Dallas Cowboys receiver Terrell Owens was reportedly hospitalized Tuesday night after what is being called an allergic reaction to pain medication. FOX News is reporting that Owens may have attempted suicide. FOX News Channel says that KDFW/Channel 4 in Dallas initially made this claim.
KTVT/Channel 11 is reporting that a woman named "Etheridge," likely Owens' publicist Kim Ethridge, called police and reported a suicide attempt. The station said Owens ingested 35 pills. According to the Dallas Police Department incident report, Owens told police he took more than 30 pills in a suicide attempt. A news conference is scheduled for later today during "working hours."
"This is not serious," Owens' publicist Kim Etheridge said in Wednesday's online edition of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. | Kim will be hitting the meds herself later. |
| Because suicide attempts are never serious, anyone with any psychiatric training knows that. Do publicists really get paid to say such remarkably stoopid things? |
The AP reports that no teammates or Cowboys officials were seen entering the hospital late Tuesday night. | Gee, I can't understand why. |
Owens' status for Sunday's game against Tennessee is not immediately known. He was expected to practice Wednesday for the first time since breaking the bone leading to his right ring finger a week ago Sunday night. | "I sense a great disturbance in the Force. It's as if milions of Cowboys fans cried out in terror and were suddenly silent." |
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