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00:00It's one of the last photographs of Robin Williams, taken at a restaurant close to a
00:05rehab clinic where he'd checked in months before his death.
00:09Robin looks particularly frail.
00:11In the weeks before his death, Robin checked into Hazelden, an addiction treatment centre
00:16in Minnesota.
00:17He did so because he wanted to, quote, fine-tune and refocus.
00:21In truth though, Robin was more worried about the bouts of depression that were consuming
00:26While he was happy to talk publicly about his addictions to both booze and drugs, he
00:31kept his longer and more personally painful battle with Parkinson's disease all to himself.
00:39This was the moment when Robin became overpowered by his personal demons.
00:43To me, he's a comic genius that had so much to offer and so much life in him, and to see
00:51it cut short was very sad for me.
00:55Comedians, they experience highs and lows, they're usually very sensitive, very creative,
01:00very smart.
01:01If success and fame and money and friends doesn't matter in the end, then what does?