His symptoms had gotten gradually worse - the cognitive decline, the impairment of movement in his left hand - but he’d had brain scans that turned up nothing. 11, 2014, it was only about six months into his ordeal. “Robin’s Wish,” which deals with the slow creep of Williams’ deterioration during the final months of his life, is a documentary that’s honest and scary, wrenching and moving. She remembers that Williams, in the midst of his paranoia, said, “I just want to reboot my brain.” “This was a typical night for us,” says Susan. He started sending him text messages, and since they weren’t returned (Mort, in all likelihood, was asleep), he took that as evidence that things were not okay. Susan also tells a story about how the night before they were planning to visit Mort Sahl, the classic comic who was a pal of Robin’s, Williams became obsessed, in the middle of the night, with the fear that Mort wasn’t okay. I’m not me anymore.” His mind, says Levy, “was not firing at the same speed. Shawn Levy, the “Night at the Museum” director, recalls Robin telling him, “I don’t know what’s going on. That wasn’t a problem he’d ever had before, and given that he was one of the most mentally nimble people ever created, you can see how disturbing this might have been. He was having a panic attack over the fact that he couldn’t remember his lines at times, he was having trouble remembering even one line of dialogue. Robin called her from Vancouver, where he was shooting the third “Night at the Museum” film, and he couldn’t calm himself down. LOS ANGELES () - In “Robin’s Wish,” a documentary about the last days of Robin Williams, the comedian’s widow, Susan Schneider Williams, recalls one of the first times that she could tell something was seriously off.
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