Following last weekend's unexpected suicide attempt, Owen Wilson has now left hospital and is "doing well" even if it does mean that he's missed the world premiere of that movie about Owen Wilson attempting suicide.
Wes Anderson, the man who has exclusively directed all of the Wilson family's cinematic suicide attempts, revealed at the premiere of his new movie The Darjeeling Limited that Owen Wilson has returned home after being hospitalised for slashing his wrists last Saturday. Not only that, but Owen Wilson is doing well and apparently making everyone laugh a lot. Which goes to show that even after becoming so depressed that he felt the need to try and end his life by tearing a piece of metal through the flesh of his wrists, ensuring that he'll always be known as 'suicide-attempting Owen Wilson' from now on, Owen Wilson is still funnier than Vince Vaughn.
It's been over a week now since the shocking news of Owen Wilson's suicide attempt broke out, and the reaction to it is still as stunned as it ever was, even though police log books prove beyond doubt that it really was a suicide attempt. Why would Owen Wilson try to kill himself? Can one man really hate the Dalai Lama that much? Was it heartbreak over seeing his old girlfriend Kate Hudson kissing another man? Could it have been something about a boobyflash?
The details surrounding Owen Wilson's suicide attempt are still nothing more than idle speculation, either from tabloid magazines or Courtney Love, who basically just yelled "Steve Coogan! Steve Coogan!" in the style of Donald Sutherland at the end of Invasion Of The Body Snatchers. However, what is clear now is that Owen Wilson has left hospital following his suicide attempt and is now slowly recovering at home. We know this because Wes Anderson, one of Owen Wilson's oldest friends and his director in Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenembaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and the forthcoming The Darjeeling Limited, told reporters at the Venice Film Festival premiere of The Darjeeling Limited. People reports:
"When he's ready he's going to speak for himself much better than anyone else could," Anderson told reporters in Venice on Sunday. "He has a very good way with words." …"I just want you to know how excited I am to have the film showing here… It means a great deal to me, and it also means a great deal to Owen, who wants me to express to you how much it means to him and to say that he wishes he could be with us." Anderson added: "We all miss having him here very much. Obviously he's been through a lot this week but he's doing well and he's been making us laugh a lot."
Although Owen Wilson is reportedly in a 'bad mental state' – which you'd sort of expect – it's reassuring to see that he's already well enough to return home and recouperate surrounded by his loved ones. Hopefully Owen Wilson will have completely recovered enough to movingly express the indescribably pain he must have felt that drove him to attempt suicide in such a shockingly harrowing way as part of the promotion for his next movie, goofy knockabout teen comedy Drillbit Taylor.
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haaa-doou-ken says
i love this guy, zoolander was sick!