Sally Field collaborated with Williams in the hit comedy in 1993, playing his character’s ex-wife and mother of his three children.

A few years before Mrs. Doubtfire started filming, Field’s father suffered a stroke, necessitating his transfer to a nursing home.

While on a film set, the actor received a call informing her that her father had suffered another severe stroke.

Field discussed the memories in an interview with Vanity Fair, which invited more than 20 of Williams’ coworkers, colleagues, and friends to express their thoughts on him to commemorate the tenth anniversary of his tragic death.

She acknowledges that she had “never shared before” the anecdote, but she opened up to demonstrate Williams’ “sensitivity and intuition.”

Field explained: “I was in the tent outside the courtroom as we were filming the divorce scene. My father had a stroke a few years previously and was in a nursing home. The doctor called and informed me that my father had died as a result of a huge stroke.

“He asked me if I wanted them to put him on the resuscitator. I said, “No, he didn’t want that. Please let him go. Please bend down and say, ‘Sally says farewell’.”

Field remembered being “beside herself,” but she attempted to keep a brave front.

“I came on the set trying with all my might to act,” she recalled. “I wasn’t crying.” Robin approached, took me out of the stage, and asked, ‘Are you okay?'”

Field originally insisted she was well, prompting Williams to say he ‘just thought [he’d] ask’.

She then told the truth, and Williams said, “Oh my God, we need to get you out [of] here right now.”

“And he made it happen—they shot around me the rest of the day,” Field recalled.

“I could go back home, contact my brother, and make plans. It was a part of Robin that few people knew: he was extremely sensitive and insightful.

Mara Wilson, who played Williams’ youngest kid in Mrs. Doubtfire, further displayed his sympathetic side.

Wilson lost her mother in 1996, and a short time later, she met Williams during a table read for the film What Dreams May Come.

She recalled: “He approached me and kindly inquired about my well-being and those of my family, but did not bring up anything that may have been hurtful.” He was just so sweet.”

Williams was only 63 when he died on August 11, 2014.