VIDEO: Gary Coleman's Wife: "I Would Take My Own Life Before Harming Him"
June 7 2010, Published 1:41 p.m. ET
The controversy over Gary Coleman’s death continues, with his ex-wife Shannon Price defending her actions and claiming in a new interview that she would take her own life before harming him.
She also gave some details for the first time the circumstances surrounding how the Diff’rent Strokes actor hit his head – the accident that caused his intracranial hemorrhage.
Asked what she had to say in response to people who believe she pushed Gary, Price said: “I would never hurt my husband ever. I would take my own life before I would harm him.” Price made her comments to ABC’s Good Morning America in an interview taped Sunday and aired Monday.
She also revealed this about the events leading up to Gary’s fall: “I asked him if he could make me some food and he went downstairs and I heard this big smack. I rushed down there and found him lying in a pool of blood.”
Other highlights include Price claiming the couple had a “golden” relationship and that they were going to get remarried, even though they were secretly divorced.
As ABC played the 911 tape, which you can listen to here on Breaking Celebrity News, Price is heard saying: “I can’t be here with the blood…I got blood on myself. I can’t deal.”
While those words seem to contradict the impression of the loving wife she is presenting in her new interview, Price explained: “You know I was with him the whole time. I was trying to find towels, stuff like that.
“Seeing him in a pool of blood was difficult. If it was somebody else in my situation I’m sure they wouldn’t know what to do either.”
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