http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20390543,00.html

Gary Coleman's Wife Resisted Giving Him Emergency Aid

By Ken Lee

Gary Coleman's panicked wife initially balked at helping him after he suffered an apparent head injury that left him bloodied, according her 911 call.

Shannon Price, 24, tells the operator that Coleman was stricken while preparing her something to eat the evening of May 26 downstairs in their Santaquin, Utah, home.

"He just got home, I heard this big bang, I went downstairs. Blood everywhere," she says. "I don't know if he's okay. I'm not down there right now because I have a fever, if I get stressed out I'm going to faint."

Price says, "He fell. His head is bloody. There's blood all over the floor. I don't know what happened." The operator asks, "Is there any way you can go down there at all?" Price replies, "I'll try, I don't know, I mean..."

When the operator asks if anyone else is there who can go downstairs, Price says, "No," and adds, "I've just been kind of sick. I don't want to be traumatized right now."

Price then is heard saying, "Gary, are you okay?" and telling him, "Stay where you are" and "Don’t move, Gary."

The operator asks Price to tell Coleman to put pressure on his own wound. "Gary, you have to put pressure on your wound," Price is heard saying. "He's lethargic, I can't really help him. I just need help quick."

The operator says help is on the way. "I just can't be here with the blood," Price says. "I'm sorry, I can't do it. I can't. … There's blood all over and I can't do anything."

Price then says, "I can't drive" because she's been sick with a fever. "I can't do anything right now."

The operator asks Price "to at least give him a towel" so Coleman can apply pressure to his wound. Price replies, "Yeah, I'm just panicked. I don't know what to do … I just don’t want him to die. I'm freaking out."

Next, she's heard telling Coleman, "You have to put this on your head … Keep pressure on this, okay, hold this." She tells Coleman, "You need to sit down. Sit down! Gary, sit down!"

She tells the operator just moments before emergency crews arrive: "I'm gagging, I got blood on myself, I can't deal."

Coleman, 42, was taken off life support two days later after doctors determined he'd suffered a brain hemorrhage and his condition worsened. An official cause of death is still pending an investigation. Police say there was nothing suspicious about his accident.

Funeral plans have not yet been finalized, although the Price family may hold services by week's end in Utah, according to Coleman's attorney Randy Kester.

It's sad that Gary's wife was so wrapped up in her own issues that she couldn't have been more help to Him. It probably wouldn't have changed the final outcome at all but you would still think that his wife would have been at his side doing all she could to help. To me her excuses sound lame and self-centered. :mad:

"I don't want to be traumatized right now." - Whaaat???

"I don't want to be traumatized right now." - Whaaat???
I was thinking the same thing. If someone I loved was dying, I would do anything in my power to help them.

I was thinking the same thing. If someone I loved was dying, I would do anything in my power to help them.
Exactly. You wouldn't even think - you'd react!!!!

According to this article, Gary had no memory of what happened to him.

http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2010/06/02/2010-06-02_gary_coleman_was_bleeding_and_bubbling_at_the_mouth_before_death_911_call_by_his.html

Gary Coleman was bleeding and 'bubbling at the mouth' after accident, wife reveals in 911 call

BY Nancy Dillon
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Wednesday, June 2nd 2010, 8:05 PM


Gary Coleman was bleeding profusely and "bubbling at the mouth" after the mysterious kitchen accident that preceded his sudden death, his panic-stricken wife told a 911 dispatcher.

"I heard this big bang. I went downstairs, (and there was) blood everywhere. I don't know if he's okay. I'm not down there right now because I have seizures if I get stressed out," the tragic TV star's wife Shannon Price said when she summoned help to the couple's Utah home a week ago.

Coleman, 42, was rushed to a hospital and died Friday from a suspected brain hemorrhage.

"His head is bloody. There's blood all over the floor. I don't know what happened," Price said on the 911 tape released Wednesday. "Send someone quick because I don't even know if he's going to be alive. There's a lot of blood on the floor. …He's was like bubbling at the mouth."

Price, 24, said she wasn't sure if he had a seizure or accidentally fell while making her a snack while she waited in the bedroom.

The dispatcher asked Price to return to Coleman's side to check on his condition.

"He's moving," she said. "Gary are you okay? Stay where you are. Don't move Gary."

Price described Coleman as "lethargic" and said he didn't understand when she told him to put pressure on his head wound.

"I looked at the back of his head, and it's all bloody and gross," she said. "He's conscious, but he's not, like, with it."

She said he wasn't convulsing when she found him.

