Former England football star Paul Gascoigne has one great fear - drinking himself to death like his hero George Best.
According to The Sun, Gazza poured out his anguish at the same health farm where tragic Bestie fought his last vain battle with the bottle.
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But smiling, sun tanned Gazza was drinking bottled water at the same spot yesterday - and looked sober and fighting fit after a three-hour gym workout.
The ex-Spurs and Newcastle star has been in rehab at soccer pal Tony Adams's Sporting Chance Clinic in the grounds of the Champneys health spa at Forest Mere, Hants.
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Gazza said: "I'm humbled when people say I'm the George Best of my generation.
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But what happened to him will always be a lesson to me. I knew George and really felt for him in the end for obvious reasons - our experiences in life had been so similar," he added.
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I called his son Calum and spoke to him when he was at his dad's bedside in hospital. It was a very emotional time," Gazza said.
Like Gazza's, Best's life was a catalogue of drunken episodes, booze-fuelled arrests and domestic bust-ups.
And like Gazza he gave up alcohol many times before relapsing into his old, self-destructive ways.
Gazza said: "I'm an alcoholic like George and I know that - in some ways - my behaviour has been even more self-destructive than his. George never took cocaine. I have admitted that and my problems got so bad that I ended up in a mental hospital.
"But now I'm sober I know that alcoholism affects people in different ways and that if I ever drink again, it will be no one's fault but my own.
Gazza said he is now forced to structure his day around times when he is most at risk of reaching for the bottle.
Therapy, meetings and simple tasks are organised to coincide with his daily moments of weakness, which start at 11am - incredibly the time he used to start drinking.
The soccer hero admitted there had been many tears and tantrums as he clawed his way back to health.
His plunge into the abyss was so deep that in September last year rumours spread that he had been found dead in a North East hotel room.
The story had to be quashed by Northumbria Police.
"I can never say never, I know I might drink again. But I have to hope that I will have the strength to stop before it destroys me.
Source-ANI
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