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The actress of “The Shining”, Shelley Duvall, He died on July 11 at the age of 75 and the cause of death was “complications of diabetes,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Duvall “died in his sleep” at his home in Blanco, Texas, his partner Dan Gilroy told The Hollywood Reporter.
The New York Times also confirmed through a family spokesperson that the cause of Duvall’s death “was complications from diabetes.”
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Duvall starred in seven Robert Altman films in addition to “The Shining.” However, An interview with Dr. Phil from 2016 raised concerns about Duvall’s mental health when she claimed that actor Robin Williams was still alive, among other unusual comments. Williams died in 2014.
Shelley Duvall’s partner remembered her as “Dear, sweet, wonderful” in a tribute and said she was “bedridden”
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“My dear, sweet, wonderful life partner and friend has left us. Too much suffering lately, she is free now. Fly away beautiful Shelley,” Gilroy told The Hollywood Reporter.
Gilroy was a member of “Madonna’s first band, Breakfast Club,” reported a 2021 article in The Hollywood Reporter.
That article reported that Gilroy and Duvall had been together since 1989, when they co-starred in the Disney Channel movie “Mother Goose Rock ‘n’ Rhyme.”
Gilroy also paid tribute to Duvall in a separate interview with NBC News. In that interview, published by TODAY, revealed that she had died “shortly after midnight” in the home they shared. However, Gilroy told TMZ who found Duvall deceased at 7 a.m. on July 11.
“She left after a lot of suffering, which I think is a good thing, after 34 years. . . I can’t express how much I miss her,” he told NBC News, according to TODAY. The story of NBC News on Duvall’s death he used a truncated version of that quote.
According to TODAY, Gilroy revealed that Duvall “had been in hospice care and bedridden for the past several months.”
Shelley Duvall met Robert Altman after meeting members of his film crew at a party, according to reports
According to The New York Times, Altman met Duvall after meeting members of her production team on “Brewster McCloud” at a party she hosted to “sell her husband’s artwork.” She was introduced to Altman and he cast her in the film, The Times reported.
She went on to star in other Altman films, including, according to The Times, 1971’s “McCabe and Mrs. Miller,” 1974’s “Thieves Like Us,” 1975’s “Nashville” and 1976’s “Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson.”
Her breakout role in Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 “The Shining” saw her cast as the wife of Jack Nicholson’s character, who goes mad at a remote hotel, The Times reported.
In the interview with Dr. Phil, she made some unusual comments, saying that the joy in her life came mostly from “watching the smallest forms of life that are visible to the naked eye.” She told Dr. Phil that she sometimes felt “overly happy” during the day.
Duvall said he had made no friends in that interview and said he disagreed with the U.S. Department of Defense. He also talked about the FBI. In that interview, he said he loved Robin Williams, but also claimed he was a shapeshifter who hadn’t died and told Dr. Phil he had a “buzzing record” inside him. He said he might want to act again but that he had “broken teeth.”
“I don’t think he’s dead,” she told Dr. Phil of Williams, also acknowledging in the interview that she was “sick.”
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