Comic Robin Williams leaves rehab to win wife back

Troubled comic Robin Williams has checked himself out of rehab and moved in with a "sober companion" in a desperate bid to win his wife back.

The Oscar winner - who admitted himself into rehab to try and battle his alcoholism in July after his wife threatened to walk out - left Newberg, Oregon's Hazelden Springbrook clinic on September 14.

Williams, 55, immediately boarded a plane to Los Angeles. He will stay there for three months as part of a "transition period" while he adapts to living in the real world again, reports the National Enquirer.

"Williams originally entered a 30-day treatment programme," said a source. "But after the initial 30 days were up, he realised that he needed another 30 days of inpatient treatment to get his life under control.

"During the last 30 days, he lived in a house near the rehab centre specifically set up for after-care patients. He was still required to attend daily AA meetings and appointments with his counsellors."

Williams reportedly decided to check himself into a rehabilitation facility after more than 20 years of sobriety to save his marriage to Marsha, who had issued a blistering ultimatum: "Get help or I'm leaving!"

He fell off the wagon two years ago during filming for The Big White in Alaska. Friends fear his drinking may have already signalled the end of his 17-year marriage.

The magazine claims that the Good Morning Vietnam star will stay in LA for three months as part of a "transition period" and that it could be a year before he moves back in with his wife so he can make a full recovery.

He told a pal: "When I leave rehab, I'm not sure I have a home to go to."

The friend added: "Instead of going home to his wife and two teenage children in Napa Valley, he's moved to Los Angeles, where he's renting an apartment and living with a "sober companion".

"Williams hired the companion to watch over him 24 hours a day and ensure he doesn't fall off the wagon."

Williams was in rehab when his last film The Night Listener premiered on August 4. The source said that he will now be free to attend the October premiere of his animated movie Man of the Year with or without his wife.

"I'll do whatever it takes to get my marriage back on track," Williams told the friend.

"I don't want to lose her [Marsha] and I will do anything to get her back."