When his alcoholic wife drowned in 1999, William Shatner was a prime murder suspect he reveals in his new autobiography, 'Up Till Now'.
Though the Boston Legal actor tried desperately to save wife Nerine Kidd after finding her floating face down in their home pool, he was further devastated when a detective told him: "If there is any hint of foul play, you are the first suspect." Denny Crane!
Shatner writes that he replied: "What are you talking about? This is the woman I loved more than my life. I wouldn't hurt her."
Kidd's death marked the end of a marriage the Star Trek legend insists was made tumultuous by his wife's cocaine abuse."I was so frustrated, so angry. We were so close to a wonderful life together but we just couldn't get there..."
"And then to see her drunk... to see our life together being shattered. I would sit in our house and cry. I remember sitting in a chair one morning, my hands over my eyes, sobbing."
A coroner eventually ruled that Kidd, 40, had died accidentally after she had been drinking by the pool and slipped, hitting her head and falling unconscious into the pool.
