Shannon Price, the ex-wife of Gary Coleman, appears to have been dishonest about the questionable events surrounding his passing in an episode of A&E’s new series, Lie Detector: Truth or Deception.
Coleman died in 2010 at 42 years old following a fall in their Santaquin, Utah home, which resulted in a brain hemorrhage. Price was present at the time of the incident, raising suspicions about her potential involvement in the unexpected death of the former actor.
Price is scheduled to feature in the premiere episode of Lie Detector: Truth or Deception, a two-hour segment where she intends to dispel these rumors. However, a preview suggests she might have been untruthful when responding to a significant question about that tragic day.
In the clip, polygraph examiner George Olivo tells Price, “I asked you the following relevant questions on this test, ‘Did you physically cause Gary’s fall,’ you answered, ‘No.’ I also asked you, ‘Did you physically cause Gary to fall that day?’ You said, ‘No.’”
“The results are you failed that exam with deception indicated to those relevant questions,” Olivo reveals, adding that she “failed the exam regarding Gary’s fall.”
Olivo then asks Price for her thoughts on the results, to which she replies, “That’s false.”
The couple met in 2005 when he moved to Utah to film Church Ball. They later divorced in 2008 but eventually got back together, and Price moved back into their home. Coleman and Price’s troubled relationship leading up to his death was explored in Peacock‘s 2024 documentary Gary, in which friends of the couple described the relationship as being “toxic” and noted that they were both physically abusive towards each other. Coleman’s lawyer also revealed in the documentary that the actor allegedly considered getting a restraining order against Price “multiple times” after they got back together.
Price shared her account of Coleman’s death in the documentary. According to her, she heard a “big loud boom” downstairs in the house and found him “laying down on the floor with blood around his head.”
But Price said she was “freaked out” by the blood that day and didn’t want to “intervene” since she “knew help was coming,” a move that many found suspicious.
Now, Price will have to address the circumstances surrounding his death once again on A&E’s Lie Detector: Truth or Deception.
“There’s two things I know for sure, Shannon,” Olivo tells Price in the show. “One, you were not completely honest with me yesterday during this polygraph session, and two, the one thing I know that’s 100 percent certain is that there is more to this story that hasn’t been told. The body never lies. The body always tells the truth, and your body on that lie detector test spoke loud and clear.”
Lie Detector: Truth or Deception will premiere on A&E Thursday, July 10 at 9/8c.
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