The woman who found Robin Williams’ body was his long-time personal assistant and confidante Rebecca Erwin Spencer, according to a report.
On Wednesday, Radar Online identified the 57-year old as the person who made the grisly find.
She posted on her Facebook on Tuesday, “What a time we had!” under a picture of Williams performing in one of many USO tours.
Facebook friends of Spencer’s chimed in with their support.
“What incredible memories,” wrote Bess Gombach Matuszewski. “Both of you were real troopers, and heroes in your own right.”
Spencer has taken down her Twitter, but Radar found a Jan. 26, 2013 tweet by Williams thanking his “lovely assistant.”
She had snapped a picture of Williams performing and the funny man tweeted out the image and message: “My lovely assistant @RErwinSpencer took this from the balcony tonight.”
A friend of Spencer said she lived just five minutes away from the home where she found Williams’ body on Monday.
“Rebecca was incredibly closed to Robin,” a pal of hers told the Daily Mail. “She used to live in San Francisco, but when Robin moved out to [suburban] Tiburon, she moved to a place about five minutes away.”
Williams and his wife Susan Schneider retired to separate bedrooms on Sunday night, the last time anyone saw the comedic actor alive, authorities said.
Schneider left their home Monday morning believing Williams was still asleep, officials said. Then at about 11:45 a.m., Spencer knocked on Williams’ bedroom door and he didn’t answer.
“At that time the personal assistant was able to gain access to Mr. Williams’ bedroom and entered the bedroom to find Mr. Williams, clothed in a seated position, unresponsive with a belt secured around his neck with the other end of the belt wedged between the closed closet door and the door frame,” Marin County Sheriff’s Lt. Keith Boyd said on Tuesday.
Spencer made at least two trips to Williams home on Tuesday, witnesses told Radar Online.
