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As the world mourns the shocking loss of Robin Williams, details continue to emerge about the comedy icon’s recent struggles with money and addiction.

“All he could talk about were serious money troubles,” a family friend who recently spoke with Williams told Radar Online. “There were clearly other issues going on and Robin sounded distant during the telephone conversation.”

Williams opened up about his money problems in a Parade magazine interview last year in which he mentioned how hard it was to deal with divorce.

“Divorce is expensive,” Williams said. “It’s ripping your heart through your wallet.”

The Oscar-winner and stand-up comedian also talked about the first time he quit drugs, 30 years ago.

“The first time I stopped was because my son Zachary was about to be born,” he told Parade.

His son, Zachary Pym Williams, was born on April 11, 1983.

“I didn’t do rehab or AA. I just stopped.”

“I didn’t want to be coked out, going, ‘Here’s a little switch — Daddy’s going to throw up on you!’”

“I wanted to be a participating parent,” he added.

Williams, who had a roller-coaster film career, also discussed taking roles he probably shouldn’t have.

“You go, ‘Why did you do that?’ But in the end, I can’t regret them because I met amazing people.”

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After the cancellation of his CBS show “The Crazy Ones” in May, the family friend told Radar that Williams was having an extremely difficult time coping with the show being axed.

“Robin slipped into a deep depression,” the friend said. “He felt embarrassed and humiliated that the show had been a failure.”

Since the comedy great was older and looking for work, the friend said money played a key role in his decision-making.

“Here he was in his 60s, and forced to take a role on television for the money,” the friend told Radar. “It’s just not where he thought he would be at this point in his life.”

In the wake of his tragic suicide, Williams left behind four upcoming movies that have yet to be released.

He will be making his third appearance as Teddy Roosevelt in the third installment of “Night at the Museum,” titled “Secret of the Tomb,” which is set to be released in December, according to IMDB.

The actor was also slated to star in “Boulevard” and “Merry Friggin’ Christmas,” as well as lend his voice as Dennis the Dog in “Absolutely Nothing.”

Wary of his issues with money, the entertainment legend made sure his kids would be financially stable when he created a trust in 2009 which outlined a series of money disbursements to his three kids, TMZ reports.

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Payment did not rely on whether Williams died because the document detailed a series of individual payments his children would begin receiving when they each turned 21 years old.

Once 21, each child would receive one-third of the share, followed by a payment at 25 years old of half the money that remained in the trust. At 30, they would each get their entire share in full.

Zachary, who is 31 years old, has already received his entire sum, while his brother, Cody, 22, and sister, Zelda, 25, have yet to be paid the rest of their money from the trust, according to TMZ.

It is unclear how much money was set aside for his kids, but Williams is believed to have kept a considerable amount of his wealth outside of the trust, which his current wife, Susan Schneider, could see exclusively.

He was estimated to be worth around $130 million in 2012, but admitted in a 2013 interview that he was on the verge of bankruptcy.