"I just don't want him to die. I'm freaking out, like, really bad," she said.

At one point Coleman stood up, and the dispatcher told Price he should sit down until help arrived.

"What's wrong?" Coleman is heard saying in the background.

"Look at the floor. Sit down," Price ordered him. "I'm gagging. I got blood on myself. I can't deal."

Coleman suffered a 1 to 1.25-inch laceration on his head from the accident, according to a police report obtained by the Daily News.

The "Diff'rent Strokes" star had no recollection when questioned at the scene, the report said, and nothing appeared suspicious.

"I asked if he hit his head on the floor or the kitchen counter or where, and he again told me did not remember," a responding officer from the Santaquin Police Department reported.

Coleman was able to walk with assistance to a waiting gurney in the couple's garage, the report said.

He was lucid the following morning but began losing consciousness last Thursday afternoon, hospital officials said.

He was removed from life support Friday.

Funeral services are planned in Salt Lake City this weekend, the Associated Press reports.

The victim of congenital kidney disease, Coleman underwent two kidney transplants by the time he was 14.

Transplant drugs stunted his growth and caused the eternal child-like appearance that both fueled and undercut his success.

Coleman starred in eight seasons of "Diff'rent Strokes" as the chubby-cheeked Arnold Jackson but struggled when the series ended in 1986.

He sued his parents for mishandling his trust fund, declared bankruptcy in 1999, admitted he once punched a woman who menacingly asked for an autograph and even worked a stint as a shopping mall security guard.

This whole thing gets fishier (not to mention creepier) as more details are released. :eek: :eek: :eek:

Here's the 911 call.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utZ2hHAcY9c

Here's the 911 call.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utZ2hHAcY9c
My mom and I heard that on the news. Unbelievable. Mark my words - Gary's parents will sue her for wrongful death. You heard it here first.

This whole thing gets fishier (not to mention creepier) as more details are released. :eek: :eek: :eek:
:yeahthat :eek:

"I don't want to be traumatized right now." - Whaaat???



There was just no excuse for that!! What on earth did she think HE was going through?!!

It is almost as though she WANTED him to die!

Something definitely sounds very suspicious there. :eek:

There was just no excuse for that!! What on earth did she think HE was going through?!!

It is almost as though she WANTED him to die!

Something definitely sounds very suspicious there. :eek:

I just don't really get it. I'm trying to figure out why he was bleeding everywhere. He was getting her a snack in the kitchen. Does that mean he was cooking and using the stove and something there caused a problem or does it mean he was taking something normally from a pantry and what could he have been bleeding so much from. Did he faint? And if so, was their counter or floor capable of cutting his head it just doesn't seem likely. It had to have been a sharp corner on a counter.

I want to hear what the doctor's take is on this situation.

I just don't really get it. I'm trying to figure out why he was bleeding everywhere. He was getting her a snack in the kitchen. Does that mean he was cooking and using the stove and something there caused a problem or does it mean he was taking something normally from a pantry and what could he have been bleeding so much from. Did he faint? And if so, was their counter or floor capable of cutting his head it just doesn't seem likely. It had to have been a sharp corner on a counter.

I want to hear what the doctor's take is on this situation.



Well, when my brother fell and hit the floor, it was kind of a similar one, except that there was no external bleeding. His death was caused allegedly by him going into full cardiac arrest after having had the stroke.

A person can fall from a standing position on the floor and not have any bleeding. But this all sounds too fishy to me! I've fallen any times and hit my head, but there was no memoraging at all. Only a small cut, bump or bruise.

Gary might have started hemoraging at the brain before his fall in the kitchen.
He might have had a blood clot or something, but the report says nothing about a clot.

And so, still, we are right back to Square One. What really caused him to bleed profusely, as it was told? We may never know until the final conclusion is revealed - as in the case of Michael Jackson last summer. :confused:

I just don't really get it. I'm trying to figure out why he was bleeding everywhere. He was getting her a snack in the kitchen. Does that mean he was cooking and using the stove and something there caused a problem or does it mean he was taking something normally from a pantry and what could he have been bleeding so much from. Did he faint? And if so, was their counter or floor capable of cutting his head it just doesn't seem likely. It had to have been a sharp corner on a counter.

I want to hear what the doctor's take is on this situation.
So do I. Are they planning an autopsy?

So do I. Are they planning an autopsy?



There was no mention of that either.

I think that everything surrounding this caase is so suspicious! :mad:

So do I. Are they planning an autopsy?
I read somewhere that the hospital released his body to a medical examiner so I'm assuming that is for the purpose of performing an autopsy.

