Gary Coleman’s Ex Shannon Price Addresses Documentary Claims About Her Alleged Involvement in Actor’s Death

Mar. 15, 2025

Shannon Price (left) and Gary Coleman on NBC News Today in February 2008.Photo:Ali Goldstein/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal/Getty

Ali Goldstein/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal/Getty

Gary Coleman’s ex wifeShannon Priceis speaking out after the late actor’s loved ones alleged she was involved in his death in the Peacock documentaryGARY.

Price shared in an interview withInside Edition, which aired on Monday, Feb. 17, that the allegations made against her in regards to Coleman’s death in the 2024 Peacock documentary were “horrible.”

“I did not hurt him,” she said. “I have nothing to hide.”

TheDiff’rent Strokesstardied at the age of 42, in May 2010, after falling inside his Utah home that he shared with Price — who he had wed in August 2007 and divorced a year later — and suffering an intracranial hemorrhage. He was transported to the hospital and placed in a medically-induced coma, where his condition worsened before he was eventually removed from life support.

Shannon Price, ex-wife of actor Gary Coleman, in 2010.Stuart Johnson-Pool/Getty

Stuart Johnson-Pool/Getty

“You know, I did help him,” Price said. “I actually had to run around looking for a towel because we didn’t have any in the downstairs bathroom.”

“What people have to understand and realize is this is the first real traumatic situation I ever had to witness,” she explained.

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Price claimed in the documentary that she was in bed when she asked him to make her food after he got home from dialysis. After hearing a “big loud boom,” she said she found Coleman in a pool of blood on the kitchen floor.

Moret noted that Coleman’s friends “point the finger at” Price when it comes to the child actor’s death — which was touched on in theGARYdocumentary. However, she has denied any wrongdoing, saying in the doc that she “would never hurt my husband, ever.”

A photo of Gary Coleman (left) and Shannon Price.Victor Spinelli/WireImage

Victor Spinelli/WireImage

When asked if she felt like she was “being made the villain here,” Coleman’s ex-wife said, “Yeah, of course.”

“When you’re pointing the fingers at me, you better make sure your hands are clean,” she continued, adding that the police report and Coleman’s death certificate showed that she didn’t do anything wrong.

In 2010, Santaquin Police Chief Dennis Howard told PEOPLE that “there wasabsolutely nothing suspiciousabout [Coleman’s] death” and “there was “no [criminal] investigation going on.” Coleman’s death certificate also listed his manner of death as an “accident.”

GARYis available for stream on Peacock.

source: people.com