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25 April 2024

Video: Robin Williams' touching final message for terminally-ill woman

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21-year-old terminally ill woman diagnosed with lung, bowel and liver cancer in January received a message of hope, support and "love" from none other than Oscar winning actor Robin Williams.

This is just as sad and as beautiful.

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Months before his recent suicide, Robin Williams recorded the video message for this New Zealand woman - Vivian Waller.

After Vivian was diagnosed in January with cancer, she included a meeting with Williams on a ‘bucket list’ of the things she hoped to achieve before she died, according to nydailynews.com.

Her condition deteriorated and she was too sick to travel from her native Auckland, New Zealand, to America, so one of her friends contacted the  63-year-old comedian and he agreed to record a short video clip which he emailed to the family a few months ago.

"Hi Vivian . . . it’s Robin Williams here saying, “Hey girl, what’s going on down there in New Zealand?"

"Sending all my love to you, Jack and Sophie," the beloved actor says in the video, "Mark this off your bucket list."

In the clip, Williams, a longtime impressionist, mimics a Kiwi accent as well as Matthew McConaughey and blows Waller a kiss.

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Vivian’s husband, Jack, whom she married in February, told stuff.co.nz that she was thrilled beyond belief with Williams’s message.

The items on her bucket list included watching her daughter, Sophie, celebrate her first birthday.

The newspaper added that she was too ill to travel to the United States and that the actor emailed her family the video earlier this year after her friend reached out to him.

Williams, 63, was found dead at his San Francisco mansion on Monday. Authorities said his death was suicide.

His death came after years of battling depression and anxiety, as well as an addiction to cocaine and alcohol.

In a statement after his death, Williams' wife, Susan Schneider, said the beloved comedy actor was also battling the early stages of Parkinson's disease when he took his life.

Since the actor's death, a number of people have come forward with inspiring stories about how he touched their lives.