Gary felt betrayed and completely abandoned by the people who were closest to him, according to his best friend Dion Mial, who told the show of the situation.
Sue and Willie have both denied using the money wrongly many times. In the documentary, Gary’s dad called Dion, Gary’s friend, a “demon.”
Gary had bouts of depression and suicidal thoughts in 1997, but he met Anna Gray, who worked at a California Blockbuster store, and the two of them moved in together.
Even though they were close, Anna says Gary never wanted sex. He “loved to hold hands, kiss, and cuddle,” she says.
He barely had any acting work left, and Anna says that people treated him like a “penny arcade” by asking him over and over to say his famous catchphrase.
Another thing he hated was being asked for autographs.
He said he wasn’t guilty in court about a fight he had with a fan in 1998 who saw him working as a security guard in a California mall.
The following year, Gary tried to get out of debt.
After his relationship with Anna ended, he started going out with Shannon Price in 2007.
She was working as an extra in the movie Church Ball when Gary went there to film it. That’s how they met.
They got married on a remote hilltop in Nevada’s Valley of Fire State Park in 2007. He was almost 40 years old and she was 22.
Right away, the couple had problems, and in a TV show clip that was never shown, Gary says that Shannon only wants his money.
He was ticketed for disorderly conduct after a “heated discussion” with her in public not long after they got married.
The actor’s lawyer, Randy Kester, told the producers of the movie Gary, which is about to come out in the UK, that their relationship was “tumultuous.”
Also, he made it sound like he wished the star had cut Shannon out of his life after they broke up instead of staying with her.
He also said, “They would joke around and seem happy at times, but then all of a sudden they would get angry, yell, insult, and belittle others.”
“She was doing something every day, making trouble, putting down his manhood, his size, and sometimes calling him a failure.”
“I always thought he would confront me one day and say, ‘I’m done. I want her to leave my life.'”
“I felt bad that he didn’t make it to that point.”
“Garry and I talked about getting a restraining order more than once. He just couldn’t take it anymore.”
Gary had just finished dialysis for the morning in May 2010 when Shannon asked him to put pizza in the oven. She said she was upstairs.
In the documentary, she says that she heard a bang and went downstairs to find the star lying on the kitchen floor with a cut on her head.
The scary 911 caller asks Price to make sure Coleman puts pressure on his wound, but Price says, “No I can’t, it’s all bloody. He’s not with it.”
The person taking the call is told by Shannon that she is having seizures and doesn’t want to be “traumatized right now.”
Her behavior is being questioned by Gary’s friends. Anna Gray, Gary’s ex-wife, said, “She was more worried about herself than the person she was calling 911 for.” I think what she did says a lot.
“Personally, in my opinion, I don’t think that he fell,” said Brandi Buys, another close friend.It’s hard for me to say what I want to say without risking being sued. Coleman’s best friend Dion said, “He didn’t have to fall that far to cause such a serious injury.”
“That raises a lot of questions,” he said. “Shannon saw him get put in the back of an ambulance and then went back inside.” The only person there was Gary.
Shannon replied that she didn’t want to go with her husband because she thought he would be “stitched up” at the hospital and then sent home.
She said she talked to him on the phone while he was getting treatment and they said they loved each other. She was shocked to later get a call saying that Gary had passed out from a brain hemorrhage.
The actor had papers that said he wanted to be cared for for at least two weeks before his life support was turned off in case he got really sick.
Shannon, though, points out that it also said machines could be turned off if nothing else could be done.
They talked about the moment she said goodbye to her husband: “I went in there and said everything I needed to say: ‘I love you, I’m going to miss you, you’re the best thing that ever happened to me, and you really were loved and cared for.'”
“Taking him off of life support was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do.”
Shannon sold pictures of Gary in the hospital to a US tabloid magazine, which made Gary’s best friend Dion very angry.
He said, “It was one of the worst things I’ve ever seen someone do to another person.”
“Coleman often called himself “God’s punching bag” throughout his life.”
“Gary’s life was full of failures and disappointments. Numerous people let him down.