Gary Coleman's ex-wife fails lie-detector test about actor's death from fall
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Actor Gary Coleman’s ex-wife wasn’t able to pass a lie-detector test when questioned about the circumstances surrounding his death.
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Shannon Price is set to appear on A&E’s Lie Detector: Truth or Deception series after she was asked yes or no questions about Coleman’s death by a retired FBI agent and polygraph examiner George Olivo.
Price married the Diff’rent Strokes actor in 2007 after they met on the set of the film Church Ball. However, the following year they divorced and Coleman was granted a restraining order to keep her away from his home when he was hospitalized.
Despite the restraining order, Coleman and Price lived together in a common-law relationship until his death in May 2010 after he fell down the stairs at his Utah home.
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According to A&E, Price took the test to “address persistent public suspicion regarding her potential involvement in his death, even though she was never charged in connection with it.”
She answered Olivo’s questions while hooked up to the machine, according to The Hollywood Reporter, which obtained a copy of the episode before it aired.
“Did you ever strike Gary during your relationship?”
“No,” she answered.
“Did you intentionally decide to withhold help to Gary when he fell?”
“No,” she replied again.
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The polygraph determined her answers to those two questions were inconclusive, meaning she didn’t score high enough to pass or low enough to fail.
“Did you physically cause Gary’s fall? Did you physically cause Gary to fall that day?”
“No,” she said.
That response was rated a failing grade with deception. Olivo asked her what she thought about the results.
“That’s false,” she said.
Olivo said he doesn’t know what exactly happened the day Coleman fell down the stairs and injured his head, resulting in a brain bleed that ultimately led to his death at 42.
“I don’t know what happened in that house, but what could have happened is that she and Gary got into a shouting match or an argument that turned into a shoving match, he fell and hit the ground,” Olivo told The Hollywood Reporter. “It doesn’t have to be any more sinister than that.”
He added that she may not want to explain how the events unfolded in the home if Coleman’s head injury happened by accident.
“All I know for sure, what I’m 100% certain of — at least through my process — is that there is more to the story than she’s telling.”
The two-hour premiere airs Thursday night on A&E.
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