable of extraordinary achievement in life and yet suffer terrible depression that

some people are more like ferraris than they are camrys. so capable of extraordinary performance, but the cost of that can be that you're extraordinarily fragile. that you need care. and that sometimes you're in the shop. the sad thing here is that depression is so treatable, martha. literally vastly more than 95% of the people can recover completely. and even in robin williams case apparent he didn't get the care that would have turned that corner for him. >> he had been treated. he went in rehab. he talked very openly about his cocaine use back in the '70s even when he was doing "mork and mindy" he said he was using at that point. the alcohol complicated things. three marriages. a lot on the plate. he was always very open about talking about his failure at marriage, talked about his financial difficulties even. it's shocking to me with all of the success that he had and four more movies about to come out

that he said he had to downsize. >> yes. i'm sure the financial stress may have been real, but listen, i've also treated men and women who believe that their finances are in utter disarray when it isn't true. depression twists reality. after all nothing's ever that bad, right? it's essentially a delusional illness always because you can always have another chapter to your life story. it's never over until you declare it so. so i don't know if his finances were that much in disarray or if he believed that they couldn't be resurrected. >> he was seeking happiness, clearly. because he had just married again. she said she was married to her best friend. and they seemed, you know, outwardly they seemed happy. so that says to me not a psychiatrist that he was hopeful, that he was attempting happiness. >> you know, one of the very difficult things about depression especially for family members, i always tell family members, if you god forbid lose

someone to thisillness, don't hold yourself responsible. most psychiatrists have trouble determining at what point is this individual? how risky is this moment? so, you know what, here's the thing, the room can appear airless and without exit to people with depression even as they are going to work. it doesn't look necessarily as though they're disabled, but underneath there can be that very dark undercurrent. >> i was reading about him, you know, his dad works for ford, his mom was a model. he was raised on what seemed like an upper middle class kind of home. >> yeah. >> siblings. you know, i guess what i'm getting at is where does that genius, that sort of off the wall manic ability to ad lib in just that incredibly talented way? >> well, listen, if you presume that it comes from an ability to kindle things neurologically,

that he's that quick that his sin ap sis, we're all the slings and arrows in life befall many of us that can be very painful for somebody like that who's that aware sochlt if an injury, psychologically would register with many of us, maybe even in a bad way, with him it could be a kind of calamity because he's that sensitive. >> you know, obviously we're going to learn more details about this suicide. but the early reports are asphyxiation. you don't even want to have that image of this man that we were so entertained by, so gifted. >> u you don't want to. it's the kind of image that does testify what it does to people because it does remove that sense that you can breathe at all. and then he made it concrete. people have to sort of make

sense of that who loved him. i just hope that for anybody out there tonight who's saying, well even he succumbed. no. it's never been a more hopeful time in treating depression. if you're suffering with it, get to a doctor, get to a great doctor and stick it out because around the corner it is a new day. >> doctor, thank you. we'll leave it at that positive note. good to see you. coming up we're going to get insights on williams as celebrities share their grief tonight over the tragic and shocking news today. kelly clarkson saying, "devastating finding out about robin williams today. he was an amazing talent and incredibly sweet. so sad. his friends, his legacy and more of his greatest moments because we're going to relive a lot of them here tonight. we're going to play them for you so you can appreciate him in his fullness as we celebrate the life of robin williams.

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better off without her? >> no, i'm not saying -- >> i didn't mean -- >> it's all right. it's an important question. because you'll have bad times,

but they'll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren't paying attention to. >> and you don't regret meeting your wife? >> why? because the pain i feel now? i got regrets, will. but i don't regret a single day i spent with her. >> so when did you know, like, that she was the one for you? >> october 21st, 1975. >> robin williams, one of the most memorable moments from the 1997 hit film "good will hunting." it earned him an academy award. joining me now is host of in the fox light. he was just at a red carpet here in new york city for a very big movie that is opening up when that news broke. >> this is the last place i thought i'd be tonight talking about this. we all just thought we had so much more time with robin williams. as coming to the red carpet, the minute the news broke we were stunned.

first reaction was to check to see if it was a hoax because people couldn't wrap their arms around it. the air just wouldn't let out of the room after thachlt the publicists got us to ask any questions out it but i had to. i threw a question out to jeff bridges, he stopped, paused, looked back and decided not to talk. there was a point he broke down a little bit when he first heard the news. it's been a tough night for a lot of people. just go onto twitter and you see robin williams' legacy. i mean, people are just, you know -- >> it's one of those situations where you don't appreciate someone fully, sadly. >> yeah. >> until they're gone. and you start to remember all of the -- the gift of being able to entertain people like that is a gift. and he was born with it. and he was able to make people laugh and draw people in. and you point out that we have four more movies of robin williams that we can look forward to. >> this year and into next.

