TMZ is reporting today that Shannon Price is behind the deathbed photos being shopped around for five figures. Read the story here. There is more here. I will be watching the mainstream media to see if they pick up this story. Thanks, Alma, for the update.
Update: KSNT has picked up the story at 1:44 PM.
Read my review of Shannon Price’s interview with GMA today here.
Photo Gary Coleman and Shannon Price’s home.
Shannon Price on Good Morning America June 7, 2010
Shannon Price did another interview and again, she is setting off alarms in my head. This time she is shown in a wheelchair and stays put in that wheelchair through the entire interview. Shannon also talks about her seizures, “As you guys know, I recently have seizures.” The word “recently” really stood out to me.
Read moreAt one point during the interview, she had to stop, because she thought she might be having a seizure. Interestingly enough, watch the footage ABC shows. She doesn’t stay put when she fears one is coming on. She gets up! Isn’t that ironic? Wouldn’t she be afraid she’d fall? I would think medical advice would be to stay put, in a sitting position, if you fear a seizure coming on.
GMA asks Shannon what happened the day Gary fell and she says, “I asked him if he could make me some food, and he went downstairs and I heard this big smack. I rushed down there and I found him lying in a pool of blood.”
The “pool of blood” is something she never mentioned in the 911 call at all. It’s new information. Also, if Shannon rushed down as she said, would the blood already be pooling in a matter of seconds to a minute? I am not an expert, but I would be curious what an expert would say.
Also, if Gary was unconscious as she first said, how was he laying? Was he laying back on his head where he hit it? If so, could she have seen the blood pooling then?
GMA plays a part of Shannon’s 911 call where she sounds cold and callous and Shannon replies, “You know, I was with him there the whole time. I was trying to find towels and stuff like that, but yeah, seeing him in a pool of blood was difficult, I mean, you know, um….if it was someone else in my situation, I mean… I’m sure they wouldn’t know what to do either.”
She was with him the whole time? Does she have a selective memory? I remember clearly how she was talking to Roxie the dog and said to Roxie, “Come on” as in “Let’s go” when she said she couldn’t stand seeing the blood. It was then that she yelled at Gary, “What’s wrong?!”.
Shannon explains the divorce away by saying “It wasn’t what we wanted, we just had a disagreement…”. Does anyone believe her? She also talks about how they wanted to renew their vows, but didn’t due to health issues, but supposedly planned to soon. This is new information, too, according to GMA.
Another time Shannon says in an angry tone about her relationship, “We loved each other. It was golden”. Watch her squint her eyes in anger! She does this several times in interview. This woman is incapable of expressing sadness, sorrow, love or any emotion of sympathy for her ex-husband. It’s flat out bone chilling.
When asked about her financial situation, Shannon says, “You know….We’ve been struggling… a lot… with financial stuff, but now that he is gone, its a little more difficult.”
What?
Does that make sense?? Nothing would have changed for her if Gary wasn’t working from last week to this week. However, if she was somehow involved in Gary’s death, could she be thinking, “…now that Gary is gone, its gonna be a little easier”? This is awful to think about, but that would make her statement, which doesn’t make sense, make sense! Chilling to think about…
Gary Coleman’s parents have wanted to talk to Price, but she hasn’t been willing. Shannon says, “Well my brother called them…um… and talk to the mother, and said, if you have any questions, let me know and she didn’t really say anything, so…”
I was stunned at how Shannon referred to Gary mother, even with them being estranged, as “the mother”. It is so removed and cold and the fact that she won’t speak to his parents is flat out heartless. Why can’t she do that?
Shannon says, “…I just hope Gary is happy and he is in a better place, and he is not suffering anymore, you know, with all the health issues he’s had over the years. I’m just happy, you know, that he’s finally peaceful and at rest. We have discussed death a few times and he said it would be very unfair if he left me…all of the sudden… and … I mean…. I really respect that, you know, because I loved him and he loved me, and you know, we just can’t live without each other.”
These words of Shannon’s jump out at me: “I’m just happy, you know, he’s finally peaceful and at rest.” She doesn’t talk about how he suffered at the end. Instead she talks about how he had all these health issues over the years! Is that why she is happy he is finally peaceful? As if his life was hell and it needed to end? Is that what she thinks? The connection of these two thoughts are eerie.
I could understand her talking about how horrific Gary’s last day was due to complications of his injuries, but to relate it back to his health issues he had over the years, you have to wonder if they were grating on her nerves. It’s horrifying to think about. Did she want to be free of Gary and saw no other way? By the way Shannon’s thoughts are revealed, you can’t help but question this.
In the interview, Shannon told GMA off camera that Gary didn’t want a funeral or to be buried. He wanted to be cremated. The media reports that Gary had a will. I wonder if that will be in there, or if this is just what Shannon wants…
To read all of my thoughts on Shannon, click on the label below. There is another chilling interview where she talks about what it is like to remove Gary from life support.
TMZ is reporting that the video interview I linked to yesterday of Shannon Price talking about pulling the plug on Gary was recorded the day after Gary died. Isn’t that a shocker??