I read somewhere that the hospital released his body to a medical examiner so I'm assuming that is for the purpose of performing an autopsy.
Oh, OK.

But still, it might be weeks or even months before the final outcome into his death is revealed.

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20391014,00.html

Gary Coleman's Ex-Wife Explains Why She Took Him Off Life Support

By Ken Lee

Thursday June 03, 2010 03:30 PM EDT



Shannon Price says Gary Coleman couldn't be saved after suffering a brain hemorrhage last week and she didn't want him left in a vegetative state, she explains in a video interview released Thursday.

"The doctors told us that even if they had done surgery on him, he would've died," Price says in the video posted on TMZ.com. "He would've bled to death during the surgery. Even if they did take a chunk out of his brain, he would not be the same. He'd basically be like Muhammad Ali ... I mean, Gary was gone."

Although it was revealed Wednesday that Coleman, 42, and Price, 24, had been divorced at the time of his death, a hospital confirmed Wednesday that the actor had given Price written permission to make medical decisions on his behalf, but wouldn't comment on specifics of his case.


"Look what happened to Terri Schiavo," said Price, referring to the controversial Florida right-to-life case. "I always think of her case when it comes to this."

She added: "I don't want people to be so hard on me thinking I had to pull the plug too early. He wouldn't have made it anyway. His heart would've just given out. I don't want people to sit there and think I'm a bitch, and that I didn't care about him."

Price also addressed speculation that she had something to do with the accident that caused his brain hemorrhage: "A lot of people sit there and say, yeah, she pushed him. People are so cruel, they don't even know. I was upstairs, he was downstairs. How am I going to push him? Why would I want to hurt my husband, are you kidding?

Price adds that Coleman looked out for her while they were together: "He's done a lot for me, he bought me a car, which he chose to do, which I never asked him for. I thought that was very sweet of him to do that."

Funeral plans are still pending, according to a spokeswoman for Price.

http://www.etonline.com/news/2010/06/87888/index.html?

Gary Coleman's Estranged Parents Seeking Custody of His Remains

The estranged parents of late star Gary Coleman are reportedly seeking custody of his remains.

The Associated Press reports that Coleman's parents want his body returned to his childhood home in Illinois.

Victor Perillo, Coleman's former manager and the family spokesperson, told the AP Thursday that Coleman's parents have legal custody of his remains since he divorced wife Shannon Price in 2008.

"The arrangement we're working on now is to get Gary back to his next of kin, which [are] his parents. The funeral home has been notified, the sheriff's office -- we've notified them that there is to be no communication on where the body is to go unless it's dealt with legally with Gary's next of kin, and that's the way it stands right now," Perillo told the Associated Press on Thursday.

ET broke the news of Coleman's 2008 divorce on Wednesday and exclusively obtained the divorce papers, which referred to the parties as "John Doe" and "Jane Doe."

Last week, Sue and Willie Coleman told People magazine they were searching for answers in the death of their son, from whom they have been estranged for more than 10 years.

"We would've loved to have been there by his side at the hospital, to let him know we love him before he passed away," Sue told People. "This is a shock to us. We loved Gary very much. We're going to miss him."

Coleman, who became famous after starring on the '80s sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes," passed away at age 42 last Friday after suffering an intracranial hemorrhage and being taken off life support. It is believed that it was Price who took Coleman off life support. The Utah hospital where the star died told ET in part, "Mr. Coleman had completed an Advanced Health Care Directive that granted Shannon Price permission to make medical decisions on his behalf if he was unable to do so."

This story just keeps getting weirder and weirder. I wouldn't trust either the parents OR the ex-wife to make any of the decisions!!!! He should have asked Paul Petersen - he seemed to genuinely care about Gary as a friend and as a human being. :(

Here's another article on these stories.

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b184092_parents_fight_gary_colemans_remains.html

Parents to Fight for Gary Coleman's Remains as Todd Bridges Announces "Secret Will"

Today 3:45 PM PDT by Josh Grossberg
Gary Coleman Michael Loccisano/Getty Images

A secret will is what Willis is talking 'bout.

Adding to the bizarre circumstances surrounding his TV brother's death, Todd Bridges has come out with the surprise announcement that he is in possession of a document purporting to contain the final wishes of Gary Coleman.

"[A friend of mine and I] have paperwork, and we'll bring it out soon, that will show what his wishes were and what he wanted," Bridges said in an interview with Entertainment Tonight. "There's a big fight going on with his parents and some other people involved, and after we bring this paperwork out, everybody's going to shut up."