"merry frigin christmas," "night at the museum," just signed to do "mrs. doubtfire." i myself along with everyone else looking forward to that. go onto twitter, steve martin says, i cannot be more stunned about the death of robin williams. i can't believe the news about robin williams. he gave so much to so many people. i'm heartbroken. and he paid for the medical bills for christopher reeve. so he was just that kind of -- >> he and christopher reeve were two students who made it into the freshman class at juliard. and they only take 20 every year. and they were in the class together. which is incredible. they were good, good friends. he was with him through all of that. very tough times. michael, thank you very much. thank you for being with us tonight. we'll have reaction from the white house as well which has just come in and more on the

investigation into the death of robin williams as we learn more details about what happened in this very, very sad story tonight. but first, henry wink ler sending out his thoughts tonight on twitter. robin williams was like no other, to watch him create a spot was privilege to be hold. robin, you are an angel now. rest in peace. still ahead, the director of "patch adams" and what may be the greatest robin williams scene ever. >> okay. i think we're good. >> theodore roosevelt, president of the united states of america. i have no idea what that means. yeah...

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much joy and laughter he's brought everyone and then to see that happen. heartbroken. >> there's nothing he did that wasn't good for a laugh. >> he was just a heartwarming character. sad. >> i actually liked his standup more than anything. he's known more in kids movies and stuff like that, but i think his personality in general just showed a lot about him. >> favorite memories of him. >> oh, my gosh. "mrs. doubtfire." >> definitely. >> he was always -- he was always so full of energy, you know? it's hard to imagine somebody depressed to do something like that. >> i love "mrs. doubtfire" too. trace gallagher reports from our west coast newsroom tonight. hi, trace. >> hi, martha. we just asked to the marin county sheriff's department and they would only tell us there's

a news conference tomorrow. but as you showed there the reaction from around the world continues to pour in. president obama releasing a statement that reads in part, quoting here, he arrived in our lives as an alien but ended up touching every element of the human spirit. he made us laugh, he made us cry, he gave his immeasurable talent freely and generously to those who needed it most, from our troops stationed abroad to the marginalized on our own streets. we talked earlier about how the producer, gary marshall, gave robin williams his big break with "mork and mindy." he said today robin williams could make everybody happy except himself going onto say, quoting here, i will never forget the day i met him and he stood on his head in my office chair and pretended to drink a glass of water using his finger like a straw. he of course was a comedian's comedian. and today those that he influenced also spoke out, joel

mchail saying rest in peace, robin williams, you were one of the very best that ever was. you were one of my heroes. and comedian chris rock just saying so sad, so funny. robin williams by the way, martha, his last tweet was on july 31st where he simply said happy birthday to his daughter. back to you. >> great picture of him with his daughter attached to that. trace, thank you very much. joining us now michael graham who worked with robin williams at the punch line comedy club. learning something about you tonight, michael, that i did not know. tell us about that part of your life and when you crossed paths with him. >> it's pretty amazing. i was part of the big standup boom in the late '80s and '90s that robin williams helped create. i started getting gigs and working and one night i was at -- live at the met won in

1988 and i'm going to be opening for robin williams. i'd been opening for like phil, the lumber jack guy. so i'm up on the stage. the place was packed, word had gone out he was going to be there and the owners of theey s. i just looked to the crowd and i say, you know, these comics, they go off to hollywood and they lose their fastball, they used to be funny. we have a guy who wants to come back and pretend he does comedy again, please welcome robin williams. he looks at me really weird. i'm like, oh, boy, hey, it's a comedy club. i'm trying to be funny. later we're back at the punch line, the place is mobbed. you cannot breathe in there and i'm kind of in the back. i'm just an opening act. i'm a new guy. i've been in comedy for like a year. and robin sees me and looks at me in a way i can't get to you through all these people but he actually pushed the crowd apart

so he could tell a dopey opening act that he thought i was funny. he told me he thought i was funny and i floated out of the room. and that was that. it was who robin williams is. everyone i worked with who worked with him had the same thing. we know people they're so good at their job you put up with them being a jerk, he was always a great guy. >> we're hearing so many stories like that tonight just in terms of his personal generosity and also his humility. because we do see so many people who are stars at the level that he was a star at who lose that, who think they're pretty good and start to believe their own press releases. and he clearly from everything that we are learning about him and what we knew over all these years had that humility, which is tough to hang onto in hollywood, michael. >> particularly you're breaking something through. before robin williams you had joke tellers like robert klein and then story tellers like bill cosby. robin williams is on stage and

saying i'm going to create the robin williams universe and invite you all into it. i had never seen anybody do anything like that. he created the comedy that we take for granted today. he was one of the people, he and steve martin, a couple others, who created the entire genera and created the comedy boom. and i went up to running campaigns which robin would tell you is much funnier. >> michael, thank you very much. great story. >> thank you. >> thanks for sharing it with us tonight. what a high point. good to have you. so we've been bringing you some of the outpouring of reaction that of course is coming from hollywood and regular folks that didn't even know robin williams and people who did. and it was such unexpected news today. we were all working at our desks working on a show we were putting together that going to be quite different from what we're doing tonight and we have focused clearly on this man who you see on your screen. the comedian, the actor, robin williams. >> robin williams has previously

