Paul Gascoigne returns home in his slippers after being rushed to hospital last week
PAUL GASCOIGNE has left hospital and is at home safe and well after being 'found slumped outside his home in Dorset' last week.
The football star looked healthy as he arrived back at his home with a carrier bag of belongings, wearing a clean white shirt.
The former England footballer was rushed to hospital on Thursday after paramedics and police found him on the ground, allegedly clutching a bottle of vodka.
Dressed in a pair of combat shorts and a slogan T-shirt, the 47-year-old looked puffy-faced and frail as he was pictured being taken away from his rented apartment by a police officer.
Arriving back at his home this morning, Paul was still wearing his hair long and slicked back and sported the same slippers he wore to the hospital before the weekend.
The former England player was reportedly being treated at Poole Hospital.
The troubled father-of-three has been battling alcoholism for a number years and his latest rehab stint was in January, when he checked into a £6,000-a-month clinic in Southampton.
Speaking to the Daily Mirror, a source said: "It is very sad. But the reality is that Paul has been drinking for the past few weeks and once that happens things will only end one way.
"Today things came to a head. He has had a lot on his plate as he is in the process of trying to find somewhere to live."
They added: "His landlord has given him 10 days to leave the flat and it was weighing on his mind
"Obviously things became too much for him."
In February last year, some footballing legends - including Gary Lineker and Steven Gerrard - shared the cost to send him to the £7,500-a-week Cottonwood Clinic in Arizona.
However, the former Lazio star came close to death when the treatment clinic tried to detox him but ended up rushing him to hospital instead.
Speaking about his near-death experience previously, he said: "‘I went two years without a drink and then...
"I remember one day in the hospital someone saying I wouldn’t make it. I didn’t want to die. People say, 'Why do you drink?' I don’t know, I didn’t ask to be an alcoholic in the same way people don’t ask to be diabetic.
"I’m an alcoholic. I wish I wasn’t but I am. I have my bad days and if I have a good day I make the most of it."