Editing Buzz Aldrin (section)

=== Post retirement ===
Aldrin's father died on December 28, 1974, from complications following a [[heart attack]].{{sfn|Aldrin|Abraham|2009|pp=147–148}} Aldrin's autobiographies, ''Return to Earth'' (1973) and ''[[Magnificent Desolation (book)|Magnificent Desolation]]'' (2009), recounted his struggles with [[clinical depression]] and [[alcoholism]] in the years after leaving NASA.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/robin-williams-death/robin-williams-death-reminds-buzz-aldrin-his-own-struggle-n179051 |title=Robin Williams' Death Reminds Buzz Aldrin of His Own Struggle |date=August 12, 2014 |last=Seida |first=Jim |access-date=October 21, 2018 |work=NBC News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first1=Chris |last1=Chandler |first2=Andy |last2=Rose |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/07/17/life.after.moon.landing/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140115022318/http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/07/17/life.after.moon.landing/ |archive-date=January 15, 2014 |work=CNN |title=After walking on moon, astronauts trod various paths |url-status=live |access-date=April 27, 2010 |date=July 17, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://bipolar.about.com/od/businessmenpoliticians/p/buzzaldrin.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080928142550/http://bipolar.about.com/od/businessmenpoliticians/p/buzzaldrin.htm |archive-date=September 28, 2008 |title=Buzz Aldrin |work=Bipolar |publisher=About |first=Kimberly |last=Read |date=January 4, 2005 |access-date=November 2, 2008}}</ref> Encouraged by a therapist to take a regular job, Aldrin worked selling used cars, at which he had no talent.{{sfn|Aldrin|Abraham|2009|pp=165–166}} Periods of hospitalization and sobriety alternated with bouts of heavy drinking. Eventually he was arrested for [[disorderly conduct]]. Finally, in October 1978, he quit drinking for good. Aldrin attempted to help others with drinking problems, including actor [[William Holden]]. Holden's girlfriend [[Stefanie Powers]] had portrayed Marianne, a woman with whom Aldrin had an affair, in the 1976 [[Return to Earth (film)|TV movie version of ''Return to Earth'']]. Aldrin was saddened by Holden's alcohol-related death in 1981.{{sfn|Aldrin|Abraham|2009|pp=170–173}}