"Everybody" presumably includes Coleman's ex-wife, Shannon Price, as well as his estranged parents—all of whom made waves with their comments today.

"Gary had certain wishes [to exclude his parents]. I'm not going to go against a dying man's wishes," Bridges continued. "There's a reason why he didn't speak to them for 23 years."

In 1989, Coleman successfully sued his parents and a former business adviser for misappropriating his multimillion-dollar trust fund from his Diff'rent Strokes days.

But the estragement hasn't prevented Sue and Willie Coleman from inserting themselves into what may be a fight over the late actor's body and putting a question mark on his funeral—currently scheduled for Saturday in Utah.

Days after calling for an investigation into his death, the Colemans have hired an attorney in Salt Lake City and are planning to seek custody of their son's remains for burial in his native Zion, Ill.

Coleman's ex-manager, Victor Perillo, speaking on the parents' behalf, said the fact the former child star was secretly divorced from wife Price means they are the legal custodians of Coleman's remains and not her—even though Price had the final say on whether to take Gary off life support, and gave the final order to do so.

"All they want is for their son to come home, which is all they wanted for years before their son got taken away from them by a group of people who think they own actors," Perillo told E! News Thursday.

"The Colemans are not attacking anybody, all they want is his body back," he said. "There has been a lot in the press about how they stole money, but they never stole a dime."

According to Perillo, it was Coleman's former accountant who was the real target of his animosity.

"It was the accountant/business manager, not his parents," Perillo said, "but all we hear is that [Sue and Willie] took money from the kid. Meanwhile, two months after Diff'rent Strokes is off the air, they went back to work. Sue is a nurse and Will works in a factory. They have been working for 22 years. Where is all this money they supposedly stole? They have lost him twice: First, when people took him away at 19, and now they lose him at death and these people are still fighting for him."

"We want his legacy to be about his magnificent talent and not this nonsense," Perillo added.

Also today, Prince defended her decision to allow doctors to take Coleman off life support. In an interview with TMZ, she said that once Coleman had lapsed into a coma after suffering an intracranial hemorrhage in a fall in their Utah home, she believed there was no hope.

"I don't want people to be so hard on me thinking that I had to pull the plug too early. He wouldn't have made it anyway. His heart would have just given out," she said. "But you know, be in my situation. I mean look what happened with Terri Schiavo. I always think of her case—always when it comes to this.

"I mean Gary was gone. His eyes were dilated. He wasn't...he was just gone."

Bridges, meanwhile, said that his former pal had recently had heart surgery, in addition to a history of kidney problems and seizures, and asked fans to remember Coleman kindly, despite his sometimes troubled adulthood.

"Imagine having major health problems. Imagine getting ripped off of all your money. Imagine being raised in a household where he wasn't taught how to love himself or to love others around him," said Bridges. "So when he hit the world at an adult age, he wasn't prepared."

Coleman died last Friday. He was just 42.

This story just keeps getting weirder and weirder. I wouldn't trust either the parents OR the ex-wife to make any of the decisions!!!! He should have asked Paul Petersen - he seemed to genuinely care about Gary as a friend and as a human being. :(
I'm with you Monika! I don't trust Shannon or Gary's parents either. It's too bad Gary didn't keep in closer contact with his Diff'rent Strokes co-stars. I suspect Todd Bridges would have been a lot more help to Gary at the end than Shannon was! :mad:

This story just keeps getting weirder and weirder. I wouldn't trust either the parents OR the ex-wife to make any of the decisions!!!! He should have asked Paul Petersen - he seemed to genuinely care about Gary as a friend and as a human being. :(
I wouldn't either. It looks like Gary never had anyone who had his back his entire life. No wonder he turned out the way he did.

I'm with you Monika! I don't trust Shannon or Gary's parents either. It's too bad Gary didn't keep in closer contact with his Diff'rent Strokes co-stars. I suspect Todd Bridges would have been a lot more help to Gary at the end than Shannon was! :mad:
It looks like Gary was in some kind of contact with Todd if Todd has his secret will.

It looks like Gary was in some kind of contact with Todd if Todd has his secret will.
I'll be very interested to see what Todd has to say about that on E.T. tonight!

I still want to know what happened in the kitchen

I'll be very interested to see what Todd has to say about that on E.T. tonight!

