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Zelda Williams: 'No Point' Asking Why Robin Williams Took His Own Life

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Six months after Robin Williams took his own life, his daughter Zelda is opening up about what hers is like now that he’s gone.

"I don’t think there’s a point. It’s not important to ask," she told Kate Snow on the Today show on Thursday morning. Looking put-together, but understandably somber, Zelda continued. 

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"There’s no point questioning it and no point blaming anyone for it and there’s no point blaming yourself or the world or whatever the case may be because it happened and you have to continue to move and you have to continue to live and manage." 

That task hasn’t been easy for the 25-year-old actress, but she remains optimistic that she will find peace and joy again with time.

"It’s going to take a lot of work to allow myself to have the sort of fun, happy life that I had, but that’s important," she revealed before adding, "Anybody who has ever lost anyone works very hard to continue that memory in a positive way."

Zelda first honoured her father’s memory with a hummingbird tattoo last October.

"They’re fun and flighty and strange," she explained. "It’s hard to keep them in one place and dad was a bit like that. Keeping a conversation in one moment was impossible with him."

She’s also keeping Robin’s memory alive by continuing his charitable work.

"He’s done charity as long as he had the wherewithal and the ability to do it. That was what his favorite thing other than comedy really was," Zelda said.

This Friday, she will present the Noble Award, which honours humanitarian work, to the Challenged Athlete Foundation, an organisation that Robin Williams staunchly supported that provides prosthetics to disabled athletes.

As a general guideline, though, Zelda’s not forcing the healing process too much. “You know, it’s taking it one step at a time,” she reflected. “The world keeps spinning.”

Elizabeth Durand Streisand writes for Yahoo Celebrity

Image credits: Yahoo Entertainment/Zelda Williams