CONTROVERSY: Gary Coleman's Parents Detail Ex-Wife's 'Disturbing' Behavior
Posted on Jun 11, 2010 @ 11:00AM
Gary Coleman's adoptive parents Sue and Willie Coleman opened up on Friday morning regarding the eerie phone call they received from his ex-wife Shannon Price and their thoughts on the photos she took of their son's death bed.
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Willie said that Shannon left a bizarre message on their voicemail when she finally returned their call a couple of days after they phoned about reports Gary had passed away. "[It was] the most strangest message I have heard in my life," Willie told Meredith Vieira on The Today Show. He described the message: "'Oh, hi, this is Shannon Price. Thank you for your inquiries... If you need more information my brother is handling the arrangements.' She left this number for us to call her brother."
Sue later addressed the controversy over the photos of Gary on his death bed, which many allege Shannon took for selfish reasons and sold to the highest bidder.
"That was disturbing," Sue said. "I don't know if that were her intentions in the beginning. I don't know if she was taking them for her own purpose and then later decided to do the sale of them."
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Having been estranged from their son for years, Sue and Willie once again addressed allegations that they took millions of Gary's money and mishandled his funds.
"As far as the money goes, we would never have taken money from him," Sue said. "We weren't raised that way. The way we were raised, you just don't do that to anybody...you just don't treat family that way." Willie claimed that Gary was being influenced by "outside interferers" who led him astray.
Sue was also adamant about debunking rumors that they hid Gary's adoption from him until he was basically an adult. "He was told. He didn't want to deal with it. And he asked us to please not discuss it. In later years when we were seeing the psychiatrist, it came up again...he never came up to us and ask why, what, who or why." Willie said the couple told Gary about his adoption when he was five years old.
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"He's been in my house since he was 4 days old. We loved him, we cared for him," a teary-eyed Willie said.
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The Daily Juice
Jun 11, 2010 @ 06:10
In the end of the action Gary filed against these two, there was no finding of fault. I don't expect somebody who is as nasty as all of you, to be able to GRASP that end. Sorry, I am sick of stupid housewives.
Posted Fri, 06/11/2010 - 5:57pm
This entire thread is full of the worst posters. Home all day, full of anger in general and have made spreading around this crap their life's work. UGH. It's a line up of ROL's worst.
Posted Fri, 06/11/2010 - 5:55pm
And Gary's so called Mother Sue is just as smug and cold as Shannon. She didn't share one tear or show any remorse or emotion whatsoever. U can look at her face and tell she is a heartless woman herself.
Posted Fri, 06/11/2010 - 4:11pm
BS! You can see the pain in her face. It's very clear you SEE what YOU WANT TO SEE here. I could not disagree MORE.
Posted Fri, 06/11/2010 - 5:54pm
Parents say they don't want his estate. They already robbed him of all his millions already. It was proven in court that U signed to transfer money out of his account just before his trust fund was turned over to him. Idiots .
Posted Fri, 06/11/2010 - 4:07pm
If they took his money (and Gary was an angry, confused person so he may have just been led to believe that), they are NO DIFFERENT than Khate Gosselin. How are they different? Making a living off kids. Period.
Posted Fri, 06/11/2010 - 3:55pm
Shannon only knew what Gary told her about them and GARY HATED HIS PARENTS. He told the world that many times. Todd Bridges claims they MADE Gary work when he was ill and it upset Todd to see him suffer on the set as a child.
Posted Fri, 06/11/2010 - 2:49pm
The msg wasn't odd - he hadn't seen these people in decades. It was nice of her to even return the call. No doubt it was an awkward call to make.
Posted Fri, 06/11/2010 - 1:44pm
What kind of parents pimp out a very young child with life threatening health issues? They deserve nothing but contempt and prosecution.
Posted Fri, 06/11/2010 - 1:05pm
So the parents and Shannon Price are each hoping to get Gary's pension and whatever estate he has. Both are opportunistic slimeballs.
Posted Fri, 06/11/2010 - 12:45pm