Actress Lisa Jakub on How Robin Williams Helped Her Through Depression

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'Mrs. Doubtfire' actress Lisa Jakub shares how the late Robin Williams helped her through anxiety and depression.

co-star and eldest daughter in the film, Lisa Jakub, opened up about how the late actor used his struggles with anxiety and depression to help her battle through her own.

"Robin was everything that you would hope he would be, and he was very open and honest with me about his issues with anxiety and depression," Jakub said."I was able to share with him that anxiety was something that I struggled with, and he would talk to me about mental health issues in a way that 14-year-olds aren't usually used to adults being really open about those sorts of personal experiences with them.

"He was very insistent in making sure that I knew that substances were not going to help. That that was a route that he had gone with addiction and that it just made everything worse," the 42-year-old mental health advocate shared."And I think as a 14-year-old kid actor, it's a really good story to get, a really good message to hear, because that does tend to be a well-worn path for a lot of kid actors.

Jakub is now using what the legendary comedian and actor taught her to pay it forward by teaching mental health workshops to help others cope with anxiety and depression. "I feel like that is one of the ways I'm kind of paying forward some of the things that Robin taught me by being so open," she said.

 

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