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Paul Gascoigne | Gazza | Suicide watch | The Sun |HomePage|News
COKE-crazed ace Paul Gascoigne stunned hotel staff before being sent to a psychiatric unit by answering his door in the buff — with “MAD” scrawled on his forehead.
The fallen soccer hero’s only companions while he remained holed up in his room on a two-month drugs and booze binge were battery-operated PARROTS.
Ex-England ace Gazza, 40, would talk to one of them as if it were real, a source revealed.
He also wandered around the hotel with them under his arm, getting them to squawk “f*** off” to fellow guests.
The insider — who told how women staff were barred from Gazza’s room because he kept flashing at them — said: “He’s also been ordering plates of raw liver to his room.
“Then he leaves it and eats it the next day. He says it’s good for his blood.”
The bizarre behaviour was revealed following Gazza’s arrest on Wednesday night after he allegedly set off the fire alarm at the £240-a-night Malmaison hotel in his hometown of Gateshead and was asked to leave.
Paranoid
He tried to check into the nearby Hilton — and was arrested over a “disturbance” when he was refused a room.
Last night Gazza was on suicide watch in a secure psychiatric unit after being sectioned under the Mental Health Act.
Beater ... Gazza with Sheryl
He was taken to the private Middleton St George Hospital near Darlington, Co Durham, in a police van. A source said:
He was raving in the back of the van, banging the sides and shouting his head off.
He was clearly under the influence of drugs. One moment he would be bouncing around, wanting to shake people’s hands.
Then he would slump in a chair, his head would fall back and his eyes would roll.
All the signs indicated he had taken a large amount of cocaine. He kept talking about cocaine and was seriously paranoid. He was saying the hotel room service and takeaway delivery boys had forced him to take it.
Someone said to him that he must have paid for it but he said he hadn’t paid for anything for years. When he had calmed down a bit he said he was just glad to be away from Newcastle because he was sick of people there stitching him up.
The Sun told earlier this month how troubled Gazza had been spending all day playing his Nintendo Wii in his room at the Malmaison. The source said:
He was getting treble whiskies delivered to his room all the time.
On lash ... sozzled in 1996
He’d been having medication following a major hip operation in December — and the staff were worried about him mixing tablets and alcohol.
Managers were obviously concerned for him. But they were also terrified their hotel would become known as the hotel where the former Spurs star drank himself to death. Other staff were getting sick of him.
He was exposing himself all the time and it got to the point where only male staff would be sent to his room.
He answered the door one day with ‘MAD’ scrawled on his forehead in what looked like eyeliner. He also had this plastic parrot which he kept talking to as if it was a real one.
He was clearly losing it but he was just on his own all the time. He had one or two visitors but there was no one coming regularly to see if he was OK. The final straw came when he set the fire alarm off and they asked him to leave.
Gazza, who has fought a long battle with drink and drugs, launched into his latest bender before Christmas. He checked into the Malmaison three weeks ago — after he was kicked out of the Gateshead Marriott.
Marriott staff were also worried about his booze and drugs bender.
Pie-eyed ... Gazza in 2006
Xposure
A source said: “He was doing a lot of cocaine — it must have been hundreds of pounds a day. Staff became really worried when they couldn’t wake him for a couple of days — and they eventually kicked him out.” A source at the Malmaison said of Gazza’s parrots: “They say mad things when you press them like, ‘Give us a kiss,’ and ‘F*** off’.
“He’s been walking around the hotel with them under his arm making them talk to the guests.”
On one occasion Gazza rang the night porter to order more batteries.
Tackle
On another he summoned a young member of staff saying one of his parrots was missing. The source said: “The poor lad thought Gazza had a live parrot that had flown out the window. When he got to the room Gazza stood there with a parrot under each arm making them say, ‘F*** off, f*** off’.” The insider said that after Gazza set off the fire alarm he refused to heed the evacuation — arguing with the night porter and grabbing him by the neck.
Hotel spokesman Nigel Massey said: “There was a bit of grabbing and a bit of verbal but I’m told the porter is fine.” Last night Gazza was in the secure Rowan Unit at Middleton St George Hospital suffering drug-induced psychosis.
Messages from fans flooded the Sun Online website wishing a speedy recovery to the former midfielder — who famously burst into tears when he was booked in the 1990 World Cup semi-final.
The following year a horror tackle he made in the FA Cup final left him with a crocked knee and cast a shadow over the rest of his career. By 1993 — aged just 26 — he was already battling the booze. The following year he admitted beating fiancee Sheryl Kyle. She forgave him but within three months of their 1996 wedding he attacked her again.
The run-up to Euro 96 also saw the infamous Dentist Chair antics — where England players had booze poured down their throats.
In 1998 Gazza spent the first of many spells in rehab. Last night there was no comment from his family as he finally hit rock bottom. Sister Anna-Marie said: “I don’t know anything about it.”
Gazza’s best mate Jimmy “Five Bellies” Gardner said: “I don’t know anything.”
