Alcoholism saw actor lose gifts that made him a star
“Quite often when he opens his mouth, a slur of unrelated words come out, like a dozen different false starts tangled together, from which an actual sentence eventually finds its way out. It’s like trying to tune into a long-wave radio station,” The Guardian reported in 2010.
Williams had been 20 years sober up to 2003. Following years of cocaine and alcohol abuse, he went cold turkey after the death of his friend John Belushi and before the birth of his son, Zachery.
