The late Gary Coleman’s ex-wife Shannon Price -whom he sought a restraining order against – is speaking out about the Diff’rent Strokes star’s death.
It is the first interview she’s given since the documentary Gary was released last year, which reignited the controversy surrounding Coleman’s 2010 death aged 42- and even alleged the former child star may have been murdered by his own wife.
Price has consistently denied these claims, saying last August: ‘I didn’t touch him…nothing happened.’
In a new interview with Inside Edition Price doubled down on her denials, adding: ‘When you’re pointing the fingers at me, you better make sure your hands are clean’ before recounting the day of his accident.
Coleman was once the most popular child star in America, starring on the beloved sitcom ‘Diff’rent Strokes alongside Todd Bridges and Dana Plato.
He captivated America with his small stature, adorable good looks and catchphrase, ‘What’chu talkin’ ’bout, Willis?’
The late Gary Coleman’s ex-wife Shannon Price -whom he sought a restraining order against – is speaking out about the Diff’rent Strokes star’s death. Seen here in 2008
The beloved former child star met Price, a movie extra, in 2006. He married her the following year in Nevada when she was 22 and he was 39-years-old.
Not long after they married, things turned violent and they divorced in 2007.
When Coleman suffered the fall that led to his death in 2010 at age 42, Price was still living in his home in Provo, Utah.
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She was the one who called 911 and was told to apply pressure to the wound.
‘We hear the 9-1-1 call. The operators say, “Can you touch him?” and you said, “No, I don’t want to touch him.”
‘Why didn’t you try to help Gary after he fell?’ Inside Edition’s Chief Correspondent Jim Moret asked Price.
‘You know, I did help him. I actually had to run around looking for a towel because we didn’t have any in the downstairs bathroom,’ Price said.
‘What people have to understand and realize is this is the first real traumatic situation I ever had to witness.’
She said the night of the accident, the police wrote there was ‘nothing suspicious’ about the actor’s death on their report and Coleman’s death certificate lists the manner of death as an accident.
It is the first interview she’s given since the documentary Gary was released and reignited the controversy surrounding Coleman’s death and her role in it
‘When you’re pointing the fingers at me, you better make sure your hands are clean,’ Price told Inside Edition
Coleman was once the most popular child star in America, starring on the beloved sitcom ‘Diff’rent Strokes alongside Todd Bridges and Dana Plato
Coleman died two days after the fall from a brain hemorrhage and cardiac arrest.
Coleman tried to get a restraining order against his ex-wife just three months before he died
In the court document, the actor alleged that Price was trespassing in his Santaquin home while he was hospitalized following a heart surgery.
Coleman asked the court to forcibly remove Price from the home.
He admitted in the papers, obtained by RadarOnline.com that before and after his marriage: ‘There have been incidences of domestic violence.’
After Gary’s death, his close friends believed that Price was responsible for his death, especially his ex-girlfriend Anna Gray.
‘I think Price’s actions speak volumes, and I don’t have to say much more than that,’ Anna said in the documentary, referring to the fact that Price wouldn’t touch him as he lay bleeding.
Price’s actions were further criticized when she didn’t go to the hospital with Gary on the night of his accident.
Two days later, she made the choice to pull the plug on the life support he was on, which, his friends claim, were against Coleman’s written wishes.
And even more egregiously, Price allegedly took a death bed photo of Coleman and sold it, which one of his friends called ‘depraved.’
‘We were absolutely stumped, because there were way too many questions with no answers,’ Gary’s friend Dion Mial said.
The beloved former child star met Price, a movie extra, in 2006. He married her the following year in Nevada when she was 22 and he as 39-years-old. Seen here in 2008
Close friends Darren Nord and Brandi Buys also called the incident ‘suspicious.’
The documentary delved into Coleman’s troubled past, including claims his parents swiped millions of his earnings.
Before his death, the actor was also hospitalized for the third time in one year, after suffering multiple seizures.
The 4ft 8in star’s growth was stunted by a congenital kidney defect and he had also had two kidney transplants.