Robin Williams‘ daughter, Zelda, took to X, previously Twitter, this weekend to debunk a viral picture of the late comic alleging he owned a pet monkey.
“Dad didn’t personal a pet monkey,” Zelda wrote. “NO ONE ought to.”
The picture in query, posted from an account titled Time Capsule Tales, confirmed Robin Williams smiling with a monkey balanced on his shoulder. The caption claimed the image was taken just a few days earlier than Williams died by suicide on Aug. 11, 2014, and that the animal was “his pet monkey.” By the point of this text’s publication, the publish had practically 9 million views.
In her publish, Zelda clarified that the monkey within the picture is the animal that appeared in Evening on the Museum, and that the monkey now lives at an animal rescue middle. She referred the unique publish as “some most likely AI written BS.”
In a separate publish, Zelda additionally famous that Monday would be the tenth anniversary of her father’s demise. “Since extra fully false or badly researched posts are more likely to go viral on Dad’s demise anniversary, possibly simply assume they’re all BS (they normally are),” she wrote. “Ignore the creepy robots attempting to farm your clicks & do one thing good for your self as an alternative. I positive as hell will.”