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.

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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.

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