EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Gary Coleman's Pals Bashed For Excluding Ex-Wife From Memorial
July 8 2010, Published 8:50 a.m. ET
Gary Coleman's friends are being slammed for excluding his ex-wife Shannon Price from a memorial service honoring the Diff'rent Strokes actor, Breaking Celebrity News has exclusively learned.
In fact, the day before Coleman suffered the fall that proved to be fatal, he begged Price's spokesperson Sheila Erickson to help Price be successful and to take care of her. Erickson told Breaking Celebrity News in an exclusive interview that excluding Price from the Friday memorial is not what Gary would have wanted.
Coleman’s former manager Robert Malcolm told Breaking Celebrity News in an exclusive interview Wednesday that Price is not invited to the memorial and it “is for people who can look into each other’s faces and remember the good.”
However, Erickson told Breaking Celebrity News exclusively, “It’s really sad. It breaks my heart. I know Gary is looking down asking, ‘Does anything I say matter?’
“What’s so funny is the day before Gary fell he kept repeating himself to me like four or five times a day, ‘Help Shannon be successful, take care of Shannon.’ These people say they loved Gary, but they’re not doing what Gary wanted. It’s only for themselves.”
The ceremony will be a small intimate group of friends and will be private—just as Gary wished.
“They’re alienating her,” Erickson told Breaking Celebrity News. “Gary fulfilled the most important thing in his life before he died and that was having a fulfilling relationship with Shannon and it’s so sad that she’s being ostracized because she’s the one person Gary loved the most.”
If invited, Shannon would definitely attend, Erickson said.