“Their friendship, their connection, is the stuff of legend,” Close said, perET.

“It not only endured, but became a life-giving force sustaining them both.”

“They were on top of the world.

Glenn Close attending an event in 2023

Close believes that this decades-long friendship would’ve kept Robins alive if Reeve hadn’t passed away in 2004.

“It was not depression that killed Robin,” she toldPeoplein 2015.

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Christopher Reeve and his wife (Dana) and son (Will) posing with Robin Williams in 2004

“He announced that he was my proctologist and that he had to examine me immediately.

But it was Robin Williams.”

Split image of Christopher Reeve and Robin Williams