Nov. 07--In the days before Robin Williams hanged himself in his stepson's bedroom, the troubled actor had become increasingly paranoid and had difficulty sleeping, according to a coroner's report released Friday.
Williams' sleeping problems included talking in his sleep. The nightly disruptions had gotten so bad for him and his wife that Williams took to sleeping in the bedroom of his stepson, who was away, according to newly released details included in the Marin County Coroner's autopsy report.
The day before he he was found dead in his Tiburon home on Aug. 11, Williams put a few of his wrist watches into a sock and dropped it off at an associate's house -- an odd incident his wife chalked up to his increasing concern over the safety of his valuables.
Later that evening, Williams handed his wife some magazines he'd bought her and toyed around on his iPad for a bit. Then, he retired to his son's bedroom and locked the door.
The next morning, his wife out running errands, William's assistant and a second person at the home became concerned when the actor didn't leave his bedroom. They slipped him a note under the door to see if he was OK, but got no response.
Eventually, according to the coroner's report, the assistant picked the bedroom lock with a paperclip and found Williams' body.
The time of the actor's death was recorded as 12:02 p.m. on Aug. 11. A toxicology screen showed Williams had no illicit drugs or alcohol in his system when he died. Prescription medications were detected in proper therapeutic levels, officials said.
Williams died from asphyxiation after hanging himself inside his Tiburon home.
Williams, hailed as a comic genius, was a star of movies and television for more than three decades.
The actor, however, had been open about his problems with cocaine and alcohol over the years. Williams spent time on a Hazelden addiction treatment campus in Oregon in 2006. He later revealed that drinking had gradually become a problem for him again after 20 years of sobriety.
Weeks before he died, he returned to rehab to "fine-tune" his sobriety.
The actor had been "battling severe depression of late," his publicist, Mara Buxbaum, said soon after Williams' death.
Born in Chicago in 1951, Williams was accepted into John Houseman's acting program at Juilliard along with Christopher Reeve, who became a lifelong friend.
UPDATE
3:25 p.m.: This post was updated with more information about Williams' condition in the days preceding his suicide, as well as more details from the coroner's report.
This story was originally published at 1:32 p.m.
