The ex-wife of doomed child star Gary Coleman speaks out on shocking claims she ‘murdered’ him

A new documentary about the late child star Gary Coleman examines allegations that his ex-wife Shannon Price was involved in his tragic death.

“Gary,” now streaming on Peacock, features interviews with several of Coleman's friends who claim that Price, 39, was responsible for the “Diff'rent Strokes” star's death at age 42 in May 2010.

Darren Nord, a friend of Coleman, described his death as “suspicious,” while his former manager Dion Mial said of the tragedy: “We were completely baffled because there were far too many questions without answers.”

Price – who was married to Coleman from 2007 to 2008 but continued to live with him after their divorce – defended herself in the documentary, insisting that she had nothing to do with his death.

“The fact that people come out and say, 'She murdered Gary. She pushed him down the stairs.' That really hurt me,” Price said in the film.

According to Price, the petite actress was in the kitchen preparing food for Coleman on the day of her death after she had undergone dialysis treatment for kidney disease. Price said she noticed that Coleman “wasn't feeling so good.”

“I heard a big loud bang,” she recalled. “I was like, 'Gary? Gary?' But I didn't hear anything. I got out of bed and went downstairs, and there he was on the floor with blood around his head.”

The documentary includes the recording of Price's 911 call after she allegedly discovered Coleman lying on the floor in a pool of blood.

“I just can't be here where the blood is. I'm sorry,” she told police on the phone. “I'm covered in blood. I don't want to be traumatized right now.”

Price described the call in the document as “hectic.”

“I didn't know what to do. I didn't know what to think,” she said. “There was a fair amount of blood and I was totally confused. I didn't want to intervene where the blood was because I knew help was coming. It's not that I didn't help him. I helped him. Clearly, I helped him.”

Price did not accompany Coleman to the hospital.

“I wasn't in the right frame of mind to go with him,” she explained. “I was upset. I was stressed. Scared. Sad. Just things that any normal person would feel.”

Price said she spoke to Coleman on the phone later that day.

“He said something like, 'I have a really bad headache. I think I'm just going to go to sleep,'” Price recalled. “I said something like, 'Talk to you later. I love you.' He said something like, 'I love you too.'

“And that's the last thing he said to me.”

The next day, Price learned that Coleman had suffered an intracranial hemorrhage. He went into cardiac arrest and was placed on life support. At that point, Price made the decision to stop therapy after doctors told her Coleman would not survive.

“The decision to stop life support was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do,” Price said.

However, Price's decisions during the last two days of Coleman's life did not sit well with those closest to the late star.

Coleman's ex-girlfriend Anna Gray said Price was “more worried about herself than the person she called 911 about.”

Gray also questioned why Price allowed doctors to take Coleman off life support after just two days, saying that it was Coleman's wish to remain alive for two more weeks in case such an incident occurred.

However, Price contradicted this claim.

“In the medical instructions, he said that if two or more doctors determined that he would not wake up, then life support should be withdrawn. There were enough doctors and medical staff who explained his condition to me and told me that he was not going to get better.”

However, Gray said she still does not believe Price is innocent in Coleman's death.

“I think their actions speak volumes and I don't need to say more,” she said.

Mial pointed out that given Coleman's height of only 4 feet 6 inches, he “didn't have to fall that far.”

“Personally, I don't think he fell,” said Coleman's girlfriend Brandy Buys.

At the end of “Gary,” Price reiterated that she did not kill the “Silver Spoons” star.

“I broke down. I cried. How can people be so evil and think I did this? Why? Because I'm the ex-wife? I'm the evil person, right?” she continued. “I didn't do anything. I didn't touch him. I didn't hurt him. I wasn't near him. Nothing happened.”

At the beginning of the documentary, however, Price admitted that there had been physical altercations between her and Coleman during their marriage.

“I slapped him a couple of times,” she said. “Nothing serious. Nothing that would raise alarm bells. People slap each other. They hit each other. People do that. If you deny it, you're crazy.”