Robin Williams Confessed To Loving Billy Connolly Like A Brother In A Final Goodbye Call

Robin Williams' friend, Billy Connolly, has a lot to say about comedy. It is not an offshoot of sadness or pain. That kind of statement is made only by "dull people who would like that to be the truth. I know plenty of happy comedians," said Connolly, to smh.com.

However, Connolly is sadly in pain right now. That is because he thinks of his life and memories with reference to the most important comedian he knows---Robin Williams. He agrees that Robin was his friend, not always depressed. Complex, yet beautiful. "He was a joy," said Connolly.

Last month, Robin Williams created shock waves in the world. He took his life---as well as the happiness of multitudes. However, Billy Connolly, 71, his close friend, who was suffering from Parkinson's disease, like this 63-year-old, said that Robin had called him just before he died to say goodbye.

He recalls Robin's last phone call, before the 63-year-old died. "He tried to say goodbye to me." Billy Connolly reveals that Robin Williams expressed his affection and attachment in the final conversation.

"On the last phone call, he said, "I love you like a brother," and I said, "I know you do," and he said, "Are you sure you know?" and I said, "Yes". I thought afterwards he tried to say goodbye to me," said Connolly, according to Daily Mail. Over the phone, both the friends would discuss their disease at length. They would call each other and compare "notes."

Connolly doesn't have too many happy memories of his life, his parents, or even his health. But his attitude to everything is warm and positive, while his his recollection of his friend is most touching. He suffered from prostrate gland, but it was removed. He spoke a lot to Robin about Parkinson's disease, and agreed that he felt its influence all the time. Yet, he has decided to keep himself in a rush, so that he would be able to put it in the backburner. He admits: "I just get on with life despite this being another bump in the road."

Connolly's past life was ridden with sadness. He was abandoned by his mother and abused by his father, but he confesses that he does miss his mother Mary, even now. After she left her three children, and his father served in the Army, he was shifted with his elder sister Florence, to live along with his aunts, Mona and Margaret.

Yet, he remembers the ambiguous and "vague shadowy memory" of his mother. He realizes that he did not love her in an automatic way, but he would work at it like any other relationship. Yet, he is aware that his mother was burdened by a complicated circumstance that was ridden by religion as well as class. Being a teenaged mother in a slum wore her down. "Give her a break," he says. His father did come back, and helped to bring up the children. But in 2001, Connolly realized that his father had sexually abused him through five years. His wife, Pamela Stephenson, reveals details of the cruelty since he was 10.

He felt that there are many men like him, but only a few of them are heard---mostly those who "get hold of the microphone. What is important is to forget it, and move on in life. "If you don't, you are condemned to be defined by it and carry it around with you like a big rucksack full of rocks." It is important to redefine your own life, even if no one tells you to do so, he feels. Even his father, who sexually abused him, was a very generous and nice person. "A big, lonely man."

His last movie is "What We Did On Our Holiday", with co-star Rosamund Pike. He acts as an old man with doting children around him. Today, he is able to look back to a career in which most of his movies showed him dying. It has sickened his children. Yet he continues to pursue it. "It's just my age," he adds.

Sadly, one friend that he never thought would abandon him too has done so.