Paul Gascoigne is in hospital today following an alleged suicide
attempt at a luxury London hotel. Police were called to the
four-star Millennium hotel in Knightsbridge, west London, at around
3.15pm yesterday.
According to newspaper, Gascoigne had his hair dyed red in a
salon in Kensington on Saturday, before later cutting off all his
hair. He allegedly left the Royal Garden Hotel in Kensington on
Saturday after setting off fire alarms by smoking in his room.
Yesterday he arrived at the Millennium Hotel in Sloane Street
around 1pm, wearing a leopard-print leather jacket and carrying
half a bottle of gin. Staff claimed he ordered a steak from room
service, before cancelling the steak and asking staff just to bring
him the steak knife.
When police were called by worried staff, Gascoigne allegedly
tried to drown himself in the bath, and police had to drag the
former England player out of the water. At first police told
Gascoigne he was being sectioned under the Mental Health Act, but
later agreed he could go to a local hospital without handcuffs.
Gazza is helped across the road to his hotel by a hair salon
employee
It is believed he was taken to London's Chelsea and Westminster
Hospital, where he was kept overnight for tests.
The former England legend has struggled for some time with
alcoholism and depression, and was detained under the Mental Health
Act in February after police were called to a Newcastle hotel
following reports he was acting erratically.
Gascoigne, 40, was released after two weeks of treatment. A
spokeswoman for Scotland Yard confirmed officers were called to a
hotel in the SW1 area of London yesterday afternoon, and a man had
gone to hospital voluntarily. No crime was alleged, she added, so
the matter was no longer one for the police.