He said that Gary didn't want a funeral

I still want to know what happened in the kitchen



This is going to end up being like the cases of James Brown and Michael Jackson, where the parties involved didn't or wouldn't come to a decision on their final resting places!

Gary will also probably be held in limbo until he's buried. Somewhere. :eek:

Hold on, I thought Coleman did not have any contact, WHATSOEVER, with his DS co-stars in recent years. How did Todd Bridges gain hold of his "secret will"?

This is extremely strange. Maybe it's a will from when they were in contact and therefore is no longer legitimate. 1989 is 21 years ago, Bridges said he hadn't been in contact with his parents for 23 years. Some of this just isn't adding up.

And, I agree, I'd still like to know what happened in that kitchen.

If there is no faulty/dirty business here, can someone tell me, is it physically possible that an intracranial hemorrage can cause you to bleed EXTERNALLY at such an intense and quick rate? I don't seem to understand.

Hold on, I thought Coleman did not have any contact, WHATSOEVER, with his DS co-stars in recent years. How did Todd Bridges gain hold of his "secret will"?

This is extremely strange. Maybe it's a will from when they were in contact and therefore is no longer legitimate. 1989 is 21 years ago, Bridges said he hadn't been in contact with his parents for 23 years. Some of this just isn't adding up.

And, I agree, I'd still like to know what happened in that kitchen.

If there is no faulty/dirty business here, can someone tell me, is it physically possible that an intracranial hemorrage can cause you to bleed EXTERNALLY at such an intense and quick rate? I don't seem to understand.
I agree 100%. I had a dear friend who died of a brain hemorrhage at the age of 35 and there was no external bleeding. He collapsed on a Wednesday afternoon and died just after midnight the next morning, and wasn't even on life support (that I know of). His parents were right by his side.

I still have no idea how Todd has access to Gary's will - and the number of years they hadn't been in touch seems to vary from minute to minute. I do know for a fact that they were photographed together at Dana's funeral - which was 11 years ago.

The way I understand it Gary had two separate injuries from his fall. The first was a gash on the back of his head. This would be the injury that was responsible for the large blood loss at the accident scene. The second injury was the intracranial hemmorage that caused him to lose consciousness and be put on life support. These were two separate and distinct injuries. One external and the other internal. At least that's how I understand it from everything I've read.

Also there was a Diff'rent Strokes movie a few years ago with other actors portraying the cast. In the very last scene of that movie the real Todd and Gary are shown visiting Dana's grave.

Your analysis makes sense, Marv, but I still find HOW he fell suspicious. Usually a woman - be it girlfriend, lover, wife, whatever Shannon was - would be frantic had her beloved been in a position where she'd have to call 911. She sounded so cold, calculated and dispassionate in that call. I can't help but be suspicious.

Your analysis makes sense, Marv, but I still find HOW he fell suspicious. Usually a woman - be it girlfriend, lover, wife, whatever Shannon was - would be frantic had her beloved been in a position where she'd have to call 911. She sounded so cold, calculated and dispassionate in that call. I can't help but be suspicious.
Oh I agree. You would think when a woman's "significant other" is lying on the floor bleeding she would be only thinking about him and how she can help him and get him to the hospital etc. However Shannon seemed to be thinking mostly about herself and that just doesn't seem right.

But whatever the circumstances were now I really feel for Gary. It seemed as if no one really had his back and if they did, they sure as heck did an outstanding job putting that knife in his back.

In this case, Shannon had no excuse for letting her own condition stop her from helping her beloved one from going out the way he did.

And if his parents and/or Shannon are just in it for the $$$, then they all need to be struck down. And knowing Shannon in the last year or so, her motives seem quite questionable.

Hold on, I thought Coleman did not have any contact, WHATSOEVER, with his DS co-stars in recent years. How did Todd Bridges gain hold of his "secret will"?

This is extremely strange. Maybe it's a will from when they were in contact and therefore is no longer legitimate. 1989 is 21 years ago, Bridges said he hadn't been in contact with his parents for 23 years. Some of this just isn't adding up.

And, I agree, I'd still like to know what happened in that kitchen.

If there is no faulty/dirty business here, can someone tell me, is it physically possible that an intracranial hemorrage can cause you to bleed EXTERNALLY at such an intense and quick rate? I don't seem to understand.



Seems to be getting even stranger by the minute with these new twists & turns!

Authorities might have to try to piece together all of this, and sadly, it'll probably go all the way back to the time when Gary was a just little boy around the time that he began playing Arnold on Strokes.

Or back to when his parents had first adopted him when he was a baby. :eek: