Attorney says Coleman, wife divorced in 2008
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – New details surrounding TV actor Gary Coleman's death have emerged with his attorney saying the child star of 'Diff'rent Strokes' and his wife divorced in 2008, and Utah authorities releasing a tape of her frantic emergency call after he struck his head in a fall.
Coleman died from a brain haemorrhage on Friday, two days after the 911 call. He was taken off life support, but it's not clear who made that decision.
Coleman's attorney Randy Kester said he does not know.
"Now issues are being raised about whether or not Shannon had authority to terminate the life support," he said. A spokeswoman with Utah Valley Regional Medical Center said she cannot release any additional information about Coleman's death. Kester said that Coleman and Shannon Price divorced in August 2008 and Coleman never told him the two had remarried.
Price can be heard asking a Utah emergency dispatcher to send help for Coleman, who was bleeding from the back of his head and "bubbling at the mouth" after falling at his Santaquin home, about 55 miles south of Salt Lake City.
"I just don't want him to die," Price tells the female dispatcher during the nearly six-minute call.