His manager at the time, Eliot Weisman, suggested the singer’s use of antidepressants could have exacerbated his issues.
Eliot told Fox News in 2017: “If you read about the antidepressant he was on, if you read the warnings, everything that could go wrong, like loss of vision, loss of hearing, loss of memory — all of those things he at one time or another was harmed by it.
“The antidepressant he was on… I think you’re only supposed to be on it for 12 to 13 months, at most.
“Then you come off it for a while or change it to another antidepressant. He was on it for 10 to 15 years.
“Barbara [Frank’s wife] decided that it was the wrong thing to do [to take him off the antidepressant] because sometimes when you go off one antidepressant and on to another, you could get violent.
