“Dialysis had taken a lot out of him that day,” Spence said. “He just wanted to go home, but he was pretty weak.”
Although Coleman underwent several dialysis sessions a week to help curb the kidney disease nephritis, which was responsible for stunting his growth, Spence claims the ‘Diff’rent Strokes’ actor “had no strength at all” when he returned home at around 3 PM on May 26.
That’s when Coleman, 42, slipped and hit his head, causing a one-inch gash.
Coleman was rushed to the hospital after the fall. The following day, a spokesman for the actor said that he was “conscious and lucid” upon his arrival at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo, Utah, but later slipped into a coma.
He will be laid to rest at the Lake Hills Mortuary in Sandy, Utah this weekend. His estranged parents Sue and Willie Coleman are expected to join his widow Shannon Price at the ceremony.
