Heart-breaking clip from one of Robin Williams's final films, Boulevard, reopens the wounds of tragic actor's alimony woes with two ex-wives

Published: 21:57 EST, 16 July 2015 | Updated: 17:07 EST, 17 July 2015

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It's almost a year since Robin Williams committed suicide by hanging himself at his home in Tiburon, California

But his deep depression and money woes, two of the factors that may have contributed to his death, are again front and centre due to a clip from one of his last movies, Boulevard, that is doing the rounds.

E! News showed a clip from the movie, in which he plays a closeted gay man who finally comes out to his wife, (Kathy Baker) - subject matter that probably didn't help his depression.

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Hard to watch: In Boulevard, one of his last movies, Robin Williams plays a man who comes out as gay to his wife of many years, in a devastatingly upsetting scene

In the raw scene, she confronts her husband at home after he left her at a work dinner to deal with a crisis with a man he has feelings for. They argue, leaving Robin's character in tears.

The movie played the round of festivals, including New York's Tribeca, and was released on just one screen in the US on July 10, earning a mere $7,000.

Robin made no secret of the fact that he had 'serious money troubles' in the months before his death, a source told Radar at the time.

Boulevard official trailer starring Robin Williams

New love: Robin is pictured with his third wife, Susan, at an event in New York in 2012 just a year after they married. The depressed actor committed suicide at 63 last August

He is said to have paid out some $30 million in alimony to his two ex-wives: Valerie Velard, whom he was with from 1978 until 1988, and is the mother of his son Zachary, 31; and Zac's nanny Marsha Garces, to whom he was married from 1989 to 2008, They shared Zelda, 26, and Cody, 23.

He had been trying to sell his 600-acre ranch in the Napa Valley near San Francisco to raise much-needed funds for two years before his death.

According to a family friend quoted by Radar Online: 'All he could talk about were serious money troubles…Robin was known for being so generous to his friends and family during the height of his success, and would help anyone out that needed it.

Better times: The actor with first wife Valerie, the mother of his son Zac, at the Golden Globes in 1985. He was reportedly suffering money troubles when he died after paying out $30 million in alimony to his two exes

Another drain: Second wife Marsha with Robin at an event in Los Angeles in 2007. They shared two children, Zelda, 26, and Cody, 23

'There was also frustration that Robin expressed at having to take television and movie roles he didn’t want to take, but had to for the pay check.'

His third wife, Susan Schneider, who was 13 years his junior, revealed after his death that her husband of just three years had also been suffering the early stages of Parkinson's disease.

On a happier note, Robin's final film, Absolutely Anything, co-starring Simon Pegg, is a comedy about eccentric aliens who give a human being the power to do absolutely anything as an experiment. It is due out in the UK on August 14 although it has yet to get US distribution.