Terrell Owens Tries To Commit Suicide
Football player Terrell Owens, from the Dallas Cowboys, tried to commit suicide Tuesday evening.
Lt. Rick Watson, a spokesman for the police department, said police were called to Owens’ residence shortly before 8 p.m. Central Time by paramedics who were already there treating him. He said no criminal activity took place and there was no police investigation under way.
He declined to provide further details, but a police report posted online by WFAA television in Dallas said Owens was “attempting suicide by prescription pain medication.� The medication was apparently to treat the pain of broken bone in his right hand suffered in a game on Sept. 17 against the Washington Redskins.
According to the report, Owens told police that he was depressed in an interview at Baylor Hospital, where he was taken for treatment. A woman companion said she noticed him putting two of the pain pills in his mouth and attempted to remove them.
Well, I assume that it is safe to say that one is ‘depressed’ when one tries to kill oneself.
It is, quite clearly, an incredibly sad thing. How people can get so depressed that they are willing to kill themselves, to get rid of that horrible feeling, is something a lot of people do not understand. I dare to say that it is not understandable for rational thinking people.
At the moment a person tries to commit suicide they have already lost all rationality.
Anyway: this has, without a doubt, been an incredibly dark period in Terrell’s life. I hope that he gets through it. Now is decision day for him: he needs to receive great support; both from his family, from his team and from professionals.
In the end though, it is his decision to work on his problems or not. Lets hope he does.
8 Responses to “Terrell Owens Tries To Commit Suicide”
As a life long Eagles fan (from So Cal of all places) I am not the biggest TO fan. However despite my feelings on his antics and attitude it is very sad to hear this story. I hope TO is able to recover and get back on the field at some point this season.
As a life long Eagles fan (from So Cal of all places) I am not the biggest TO fan. However despite my feelings on his antics and attitude it is very sad to hear this story. I hope TO is able to recover and get back on the field at some point this season.
Sorry for the snark, but he didn’t try hard enough. He tried the suicide with a girlfriend present.
His publicist has denied the story. Let’s see what happens over time.
The “official” reports I’ve been hearing are an allergic reaction and that he’s been complaining that the pain medication has been making him sick since he started taking it. Not sure if this was truly a suicide attempt or just sensationalism but taking 2 pills as a suicide attempt doesn’t sound all that realistic. Either way, even though I’m not a TO fan by any stretch of imagination, I wish him a speedy recovery and hope to see him back on the field soon.
I happened to catch this by accident on TV news. He said that he had been groggy from the medication and was in the habit of taking a lot of nutritional supplements and sort of confused the two, or something like that. It’s quite possible, since prescription narcotics can do some very strange things to your thinking, depending on the particular narcotic and your own idiosyncatic response to it…I’ve heard some strange stories.
Who knows. But, FWIW, that’s what I heard him say himself.
Michael, I think you may have jumped the gun in asserting this as fact.
as the son of a successful suicider, and nearly oen myself, i say this with all due respect: i don’t believe him.
he realized he was going to be out of the headlines for a while, and tried to change that.