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Tonya
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Post Number: 3217
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, September 27, 2006 - 12:07 pm: | 
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Sep 27, 2006 8:39 am US/Pacific
Police: NFL Star Terrell Owens Attempts Suicide
Controversial Dallas Player Tells Authorities He Overdosed On Painkillers
(CBS News) DALLAS Flamboyant Dallas Cowboys receiver Terrell Owens tried to kill himself by overdosing on pain medication, police said, even putting two more pills into his mouth after a friend intervened.
An initial news report had said that Owens had suffered an "allergic reaction" to his medication, but Gina Miller of CBS affiliate KTVT saw him on a gurney being wheeled into Baylor Medical Center.
A Dallas police report released Wednesday morning said Owens told his friend "that he was depressed."
The female friend, who is not identified in the report, "noticed that (his) prescription pain medication was empty and observed (Owens) putting two pills in his mouth," the police report said.
The friend attempted to pry them out with her fingers, then was told by Owens that before this incident he'd taken only five of the 40 pain pills in the bottle he'd emptied. Owens was asked by rescue workers "if he was attempting to harm himself, at which time (he) stated, 'Yes.'"
The police report says Owens was treated by Baylor staff for a drug overdose. Doctors reportedly tried to induce vomiting.
Owens is recovering from a broken right hand he hurt a week ago Sunday. He had an operation the next day to have a plate screwed in, enabling the bone to heal without being further injured. Dallas Cowboys coach Bill Parcells said last week that the pain medicine made Owens ill.
The Cowboys were off this past weekend and Owens was back at practice Tuesday, although he worked out on his own. Parcells said Owens' hand was improving and he was expected back on the practice field Wednesday. Owens chatted briefly with reporters in the locker room Tuesday afternoon and seemed fine.
Owens, one of the league's top receivers during his 11-year NFL career, is best known for wild stunts on the field and other publicity-seeking antics off it.
When the Cowboys signed him to a $25 million, three-year deal in March, they said their background checks indicated no red flags. In fact, team consultant Calvin Hill — who mostly deals with troubled players — said during training camp that his department was not involved with Owens because he didn't have a history of those kinds of problems.
A hospital spokeswoman said early Wednesday there was no patient registered as Terrell Owens, although federal privacy laws allow people to block their name from being released.
Owens had been especially looking forward to the Cowboys' game after that — Oct. 8, in Philadelphia, against the team that dumped him midway through last season only months after he helped them nearly win the Super Bowl.
Owens was seen laughing and joking on the practice field Tuesday morning. He chatted briefly with reporters in the locker room in the afternoon and seemed fine. A 2-inch scar on the top of his hand was puffy but not wrapped, and he said the swelling was doing down.
While in the locker room, he took a pill from a white paper bag and looked at another medicine bottle that was in the bag. He also called a business partner about a towel-wrap venture they're starting and joked to TV cameras that he wasn't talking until Wednesday and today was only Tuesday.
"My little boy knows better than that," he said, laughing, as he plopped onto a sofa in the middle of the locker room.
Also Tuesday, Owens was involved in launching a national campaign for the National Alliance to End Abuse, an organization aimed at helping at-risk youngsters. He appeared at a high school Tuesday morning and was scheduled to visit others but had to cancel because of changes in the team's practice schedule.
A hospital spokeswoman said early Wednesday there was no patient registered as Terrell Owens, although federal privacy laws allow people to block their name from being released. Owens' publicist and agent, and the Cowboys, did not return repeated calls from The Associated Press. No teammates or Cowboys officials were seen entering the hospital late Tuesday night.
(© 2006 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)
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Mzuri
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Tonya
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, September 27, 2006 - 04:20 pm: |
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(Naw seriously) I really feel sorry for this guy. His depression--if he is indeed depressed and suicidal--is nothing to play with, especially if it's gotten to the point of suicide. To compound the problem, he obviously does not have the right people around him. According to his "publicist," Terrell has "25 million reasons to live." I can't believe she said that shit. It just goes to show the mentality of the type of he's with; which is disturbing because someone who is depressed and suicidal definitely needs a better support system than that..sad.
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Yvettep
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Tonya: I agree 100%.
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Ntfs_encryption
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Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, September 27, 2006 - 09:06 pm: |
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”(Naw seriously) I really feel sorry for this guy. His depression--if he is indeed depressed and suicidal--is nothing to play with, especially if it's gotten to the point of suicide. To compound the problem, he obviously does………… someone who is depressed and suicidal definitely needs a better support system than that..sad.”
Sad yes, but I don’t feel sorry for him. Owens is a self absorbed prima dona who is only concerned about himself and the attention he gets. The man is a toxic team player and because of his confrontational arrogance and his ”it’s all about me attitude”, he was dismissed by the Forty Niners and the Eagles. Despite his tremendous athleticism and talent, he is the most disruptive and narcissistic player I have ever seen. This suicide rues is just another page in his pathetic drama immersed life. The man has none of the team player spirit and professionalism that was the hall mark of a great receiver like Jerry Rice. Despite his phenomenal skill, his juvenile delinquent behavior and addiction to theatrics will not allow him in the Foot Ball Hall of fame. The man is his own worst enemy.
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Chrishayden
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, September 28, 2006 - 01:18 pm: |
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I believe it was all a stunt:
Terrell is a massive ball of insecurities and ego that must be massaged and fed all the time like a big baby--but very often that's the kind of guy who excels at things.
He couldn't stand the idea of being out with the broken finger and nobody talking about him.
If he produces on the field it will be dismissed as another quirk. |
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