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Paul Gascoigne: former footballer's battle with drink, drug addiction and depression
Paul Gascoigne, the former England footballer, was in hospital on Monday following a car crash. He has battled drink, drug addiction, bulimia, bipolar disorder and depression over the years. Here is a description of some of the former Tottenham Hotspur player's lows.
The former footballer commonly referred to as "Gazza" has described his problems in two autobiographies - 'Gazza: My Story' and Being Gazza: Tackling My Demons'.
In the books he describes showing signs of obsessive complusive disorder as a child and was prone to shoplifting.
Gascoigne married Sheryl Failes in 1996 but they divorced two years later. In his books Gascoigne admitted beating his wife.
As a player he admitted drinking heavily and eating late-night kebabs. Before Euro 1996 he was photographed drinking alcohol in a dentist's chair.
After being left out of England's World Cup 1998 squad he smashed up the room of manager Glenn Hoddle.
Since his playing career ended in 2004 Gascoigne's problems with alcoholism, drug addiction and mental illness have worsened. He admitted that retiring from football "ripped his heart out".
Since retiring the 43-year-old has been sectioned three times under the Mental Health Act and has described how, when he hit rock bottom, he was snorting cocaine and drinking a litre of gin a day, which left him delusional and afraid to leave his room.
In 2004 he stated that he wished to be called G8 - a combination of his initial and his old playing number.
The former England hero went public about his continuing battle with addiction in March last year, telling BBC Radio 5 Live's Victoria Derbyshire he had been clean of drink and drugs for four months, working the 12 Steps Programme and attending Alcoholics Anonymous.
He has spoken of how a binge at Newcastle's Malmaison Hotel in 2008 left him believing battery-operated toy parrots were speaking to him, and led to his arrest and sectioning under the Mental Health Act after he threatened to harm himself.
Gascoigne, whose career included spells at Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur, Lazio, Rangers, Middlesbrough and Everton, lives alone in a plush penthouse apartment in Jesmond, an upmarket suburb of Newcastle.
He is due to face Northallerton Magistrates on July 28 on a drink-driving charge, after he was arrested in February following a fishing trip in North Yorkshire.
He has pleaded not guilty to drink-driving and will face trial.