And today they have photos of Price with an agent that worked with Price and Coleman. TMZ reports these photos were taken about the same time as the video– the day after Gary’s death. Check it out. She is all smiles!! And if you look, the one on the right is absolutely genuine –its called a Duchenne smile. See the crows feet? Notice how big her grin is (you see more white teeth)? She couldn’t be more happy, if you asked me.
It’s flat out haunting.
And there is more video of Shannon talking about how she is struggling to pay for funeral costs. She’s really trying to act down here because she needs money and she complains Gary was never able to have life insurance because of his health problems. Poor Shannon–she must have looked into it.
This woman is scary. She goes on to say that she hopes Gary’s fans are compassionate enough to donate to cover for his funeral and she hopes you’ll pay her way, too, now that Gary is gone. He wasn’t bringing any money home lately, anyway, did you hear? All of the fun money was gone, so did that make Gary useless to her?
This story is hard to watch.
I just looked closer at the 911 call made by Shannon Price when Gary Coleman was mortally injured. She is an interesting person because she is so cold, callous and unwilling to help Gary. It stands out like a sore thumb. Instead of helping him, she’d rather talk about how she is sick, how she can’t be traumatized, how if she is stressed she will seize, how she can’t help him because he is lethargic, etc. It’s nauseating.
Read moreWhat stands out to me in this 911 call outside of her callousness, is her lack of details about what happened. In the beginning when she talks to the operator, she says:
“Um…um….I just found my… ah..I just had my husband go make me something downstairs, he just got home, I heard this big bang. I went downstairs. Blood everywhere.”
Yet later, she says:
Head is bloody. There’s blood all over the floor. I don’t know what happened. I really don’t know what happened. I just heard this bang and I went down there, and he is on the floor and I….
In her third recollection, she recalls different details:
I just asked him, “Can you go make me some food, you know, and he’s like yeah, yeah, and I….and he hit his head and I don’t know…I know its from his head, though, cuz I looked at the back of his head, and its all bloody and gross and, you know.
And here is her last recollection:
I don’t know if he had a seizure, I don’t know if he just hit his head and fell, cuz I mean he was kind of like… he wasn’t like convulsing or anything.
How come one time she has a clear recollection and the another times she doesn’t know anything? In the third version, there is absolutely no recall about Gary going down the stairs. This is highly notable. In the third version, she also seems to know conclusively he hit his head, too. How does she know that all of the sudden?
She also has a notable amount of false starts…that is she starts to say something and then stops, pauses and changes what she is about to say. In her first version of events, she says, “Um…um….I just found my… ah..I just had my husband go make me something…” In her third recollection, she starts to say “and I…and he hit his head.” I wonder what she self-censored out here? In the last version of what happened, she almost tells us what he was like… but stops herself. Why?
Why doesn’t she describe any of the details of hearing the bang, calling out for Gary, asking if he is okay, not getting a response and running down to find him in a pool of blood? Why are all these details missing?
You would think this would all stand out in her mind, because many people hear bangs and call out and ask a loved one, “Are you okay?” And when we don’t hear a response, we jump up to investigate. Our heart skips a beat until we know things are okay! How many times have you experienced a false alarm and gotten mad at your spouse for the lack of a response–for making you worry needlessly? We remember the lack of a response, but Shannon doesn’t. Why? This time it wasn’t a false alarm!!
How did Shannon know it was so serious without calling out? I mean, wasn’t she sick in bed? As she tells us she could barely stand, but she quickly ran down to check on Gary without calling out? I’m not buying it. You don’t forget these details, when you are honest. She might condense them at times, but she wouldn’t entirely change the facts, would she?
I also would expect her to have emotions of a person who discovered this gruesome scene. I would expect to hear shock, fear, terror, etc., but I don’t. Why?
All of the details of what happened are eerily missing. Shannon gives us tidbits, but nothing of substances. It’s highly notable.
I am stunned by the lack of emotional stress, too. Her voice is devoid of any fear, stress or concern. It’s lackluster considering her circumstances. I would expect her to have some form of an adrenaline rush, but I hear nothing. I heard a little heavy breathing early on, but that dissipated quickly. I hear her talk as if she is almost bored at times, and other times it appears as if she is whining and others she sounds angry and frustrated. I would not expect to hear that from a partner who just found their significant other in a pool of blood, unconscious, as she says.
Then later, when she tells us he is moving around and again, we don’t hear any hope, excitement, surprise, stun — nothing. It’s highly notable. It’s almost as if she is complaining about it. She says, “He’s just sitt’n there. He’s sitting up now up now…” as if it is no big deal! The word just jumps out at me like a waving flag.
The way she says her name when the operator asks for it, it is unbelievable. It’s like she is giving her name out for winning the lottery! It blew me away. She sounds almost chipper! You’d never know just hearing this that she was in the middle of a life and death crisis. It’s like she flipped a lid on her behavior, for a second. People who are panicked, afraid, or fearful don’t do this…
I also noted that she didn’t use pronouns when she described things– in the key time she should have a clear memory and when details should be there: “Head is bloody”–“Blood is everywhere.” People who are often deceptive leave off pronouns. I’ve seen it many times.
