To the World David Was the Golden Star of Baywatch. To Me He Was the Man Who Fell Over Drunk On the Bedroom Floor ; in a Powerful Interview ,David Hasselhoff's Wife Reveals How His Spectacular Drinking Turned Their Marriage Into a Vortex of Recrimination and Cruelty

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SLUMPED in front of an empty minibar in an anonymous hotel room, David Hasselhoff somehow managed to concentrate for long enough to phone home.

'I'm drunk and I think I'm dying,' the veteran star of Baywatch and Knight Rider slurred to his wife. Then the line went dead.

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To the World David Was the Golden Star of Baywatch. To Me He Was the Man Who Fell Over Drunk On the Bedroom Floor ; in a Powerful Interview ,David Hasselhoff's Wife Reveals How His Spectacular Drinking Turned Their Marriage Into a Vortex of Recrimination and Cruelty

It was June 2002 and for Pamela Bach Hasselhoff the call came like a hammer blow. 'It was only two days after I had dropped him off at the Betty Ford Centre in Palm Springs,' she says with tears welling in her eyes. 'After years of drinking, he'd finally admitted he had a problem and had agreed to go into rehab. It had all been such a huge relief. But then I got that phone call.

'I called the clinic and discovered he had checked out. I knew I had to go to him. I chartered a private plane and flew from LA to Palm Springs.' Pamela learned that David had been taken to a local hospital, but didn't know which one. 'I got into a taxi and went to every hospital until I found him.' She discovered late...

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