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- Shannon Price Claims She 'Had No Choice' But to Take Gary Coleman Off Life Support 2 Days After His Fall</p>
<p>Liza EsquibiasJuly 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM</p>
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<p>Shannon Price (left) and Gary Coleman</p>
<p>Shannon Price opens up about her decision to end Gary Coleman's life support two days after he was placed in a medically-induced coma in A&E's Lie Detector: Truth or Deception special</p>
<p>The actor died on May 28, 2010 after falling in the home he and Price, his ex-wife, shared</p>
<p>There has long been speculation of her involvement in his death, although it was ultimately ruled accidental</p>
<p>Shannon Price is addressing the controversial decision she made to end ex-husband Gary Coleman's life.</p>
<p>In May 2010, the late actor was placed in a medically-induced coma after suffering an intracranial hemorrhage from a fall. Two days later, Price instructed the hospital to take Coleman off life support despite his living will requesting he be kept alive for 15 days before terminating treatment.</p>
<p>"I had no choice," Price claims in the upcoming A&E special, Lie Detector: Truth or Deception. "He had gone into cardiac arrest, and that is ultimately what took his life."</p>
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<p>Shannon Price and Gary ColemanHost Tony Harris asks if Price could have given Coleman, who had arrived at the hospital on a Wednesday, more time, but she says, "no."</p>
<p>"They called me Thursday morning and said, 'Does Gary have a DNR [do not resuscitate order]?'" she recalls. "And I said, 'Yeah, resuscitate him.' I tried. I tried to do everything in my will."</p>
<p>"Thursday I go visit him, speak with the doctors, and they are like, 'Shannon, we do not think that he is going to make it until Friday,'" she continues. "Meaning his condition is not going to get any better. I made the right decision."</p>
<p>When pressed about her reasoning for her confidence that the Diff'rent Strokes star, who was 42, would not recover, Price says, "I asked the questions, I saw the condition he was in."</p>
<p>"I just knew," she insists. "I mean, he was basically already gone. And I said, 'Okay, are his eyes dilated?' And they said, 'Yes.' And I said, 'Okay, can I see?' And they showed me, and that's when I knew."</p>
<p>What doctors didn't know at the time, along with many of their friends and family, was that Price and Coleman were no longer legally married.</p>
<p>"Doctors at the hospital assumed Shannon was still married to Gary when in fact they had been divorced in secret," he reveals. "Shannon presented a document at the hospital naming her as the decision maker on Gary's advanced medical directive, giving her the right to make decisions about his end of life treatment and care."</p>
<p>The pair tied the knot in August 2007 and divorced the following year, which Price called "a mistake."</p>
<p>"It was my decision, he did not want the divorce," she says, adding: "I was just still at the house. My stuff was there, everything was there, we were still together."</p>
<p>"There's two things I regret: divorcing him, and not being able to save his life," she later confesses.</p>
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<p>Shannon Price, Tony Harris and George OlivoFurther concern about Price's potential involvement in Coleman's death also stemmed from her behavior in the moments after his fall.</p>
<p>In a recording of the 911 call she made when she allegedly discovered Coleman in a pool of blood in their Utah home, Price could be heard refusing to listen to the operator's instructions to help him.</p>
<p>"As far as rendering aid, I could have helped him a little bit more," she admits while going over results for a polygraph exam she voluntarily took in the docuseries.</p>
<p>While she maintained her innocence relating to the incident entirely — citing Coleman's death being ruled accidental and never having any charges filed against her — the lie detector showed "deception indicated" when directly asked if she physically caused Coleman's fall.</p>
<p>"You say you have nothing to hide. I say you know exactly why you failed this test," the polygraph examiner, George Olivo, says. "Sadly, my professional opinion is the truth is not on your side today."</p>
<p>"And I figured it wouldn't be," Price chimes in, to which Olivo replies, "Because you already knew you were gonna fail, and you know why you did."</p>
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<p>Lie Detector: Truth or Deception premieres Thursday, July 10 at 9 p.m. ET on A&E.</p>
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