Overview

• He recounts that false online reports of his death spread during treatment, recalling a stranger who told him they thought he had died.
• He says broadcaster Chris Evans and former players Alan Shearer and Danny Baker helped him enter the Arizona programme in 2013.
• Gascoigne says he sometimes revisits the clinic to remember the severity of that period and believes another facility might not have saved him.
• The former England international now lives on the south coast after returning from the US and has continued recovery efforts.
• His memoir, Eight, published by Mirror Books/Reach Sport on October 23, includes these accounts and notes he does not plan to attend next year’s World Cup.