Next, she tells the operator she can’t help Gary for a variety of reasons, but one excuse is because if she gets stressed out she will have a seizure. Yet she had no problem, though, looking at the back of Gary’s bloody head. She says, “I know its from his head, though, cuz I looked at the back of his head, and its all bloody and gross and, you know.” Why didn’t that stress her? She also didn’t seem to have any stress going back to Gary several times. Isn’t that inconsistent?
Why does she yell at Gary, “What’s wrong?” as if he is perfectly fine? It’s like he is annoying her by doing something. She tells us she thinks he might die, and then she yells what’s wrong at him?? You hear anger in her voice when she says this. Why is she angry with him? Is that how you would feel if your loved one is gravely injured? She does not love this man or care if he dies, frankly. I don’t think it takes any special talent to see this.
The timing of when she tells us Gary’s wound is on the back his head is questionable, too. I was shocked she knew this information because she told us she couldn’t handle being with Gary, but yet she strangely knew where his injury was. If he was all bloody and bleeding all over, how would she know where the injury was–especially if she couldn’t handle the blood? Wouldn’t she be afraid if she looked, she seize? Also, when did she discover this??? We never heard. Why? I would think that would be traumatic to see that, wouldn’t you? In the first part of the 911 call, she didn’t seem to know, then all of the sudden she did, yet we hear no trauma in between of discovering this. It’s very strange!
Here are the excuses Shannon uses when she is asked to help Gary:
Operator: Is there any way you can go down there at all?
Price: ….I’ll try, I don’t know, I mean…I can’t….
Operator: Can you tell him to try to put pressure on the back of his head?
Price: No, can’t. It’s like all bloody and I’m not trying to do….He…He’s not with it.
Do these support a woman who is concerned about someone who is injured?
I also found this statement very odd, “I’m just panicked. I don’t know what to do…I’m dragg’n (?). I just frick’n.…crazy person….hold on….” Why does she have all these false starts? Why does she say I just frick’n…What did she just do to call herself a crazy person? I don’t even want to guess…
When I listen to this 911 call, my alarm bells are blaring that something isn’t right. There are too many things that don’t add up, that don’t support what Shannon wants us to believe — that Gary accidentally fell and she has no clue what happened. Shannon’s behavioral evidence (my new term) suggests she knows more than she is telling us…. She is flat out inconsistent on too many levels to be believable, unless she is flat out mentally ill and unstable.
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Shannon Price, Gary Coleman’s ex-wife who still resided with him, speaks out to TMZ (thanks, Celebitchy for the lead) and talks about her decision to pull the plug on Gary Coleman, who allegedly fell and then died last Thursday. I warn you she is beyond chilling!
Read moreWhen I watch Price, I am instantly reminded of Stacey Castor who was featured on 20/20 last week and who is known as the “black widow”. It’s something about their demeanor. They share a similar coldness.
Price gives off serious indications of someone who doesn’t know or even understand what empathy is. There isn’t a tear in her eye when she talks about pulling the plug on Coleman. Her eyes aren’t puffy and she is even animated in her chat with TMZ, which does not support a person who is grieving. She talks about Gary as if he were a piece of meat, not a human life about to be extinguished. I thought Michael Schiavo was cold, but she makes him look hot, warm and fuzzy!
Price says, “I’ve had a lot of people say, ‘yeah, she pushed him’, this and that, you know people are so cruel, they don’t even know! I was upstairs, he was downstairs [expression of disgust]. How am I going to push him?”
This is ludicrous. We do not know where she was when this happened. All we have is her word, which I wouldn’t put one cent on, frankly. She is colder than a nail in a freezer. Her emotions do not match her situation one iota!
Price says, “Why would I hurt my husband? Are you kidding?”
Is this supposed to convince us? It does nothing for me, whatsoever.
Listen to Price try to convince us that Gary was going to die or be useless no matter what was done. The way she talks about him is almost freakish.
Price says:
You know, the doctors told us, even if they did surgery on him, he would have died. He would have bled to death during the surgery. And they said even if they did take a chunk out of his brain, he would not be the same. He would be basically be like… Muhammad Ali. He wouldn’t be, you know…and….and…I mean he would have died sooner or later anyway from that… because its so..because the brain, it so traumatic.
I don’t want people to be so hard on me thinking that, you know, I had to pull the plug too early. He wouldn’t have made it anyway, his heart would have just given out……..and I don’t want people to think that I’m a BITCH, and that I didn’t care about him, but you know, be in my situation. I mean look what happened with Terri Schiavo. I always think of her case when it comes to this. I mean, I mean Gary was gone, his eyes were dilated, he wasn’t, you know, he wasn’t…he was just gone (shoulder shrug)…and he’s done a lot for me. He bought me a car…
This woman is cold, cunning, and creepy. She is very off and needs to be looked at with a magnifying glass!
