Paul Gascoigne admitted that his previous habit to Calpol obtained him “barred from every chemist in Newcastle”.
The England legend has been open about his struggles with habit all through his life, having fought with alcoholism because the Nineties.
Alongside his hassle with consuming, the 56-year-old revealed that he was as soon as hooked on Calpol – a kids’s medication used to deal with fever and relieve ache.
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Speaking on the High Performance podcast, the previous Tottenham and Newcastle star admitted: “Rehab, I’ve never been for drugs ever, and probably for drink I’ve probably been two or three times, the others, I’ve been for Calpol. I went to rehab because I couldn’t get off Calpol.”
When host Jake Humphrey requested Gascoigne: “You couldn’t get off Calpol?”, he defined his reasoning behind his habit to the medication as he stated: “Because Calpol has 0.0001% of alcohol, so I thought if I have 20 bottles of it, that’s the equivalent of a pint.”
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The Gateshead native added that his habit precipitated him to be barred from each chemist in Newcastle as he stated his retort could be: “I’d say listen, ‘I’ve got three wives and nine kids, I need Calpol’. It was mad.”
Calpol wasn’t the one battle Gascoigne was compelled to contend as he additionally went to rehab for a debilitating habit to Red Bull. “Red Bull was horrific from the caffeine,” he stated again in 2018. Sometimes I used to be consuming as much as 30 cans a day and doing the health club twice a day. I wasn’t good.
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“I knew the withdrawal was coming off the caffeine. I’d been six months sober and the caffeine withdrawal was horrific.” Gazza has lengthy struggled with psychological well being points and was recognized with bipolar dysfunction in 2001 and has since been recognized with obsessive compulsive dysfunction (OCD), alongside his son Regan.
The Three Lions nice opened about a number of the compulsions he had whereas taking part in for his nation. “I remember England manager Terry Venables going mad because when I’d go on to the pitch I’d be ready, and once we had kicked off I had to tie my laces again, just the right foot,” he revealed.
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“The game could have been going on but I’m just tying my shoelace. He’d be like, ‘What are you doing that for?’ I had to. And I didn’t wear pants on the pitch either.”