Todd Bridges Says He Has 'a Lot of Questions' About 'How' Gary Coleman Died (Exclusive)

"The last conversation me and Gary had, he was talking about how he didn't feel safe," Bridges reveals

Todd Bridges is opening up about the last conversation he had with the late Gary Coleman.

Following the release of the documentary about Coleman’s life and 2010 death, called GARY, Bridges spoke with PEOPLE about why he participated in it. Explaining that he felt Coleman needed people who were in his corner to accurately tell his story, Bridges says he doesn’t feel his Diff’rent Strokes costar had many friends to do so.

“I was the last remaining member that really knew him of the show, and I just wanted to tell the truth,” Bridges says. “Me and Dion [Mial, Gary’s former manager] just wanted to tell the truth. And the thing about it is, his parents did not look so good. I don't know why they even chose to do it.”

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The Everybody Hates Chris alum admits he is critical of Coleman’s parents, who have been accused of misusing Coleman’s money from when he was a child actor but maintained in the documentary they only ever protected Coleman's finances. They also attempted to gain a conservatorship over Coleman once he became an adult, but the child star won the case.

“They were shady,” he adds. “And I'll tell you a very interesting thing about it was the way [Coleman’s father] and them had tried to do me. Willie Coleman called me one time and said, ‘Can you have Gary call me?’ And I was like, ‘No,’ click. Because Gary didn't want to talk to him. He didn't want to talk to him. He didn't want nothing to do with him. They did not protect their kid in any way.”

Another participant of the documentary that Bridges says he was surprised to see speaking out was Coleman’s ex, Shannon Price, who ended up deciding to pull the plug on his life support. This raised suspicion from the public after it was revealed that Coleman’s will asked that anyone wait two weeks before taking him off life support, but she only waited two days.

“I don't think she wanted him to wake up,” the Dang! podcast host reveals. “The last conversation me and Gary had, he was talking about how he didn't feel safe, and I was telling him to find somewhere that he could become safer.”

“And the unfortunate part about it was I had just left to go on a lake trip with my family, and so I'd had no phone out there,” he continues. “The thing about it was that [Price] was not his wife at the time. It was his ex-wife at the time. So I don't know how she was allowed to pull the plug.”

In the documentary, Price addressed these accusations, simply saying: “I would never hurt my husband, ever.” (PEOPLE has reached out to Price for comment, while Coleman's parents were unable to be reached.)

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The skepticism didn’t end there for Bridges. He went on to say that Coleman’s manner of death seemed odd to him as well.

“There's a lot of questions — questions about the stairs he fell down out, how he died,” Bridges says. “I just think that the City of Utah did not want to be responsible for killing Gary Coleman.”

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Bridges isn’t the only one who wants answers regarding Coleman’s death. In the documentary, Mial expressed concern that it was unlikely Coleman could have died from a fall like Price had alleged, saying he “didn’t have that far to fall” given he was only 4 feet and 8 inches tall.

“We were absolutely stumped because there were way too many questions,” he said, mirroring Bridges’ notions. “With no answers.”

GARY is available to stream on Peacock.

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