Gary Coleman's Ex-Wife to Scatter His Ashes "Around Train Tracks"
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Shannon Price says that Gary Coleman wanted to be cremated.
Her plans for his ashes?
"To spread some of them around some train tracks because trains were his hobby and he loved that very much," Price, 24, tells Entertainment Tonight. "And I think that he would really appreciate that I did that for him."
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Us Weekly has reported the couple -- who wed in 2007 after meeting on the set of indie film Church Ball the year before -- feuded over his train hobby.
"He once bought her a train set as a gift," said Jordan Prentince, his co-star on his last film, Midgets vs. Mascots. "She was furious."
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Price, who was divorced from Coleman, 47, when he died from a brain hemorrhage May 28, also said that she has a legal document showing "he wanted me to have everything."
"His financial problems have always been bad with people stealing from him," she goes on. "Gary hasn't been able to take care of finances very well because no one taught him. [But] we survived through everything. I had some family help us. My family's been very supportive [of us]."
Coleman's former agent slammed Price for allegedly selling photos of the actor while he was in the hospital and had tubes attached to his body. Price's rep told E! News the pics "were never meant to get out."
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Price says she's still in denial that her husband is gone.
"Reality really hasn't hit me yet. I feel like Gary's in L.A. working because when he would go on jobs he would be gone for a while," she tells ET. "But I've had anxiety dealing with the legal stuff, and not being able to talk to him has actually been the hardest."
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42Its funny how shannon's manager is speaking on here defending her on a different name. Even though what she says is true. I know it for a fact.
Ali-people place ashes in all sorts of places-rose gardens, mountain tops, beaches, at sea, etc...What would appear to be odd might make perfect sense to someone else who knew what made their loved one happy.
Many people take photos of their loved ones when they pass away to remember them. Further, Shannon may have had bills related to Gary's expenses that needed to be paid. Dion, Bridges and his parents did not pay for these things. Shannon may have borrowed money from friends, family, etc...and needed to pay things back as soon as possible. Give someone experiencing a death in the family the benefit of the doubt before making accusations.
i didnt mean "called " i meant "killed" she should be cut off rfom ANY money if there is any left! go back to the trailor she was raised in and call it a day shes just sick !
i think its sick sad and crazy that this heffer wouldnt help him when he lay bleeding on the ground and has the nerve to tell anyone he wanted her to have everything. Did he tell her he wanted to lay on the ground bleeding to death too and when he dies be sure to take pictures and sell them to the enquirer for 10 thousand??!!! I hope she rots in hell dies a slow painful death and comes back and dies again that broad! she called arnold and the world will NEVER forgive her !
She thought she was marrying someone who had a lot of money. Greedy. From the 911 call she did nothing to help him. She should get NOTHING...
I am so sick of her forget Gary what about poor me attitude, She thinks it's all about her and Gary is an after thought which sadly is probably the way it was while he was alive also.
@Sandy you should listen to the 911 call and watch the interview she gave hours after pulling the plug on him.. It is awful and shows that she didn't give a crap about him. They are both on TMZ
Whoops,,,Manical??
She should honor his love of trains by laying on the tracks and getting run over by a train or two! Gary would probably be so honored!
Umm I thought they were divorced?!
She is so nasty and greedy. She will get what she deserves....what goes around comes around.
Why does the ex-wife have any claim to anything of the deceased. The house, I can understand if her name is on the deed then sure the house is hers but anything else I don't see where she has rights to anything. Cohabitation isn't entitlement. They were divorced. Also that matter her being afraid of helping him for fear of having a seizure(which I heard she claimed)is b.s. too. My husband is epileptic and trust me if I was laying on the floor bleeding he would do everything he could to save me chance of triggering a seizure or not.
joya22 go away nobody cares if you are selling yourself
How very sad. Train tracks? Is she for real?
joya22 get a life go sell yourself some place other than this site.
Well, gee, she knows everything. They should just take her word for it...let's see...he wanted her to have all of his [leftover] money; he wanted to be cremated; his ashes will be scattered over a train track. Anyone who doesn't see through this crazy woman's claims is crazy themselves. She killed him for what money he had left and she cremated him so they can't do an autopsy...AND with the ashes scattered they won't have anything to do any kind of testing for poison or drugs. JMHO
What he - and the rest of us - would appreciate is your stop acting like a money-grubbing loon.
Would she be spreading those ashes on the side of the tracks that she is from that being the white trash side...she is such low life.
Geesh, why don't you just scatter them over the city dump?