Overview

• In a live Good Morning Britain interview, the 58-year-old discussed long battles with alcohol, saying he can go months without drinking before short two-day relapses and that AA helped him accept he is an alcoholic.
• Gascoigne apologized after swearing while recalling paranoia during the phone-hacking era and said being sectioned at his father’s insistence proved a turning point.
• Newspaper serialisations from his memoir detail a 1996 incident at Gleneagles in which he says he headbutted and pushed then-wife Sheryl, an episode he regrets and says damaged his reputation.
• He writes that he knew the marriage was a mistake, notes the subsequent divorce, and cites reported payments of £700,000 plus £10,000 per month in maintenance.
• Further extracts recount a pre-Newcastle hit-and-run in which he knocked over a man, panicked and drove off, later receiving a fine and licence points and a stern warning from the club chairman.