Owen Wilson

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I find this news very sad, and hope that it had nothing to do with Kate, because, yuck.

[scarlet]

huntergrayson said:

So, according to Perez, Owen just released this statement:

“I respectfully ask that the media allow me to receive care and heal in private during this difficult time,” the actor said in a statement released through his publicist on Monday.

I'm waiting to see this statement pop up on a reliable website, but it looks like the suicide thing is true.

It's on People's site now, too. Definitely sounds like a suicide attempt.

[Ladybug]

It's really sad. He seems like a nice guy and is definitely talented. I hope he gets help and gets better.

I really don't think this had to do with Kate Hudson. They only dated briefly and broke up months ago. I suspect he's had deep issues with drugs/depression for awhile now, and those problems might have contributed to his breakup with her.

[strawberrylover]

That's terrible.

He never struck me as the self-loathing type. I don't know anything about what he's like IRL, but all I know is that I like his movies. I loved him in The Royal Tenenbaums.

Peter Bradley: [Eli is on drugs while being interviewed on television] Now, your previous novel...
Eli: Yes, "wildcat".
Peter Bradley: Not a success. Why?
Eli: Well... wildcat was written in a kind of obselete vernacular...
[long pause]
Eli: ... wildcat... wild... cat...
[he stares into space]
Eli: ... pow... wildcat... I'm going to go.

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It kind of makes you wonder how much the lovable but self-destructive Eli Cash was based on Owen himself.

I've found that this quote is very useful in daily life:

Well, everyone knows Custer died at Little Bighorn. What this book presupposes is... maybe he didn't.

[secretoflife]

Didn't Sheryl Crow write "My Favorite Mistake" about him? I think they were quite an item for a while (pre-Lance Armstrong).

[thecupcakekid]

I remember that. He treated her like crap, right? I remember Ted at E! (back before he was useless) had a sighting of him leaving Crow at a bar to be with Gina Gershon.

[Mutagen]

Yeah, I thought about the addictive character in The Royal Tenenbaums, too. And now that I think about it, Luke Wilson's character began the movie Bottle Rocket "escaping" from a mental hospital.

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I'm sorry to hear about this. I'm not really a fan, but I wish him well.

[WestEndGirl]

I'm confused by the Kate Hudson references. Are people implying that this is a result of their breakup or something Kate did/said?

I don't mean to take this thread in another direction, but I would imagine whatever he was dealing with was going on well before Kate came into the picture, and if she was even aware of any of his issues, she likely couldn't have stopped it.

I'm sorry, I lost a boyfriend to suicide, and there was a lot of finger-pointing to the girlfriend. It took me years to deal with that.