Gary Coleman's ex-wife: 'He wouldn't have made it'

"The doctors told us that even if they had done surgery on him, he would've died," Gary Coleman's ex-wife, Shannon Price, explains to TMZ in an interview.

"He would've bled to death during the surgery. Even if they did take a chunk out of his brain, he would not be the same. He'd basically be like Muhammad Ali ... I mean, Gary was gone."



TMZ reports that documents show that Price and Coleman were divorced in 2008, but she had retained authority to make medical decisions for him if he was unable to. "I don't want people to be so hard on me thinking I had to pull the plug too early," she said. "He wouldn't have made it anyway. His heart would've just given out. I don't want people to sit there and think ... that I didn't care about him."

Price also acknowledges that people think she had a hand in the fall that led to Coleman's brain hemorrhage. "A lot of people sit there and say, yeah, 'she pushed him,'" she said. "People are so cruel, they don't even know. I was upstairs, he was downstairs. How am I going to push him? Why would I want to hurt my husband, are you kidding?"