Paul Gascoigne | Gazza | Suicide watch | The Sun |HomePage|News
COKE-crazed ace Paul Gascoigne stunned hotel staff before being sent to a psychiatric unit by answering his door in the buff — with “MAD” scrawled on his forehead.
The fallen soccer hero’s only companions while he remained holed up in his room on a two-month drugs and booze binge were battery-operated PARROTS.
Ex-England ace Gazza, 40, would talk to one of them as if it were real, a source revealed.
He also wandered around the hotel with them under his arm, getting them to squawk “f*** off” to fellow guests.
The insider — who told how women staff were barred from Gazza’s room because he kept flashing at them — said: “He’s also been ordering plates of raw liver to his room.
“Then he leaves it and eats it the next day. He says it’s good for his blood.”
The bizarre behaviour was revealed following Gazza’s arrest on Wednesday night after he allegedly set off the fire alarm at the £240-a-night Malmaison hotel in his hometown of Gateshead and was asked to leave.
Paranoid
He tried to check into the nearby Hilton — and was arrested over a “disturbance” when he was refused a room.
Last night Gazza was on suicide watch in a secure psychiatric unit after being sectioned under the Mental Health Act.
Beater ... Gazza with Sheryl
He was taken to the private Middleton St George Hospital near Darlington, Co Durham, in a police van. A source said:
He was raving in the back of the van, banging the sides and shouting his head off.
He was clearly under the influence of drugs. One moment he would be bouncing around, wanting to shake people’s hands.
Then he would slump in a chair, his head would fall back and his eyes would roll.
All the signs indicated he had taken a large amount of cocaine. He kept talking about cocaine and was seriously paranoid. He was saying the hotel room service and takeaway delivery boys had forced him to take it.
Someone said to him that he must have paid for it but he said he hadn’t paid for anything for years. When he had calmed down a bit he said he was just glad to be away from Newcastle because he was sick of people there stitching him up.
The Sun told earlier this month how troubled Gazza had been spending all day playing his Nintendo Wii in his room at the Malmaison. The source said:
He was getting treble whiskies delivered to his room all the time.
On lash ... sozzled in 1996
He’d been having medication following a major hip operation in December — and the staff were worried about him mixing tablets and alcohol.
Managers were obviously concerned for him. But they were also terrified their hotel would become known as the hotel where the former Spurs star drank himself to death. Other staff were getting sick of him.
He was exposing himself all the time and it got to the point where only male staff would be sent to his room.
He answered the door one day with ‘MAD’ scrawled on his forehead in what looked like eyeliner. He also had this plastic parrot which he kept talking to as if it was a real one.
He was clearly losing it but he was just on his own all the time. He had one or two visitors but there was no one coming regularly to see if he was OK. The final straw came when he set the fire alarm off and they asked him to leave.
Gazza, who has fought a long battle with drink and drugs, launched into his latest bender before Christmas. He checked into the Malmaison three weeks ago — after he was kicked out of the Gateshead Marriott.
Marriott staff were also worried about his booze and drugs bender.
Pie-eyed ... Gazza in 2006
Xposure
A source said: “He was doing a lot of cocaine — it must have been hundreds of pounds a day. Staff became really worried when they couldn’t wake him for a couple of days — and they eventually kicked him out.” A source at the Malmaison said of Gazza’s parrots: “They say mad things when you press them like, ‘Give us a kiss,’ and ‘F*** off’.
“He’s been walking around the hotel with them under his arm making them talk to the guests.”
On one occasion Gazza rang the night porter to order more batteries.
Tackle
On another he summoned a young member of staff saying one of his parrots was missing. The source said: “The poor lad thought Gazza had a live parrot that had flown out the window. When he got to the room Gazza stood there with a parrot under each arm making them say, ‘F*** off, f*** off’.” The insider said that after Gazza set off the fire alarm he refused to heed the evacuation — arguing with the night porter and grabbing him by the neck.
Hotel spokesman Nigel Massey said: “There was a bit of grabbing and a bit of verbal but I’m told the porter is fine.” Last night Gazza was in the secure Rowan Unit at Middleton St George Hospital suffering drug-induced psychosis.
Messages from fans flooded the Sun Online website wishing a speedy recovery to the former midfielder — who famously burst into tears when he was booked in the 1990 World Cup semi-final.
The following year a horror tackle he made in the FA Cup final left him with a crocked knee and cast a shadow over the rest of his career. By 1993 — aged just 26 — he was already battling the booze. The following year he admitted beating fiancee Sheryl Kyle. She forgave him but within three months of their 1996 wedding he attacked her again.
The run-up to Euro 96 also saw the infamous Dentist Chair antics — where England players had booze poured down their throats.
In 1998 Gazza spent the first of many spells in rehab. Last night there was no comment from his family as he finally hit rock bottom. Sister Anna-Marie said: “I don’t know anything about it.”
Gazza’s best mate Jimmy “Five Bellies” Gardner said: “I don’t know anything.”
