The Controversial Affair That Led To Robin Williams' First Divorce

While Valerie Velardi initially allowed her husband's infidelity, she said that they eventually grew apart from each other for other reasons. As Robin Williams' comedy career burgeoned, the recent college grad found that his new lifestyle didn't fit her. "He was always looking for a connection or another character or an accent," Velardi shared in "Come Inside My Mind" (per PageSix). "He was shameless. He would just do it ... So we gave each other up."

Williams and Marsha Garces were married from 1989 to 2010 and welcomed two children together, Zelda and Cody. Just a short year after his second divorce, the comedian married his third wife Susan Schneider. She was his spouse from 2011 up until his tragic passing in 2014. 

At 63 years old, Williams took his own life — shocking the world and his family. Speaking on her father's impact, his only daughter Zelda Williams said in a statement: "My family has always been private about our time spent together. It was our way of keeping one thing that was ours, with a man we shared with an entire world." (via Entertainment Tonight)