Gary Coleman Life Support Decision Explained by Ex-Wife Shannon Price
In the hush of twilight corridors, tragedy and duty entwine in an elegy of heartache and resolve. A wannabe poet might wax on the fragile thread of life—yet here, facts stand firmer than any verse. More than fifteen years after Gary Coleman’s untimely fall in May 2010, his ex-wife Shannon Price finally unveils the anguished rationale behind halting life support, thirteen days shy of his own written wish for extended care.
Coleman, the beloved star of Diff’rent Strokes, suffered an intracranial hemorrhage and, after only two days on machines, Price made the heartrending decision to let him slip away. In her debut on A&E’s Lie Detector: Truth or Deception (People), the 39-year-old recounts commanding doctors to resuscitate her husband when cardiac arrest struck, only to confront the unyielding evidence of his fading spark. “I had no choice,” she confesses, voice steady as marble, invoking CNN’s court documents that revealed Coleman’s last will had specified a minimum fifteen-day life-support period “in extreme circumstances.”
Yet Price found herself at the crossroads of medical inevitability and legal mandate. She recalls gazing into Coleman’s dilated eyes—an irreversible silence that no plea or procedure could reverse. “I made the right decision. He was basically already gone,” she insists, leaning on medical assessments that foretold his demise. It was a decision rooted in love, not haste—a portrait of compassion sketched in diagnostic scans and whispered at his bedside.
But even the noblest act courts suspicion when a public figure is involved. Skeptics whispered of ulterior motives, swirling rumors about Price’s role in the fatal slip. To silence doubt, she took the polygraph challenge under examiner George Olivo’s steely gaze. When asked if she had physically caused the fall that felled Coleman, Price answered flatly, “No”—though the machine flagged “deception indicated.” Tonight’s episode promises to dissect that tense exchange, inviting viewers to judge the intersection of grief, guilt, and public curiosity.
This saga—etched in hospital charts and legal briefs—stirs questions about autonomy and obligation. Could any spouse bear the weight of another’s final hours without reproach? As A&E pitches viewers into Price’s world on Lie Detector: Truth or Deception, we glimpse a soul besieged by love’s cruelest trials.
And so the tale drifts between compassion and controversy, ink drying on yet another chapter of human frailty. A bittersweet ending, or merely the beginning?
Sources: Celebrity Storm and People Magazine, CNN, A&E’s Lie Detector: Truth or Deception
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