{"id":34619,"date":"2021-09-25T01:55:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T20:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/michael-k-williams-cause-of-death-revealed\/"},"modified":"2021-09-25T01:56:05","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T20:26:05","slug":"michael-k-williams-cause-of-death-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/michael-k-williams-cause-of-death-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael K. Williams’ Cause of Death Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\n

Williams’ struggles with substance abuse were well documented prior to his passing. In a 2020 interview with\u00a0Men’s Health<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0The Wire<\/em>\u00a0star spoke candidly about turning to drugs as an adolescent and relapsing after shooting the first season of\u00a0Lovecraft Country<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Williams said that as a teen, he was “plagued” by his sensitive personality, explaining, “It was one of the things that led me to attempt suicide. I was 17. I was lost. I was very awkward with the ladies. Drugs were there. And I was already self-medicating. And I just got lost. I just remember feeling like, ‘Eh, maybe the world will be better off without me.’ And I took a bottle of pills, woke up to my stomach being pumped.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Decades later, while working to maintain his sobriety, Williams said playing Montrose Freeman in\u00a0Lovecraft Country<\/em> “woke up a lot of demons,” which led him to enter therapy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Williams’ struggles with substance abuse were well documented prior to his passing. In a 2020 interview with\u00a0Men’s Health,\u00a0The Wire\u00a0star spoke candidly about turning to drugs as an adolescent and relapsing after shooting the first season of\u00a0Lovecraft Country.\u00a0 Williams said that as a teen, he was “plagued” by his sensitive personality, explaining, “It was one of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":34620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Michael-K-Williams-Cause-of-Death-Revealed.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}