been nominated three times, this is his first academy award. >> what a moment that was for him. bonny fuller is president and editor and chief of hollywo hollywoodlife.com. thank you for being here tonight. shocked, right? >> absolutely shocked. robin williams was an icon. he had been kind of quiet lately and what we'd learned is he actually had gone back to rehab in july. and what was said at that time was that it wasn't that he'd fallen into addiction but that it was preventive. so clearly he was having issues very recently. >> yeah. and we're just getting bits and pieces of this story, but you know what has come out so far is that he had been struggling lately. that he was very depressed w. talked to dr. keith ablow about how difficult that can be even given all the success he had.

obviously he had his demons to be sure. always did, right? >> that's right. he had demons for a long, long time. his addiction issues go back to the '70s and '80s where he was very good friends with josh belushi and they would pal around and they did cocaine together. and they got into it very heavily. and it was only when john died from a cocaine overdose that it was a real wakeup call to robin williams. now, he also had a wife, his first wife who was expecting at the time. so the combination of john dying and expecting his what became a son, that really made him go cold turkey actually at the time. you know, like so many hollywood folks he had several wives, but his second wife who started out as the nanny to his oldest son, they were married 18, 19 years which in hollywood passes for a really successful long marriage, right? >> that's right. well, for most of that time he was free of his addictions.

he was sober. and after 20 years of being clean and sober, he again fell into now this time it was alcoholism. and he talked about it a lot afterwards. but he said that it was just like it started very insidiously. he felt that as an alcoholic or a drug addict that he was always on the edge. and at one point he just fell into it. had one drink. >> and thought he could have just a little bit. bonnie, thank you very much for being here tonight. >> thank you. so as we remember the life and the legacy of robin williams tonight, in moments we will speak to the director of one of his movies, "patch adams." first, let's look at robin williams very first appearance with none other than johnny carson. watch this. >> this is robin williams first appearance on "tonight show." people think performers don't get nervous. >> not really. oh, god, not really.

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i have a cold. [ laughter ] >> what's that? >> i don't either. i really don't. >> that's a big hit that movie. that's the scene from robin williams' movie "patch adams." moments ago we got reaction to his death from st. jude's childrens hospital. they said in part, mr. williams generously gave his time to raise awareness and funds for st. jude and our patients battling childhood cancer. his humor brought smiles and laughter to our patients and families. and his generosity deeply touched the hearts of all who knew him. he was a very charitable man. gave a lot to charities

throughout the course of his life. joining me is tom shadyak. i know this must be a very hard time for you, sir. >> yeah. it's heartbreaking. sorry, i'm a little emotional just hearing the music. i just spoke to my brother who runs the fund raising for st. jude. i'm here in memphis. they raise close to $1 billion a year for the hospital thanks to the generosity of everyone. and robin was just coming in to do a commercial for their thanks and giving campaign. he was loved by so many here. the kids loved him so much. and we all love him so much. and, yeah, we're all heartbroken tonight. >> obviously it's such a shock and so hard for you and the friends and people that he worked with over the course of all these years. it's been, you know, interesting tonight just looking back at this incredible body of work. what was it like when you, you know, first got together to work on this movie?

was that your first meeting with him? >> first time i'd met him, yeah. i'd seen him live. i'd seen that incredible energy. i was just a fan. i was a fan of all the great comics. i had a chance to work with eddie murphy and jim carry. and robin was like the missing piece of that genius puzzle. when i read the script for "patch adams," there was no other choice. i had two other moments in my life, i believe it was divinely appointed. one was when i cast god in "bruce almighty" and morgan freeman. i just knew there was nobody else. he really was patch adams. i've seen him in hospitals before he played the role. and he just like, he was medicine. he was just joy walking down the halls. and that's who he was on a movie set as well. whenever i needed him i looked to see where was the crowd of people smiling and he'd be in the middle of it.

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social media didn't exist when robin williams started his career, but he is all over it tonight. and a lot of similar sentiments we're seeing for thanking him from "mork and mindy," "mrs. doubtfire" and the times he touched people's lives and hearts. in terms of what was going on in his life, we will get a news conference tomorrow morning. we expect we'll get more news about the details of what happened to robin williams. tonight, thanks for bringing so

much laughter into my childhood, robin williams. i will see you tomorrow morning at 9:00 a.m.is is "the kelly fi" continuing coverage of the death of actor robin williams. i'm shepard smith in new york with a special edition of fox news reporting "hannity" will not be seen tonight. lots of new reaction this evening and hear from people who knew robin williams throughout this hour. the sheriff's office in marin county that somebody called 911 just before noontime today reporting a man unconscious, not breathing. we're told rescuers were there in five minutes, no time to save him. at 12:02 p.m. west coast time robin mclauren williams was officially pronounced dead. the coroner indicates robin williams