Gary Coleman’s Ex-Wife Shannon Price Fails Lie Detector Test Question About His Death On A&E’s ‘Lie Detector: Truth Or Deception’

Gary Coleman‘s ex-wife Shannon Price seemingly lied about the suspicious circumstances surrounding his death during an appearance on A&E’s new series Lie Detector: Truth or Deception.

Coleman passed away in 2010 at the age of 42 after falling in the Santaquin, Utah home he shared with Price and suffering a brain bleed. Price was also home during the incident, leading to questions about her possible involvement in the former actor’s sudden death.

Now, Price is set to appear in the two-hour premiere episode of Lie Detector: Truth or Deception, in which she aims to put the rumors to rest. But a trailer for the episode reveals she may have lied when answering one “critical” question about that fateful day.

In the clip, polygraph examiner George Olivo tells Price, “I asked you the following relevant questions on this test, ‘Did you physically cause Gary’s fall,’ you answered, ‘No.’ I also asked you, ‘Did you physically cause Gary to fall that day?’ You said, ‘No.’”

“The results are you failed that exam with deception indicated to those relevant questions,” Olivo reveals, adding that she “failed the exam regarding Gary’s fall.”

Olivo then asks Price for her thoughts on the results, to which she replies, “That’s false.”

The couple met in 2005 when he moved to Utah to film Church Ball. They later divorced in 2008 but eventually got back together, and Price moved back into their home. Coleman and Price’s troubled relationship leading up to his death was explored in Peacock‘s 2024 documentary Gary, in which friends of the couple described the relationship as being “toxic” and noted that they were both physically abusive towards each other. Coleman’s lawyer also revealed in the documentary that the actor allegedly considered getting a restraining order against Price “multiple times” after they got back together.

Price shared her account of Coleman’s death in the documentary. According to her, she heard a “big loud boom” downstairs in the house and found him “laying down on the floor with blood around his head.”

But Price said she was “freaked out” by the blood that day and didn’t want to “intervene” since she “knew help was coming,” a move that many found suspicious.

Now, Price will have to address the circumstances surrounding his death once again on A&E’s Lie Detector: Truth or Deception.

“There’s two things I know for sure, Shannon,” Olivo tells Price in the show. “One, you were not completely honest with me yesterday during this polygraph session, and two, the one thing I know that’s 100 percent certain is that there is more to this story that hasn’t been told. The body never lies. The body always tells the truth, and your body on that lie detector test spoke loud and clear.”

Lie Detector: Truth or Deception will premiere on A&E Thursday, July 10 at 9/8c.