{"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&#8217; Cause of Death Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-testid=\"segment-text-only\">\n<p>Williams&#8217; struggles with substance abuse were well documented prior to his passing. In a 2020 interview <a href=\"https:\/\/www.menshealth.com\/entertainment\/a34250169\/michael-k-williams-lovecraft-country\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">with\u00a0<em>Men&#8217;s Health<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0<em>The Wire<\/em>\u00a0star spoke candidly about turning to drugs as an adolescent and relapsing after shooting the first season of\u00a0<em>Lovecraft Country<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Williams said that as a teen, he was &#8220;plagued&#8221; by his sensitive personality, explaining, &#8220;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, &#8216;Eh, maybe the world will be better off without me.&#8217; And I took a bottle of pills, woke up to my stomach being pumped.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Decades later, while working to maintain his sobriety, Williams said playing Montrose Freeman in\u00a0<em>Lovecraft Country<\/em> &#8220;woke up a lot of demons,&#8221; which led him to enter therapy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Williams&#8217; struggles with substance abuse were well documented prior to his passing. In a 2020 interview with\u00a0Men&#8217;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 &#8220;plagued&#8221; by his sensitive personality, explaining, &#8220;It was one of [&hellip;]<\/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}]}}