Paying tribute:
Zelda Williams paid tribute to her late father Robin Williams on Friday
while presenting one of his favourite charities with an honour at the
Noble Awards in Beverly Hills, California
Zelda
Williams paid tribute to her late father Robin Williams and his
humanitarian side on Friday at the Noble Awards in Beverly Hills,
California.
The
25-year-old brunette shined in a slinky white gown while remembering
her father's love for cycling and his work with the Challenged Athlete
Foundation that provides prosthetics to disabled athletes.
'Watching
my dad get on a bike was like watching a penguin spread its wings and
take flight,' Zelda said in a video shared on Twitter.
'He'd take off at inhuman speed, a smile on his face and never look back,' she recalled.
Zelda
presented the Noble Award for Activism In Sports to the San Diego-based
Challenged Athletes Foundation that was one of his favourite charities.
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Mother and daughter: Zelda attended the awards ceremony along with her mother Marsha Garces
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Fond memories: Robin loved cycling and his daughter talked about watching him ride
Hummingbird tattoo: Zelda got a
hummingbird tattoo on her right wrist after her father's death because
they are 'fun and flighty' like Robin
She spoke publicly on Thursday for the first time since her father committed suicide.
In an interview with NBC's Kate Snow on the TODAY show Zelda said she was focusing on the future.
Asked
about the death of her father, Zelda said: 'There's no point
questioning it and no point blaming anyone for it and there's no point
blaming yourself or the world or whatever the case maybe.
First interview: Zelda spoke with
NBC's Kate Snow on Thursday's TODAY show, six months after the death of
her father, Robin Williams, 63, who committed suicide at his California
home in August
Because it happened and you have to continue to move and you have to continue to live and manage.'
Williams,
who had a long history of depression, committed suicide at his home in
Paradise Cay in San Francisco Bay on August 11, 2014, aged 63.
Zelda
in an Instagram posting on Friday said she 'didn't do the interview to
talk about why my father died, I took it to talk about why he lived.'
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Longtime supporter: Robin, shown in September 2013, participated in the CAF triathlon from 1998 until 2009
Williams had his eldest son, Zachary, 32, with first wife Valerie Velardi.
He later married Marsha Garces, Zachary's nanny, and had Zelda and Cody, 24, but they separated in 2008.
In 2011 Williams married his third wife, graphic designer Susan Schneider.
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Family first: Zelda is shown arriving
at the premiere of World's Greatest Dad at The Landmark Theater in
August 2009, in Los Angeles along with her father
Williams death was ruled a suicide that resulted from asphyxia caused by hanging.
Susan
Williams has said the actor and comedian was struggling with
depression, anxiety and a recent diagnosis of Parkinson's disease.
Williams
had publicly acknowledged periodic struggles with substance abuse, and
he had entered a substance abuse program shortly before his death.
According
to the coroner's report, his wife told an investigator that Williams
did not go there because of recent drug or alcohol abuse, but rather to
reaffirm the principles of his rehabilitation.
In memoriam: Robin was remembered at the Oscars during the In Memoriam segment
