I Interviewed A Man With Terrifying Psychosis. His Name Is Paul Gascoigne
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Everyone knows that Paul Gascoigne suffers with alcoholism and psychosis.
But I had no idea about the root cause.
When Paul was a child, he told his friend to ran out of the shops. He did - and got hit by a car. Paul held his body, while his lips still moved. The next day, he was told to do something extraordinary and terrifying: to go and hug and kiss the dead boy in his coffin in the family house.
From that moment, Paul developed tics and obsessions…and eventually led to the man we know today.
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Three Things I Learned Talking to Gazza
When a ten-year-old holds a dead child on his lap for twenty minutes and nobody helps him - that fucks a guy up. It' started a fifty-year illness.
Psychosis doesn’t look like what you think. It looks like turning up to a police siege with chicken and a fishing rod because you genuinely believe you can help.
Everyone told him he’d be all right. He said it himself. Inside, he wasn’t. And most people never are.