David Hasselhoff's Family Has Had Enough
Help him, please!
Following his seizure and hospitalization due to his alcoholism, David Hasselhoff's family is reaching out to friends and fans of The Hoff to help save his life.
David's ex-wife Pamela has release a statement to the public revealing that the family can no longer continue to help The Hoff, as he resists their love and attempts to get him into rehab.
Writes Pamela:
The despair, feeling hopeless and unable to believe that things can ever change with David’s alcoholism over the years has affected our whole family. We want our lives to be different, but nothing we have done has brought about change. We ask David’s fans, supporters and handlers to take swift action to save this wonderful man’s life. I have always been close to my daughters to comfort and support them as well always being there for David. We will be forever hurt from this cruel disease. I am grateful for our two daughters who have been incredibly brave, strong and protective souls.
The Hoff seriously needs to wise up and realize what he's losing at the expense of his disease!
Get help NOW!
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What they don't realize is they need to pull outta his life. Alone and with no one to turn to, only then will he hit rock bottom. That's what he needs- if they're always there to pick up the pieces, he will always give them pieces.
Easier said than done
So sad. My father has the same problem and it's really hard to watch him kill himself everyday. I feel for her and and daughters. It's hard to help someone who doesn't think they have a problem. Stay strong.
HE'LL HAVE TO WANT TO HELP HIMSELF!
Yeah…and Perez when will YOU get help for your narcissism? You really need to wise up and realize what you are losing at the expense of your disease!
GET HELP NOW!!!!
SOOOOO sick of the overuse of the word "disease". a disease isn't something you can will yourself into fixing. a friend of mine recently died of cancer. I wish her disease could have been cured by walking away from a bottle. this man needs a real problem. grow up or die- can't say it any clearer. -and be thankful you have the choice to cure your "disease"!!!
Did his ex-wife forget about her f'n DUI? Talk about the pot calling the kettle black! I have been through all of this in my family and YES, it is horrible. Sweep around your own doorstep before releasing press statements about others.
HIs family needs to go to Al Anon and take care of themselves. He's the only one who can help himself.
So sad but unless he admits he has a problem he'll never seek help. My father died an alcoholic after years of denial. I hope for his daughters' sake he wakes up and realizes just how sick he is and gets some help.
Can't his ex-wife, a lawyer or one of his "handlers" do a California 5150 and have him forcibly committed to a REHAB facility before he kills himself or someone else (if he's driving while intoxicated)??
Uh, didn't Pamela just receive a DUI a week or two ago? Pot calling the kettle black???
She's obnoxious and a drama queen.
Re: Perez=Jackass –
I watched the video and it's hilarious! Interesting how Perez didn't put THAT on this site! hahahaha Thanks for the info…it was my best laugh for the day.
uh hello Pamela—how about working on your own little drinking problem too?
WOW he looks bad too ! And is that bags of mop heads or Weed? LOL
Ahhh- from the same woman busted for DUI two weeks ago??? Hypocrite. She has no right to comment on her ex like this - seems to me she is using his problems to try and make herself look better.
It's sad .. major alcoholism .. how is he still alive? I wish him luck.
Re: gobux001 –
Well said. I agree with you. It is a very real problem, but I find it so hard to consider it a "disease."
She just got a DUI and she's talking about HIS problem?! Those poor kids!
Um, Pamela just got her second DUI a few weeks ago–so I don't see how she can be of that much help to him. I just feel very sorry for the daughters having two parents with substance abuse problems. Good luck to them.
Sure, he needs help. But, didn't she just get arrested for DUI? How is that any better? Sounds like they both need some therapy for the sake of their health and kids!
Alcoholics literally hold their family hostage from real happiness. I know it is an addiction - but it is an incredible selfish addiction.
Leave him. Now.
Re: gobux001 – Thank you. Alcoholism is an addiction, not a disease. The medical industry has brainwashed people into accepting it as disease because it alters your brain chemestry by depleting seratonin, dopamine, etc. And then a person needs to keep on using in order to release these "feel good" chemicals and neorotransmitters. So they tell people because their brain isn't functioning right they have a disease. Any addiction will do this. What they don't tell you is that there is a cure. Stay away from addictive substances and get proper nutrition and lots of exercise and your brain will return to normal. (unless, of course, you have suffered permanent brain damage). But alcoholism/drug addiction in itself is not a disease and people completely overcome it all the time.
She's got her alcoholism to deal with too!
He loves the attention.
Baywatch intervention.
He's not going to be helped until he admits he has a problem.
And this is coming from someone that just got their 2nd DUI right? Pot, meet kettle.
i'm 19 years old and i'm an alcoholic, not by choice, but by habits that put me in that category. I've been sober for 4 months and I'm going strong! Hope the hoff doesn't get hassled by this disease. Common man you can do it!
may be BritBrits dad should get his hands on him
he is an alcoholic - it's that simple - he need treatment - and a drink!
Alcoholism is a disease - chronic just like diabetes and heart disease - that alters the brain and can be managed by not drinking. For those who believe it's not a disease, I couldn't disagree with you more. But you are entitled to your opinion, which goes against common medical and scientific beliefs. There is no cure, and alcoholism, if untreated, will kill a person.
Anyway, hopefully The Hoff gets help…because his fans, family and friends can't do it for him. I understand their plea for help, but he has to want to help. Time for them to leave him…and hope that he pulls himself together.
It seems kind of hypocritical for someone with two DUIs in less than 4 months to call him an alcoholic when she also is one and belongs in rehab, she just hasn't reached the point where she has seizures as the say "yet".
Get yourselves into Alanon, people…Learn what alcoholism is and how to deal with yourself, not with him.
Shes got her nerve to talk.. She has had two dui's in the past year. She is a raging booze hound as well. Sad but true.
Re: didntneedtoseethat –
I completely agree. Unless David finds himself completely alone and without anyone to "help" (i.e., enable) him, then he's never going to get to the point where he'll WANT to get help.
This from the women (and I believe Ex wife) who got arrested for a DUI while he was in the hospital because she got he vino on while comforting her kids. The message would have had more impact coming from his children if old enough.
I am kind of conflicted on this whole public process but he kind of seems like a guy who lives for the spotlight.
Re: StephS41 – Thanks, Steph - the recipe for an intervention. I saw only a few days ago, the Hoff walking with his daughter proclaiming (with her there, and I'm paraphrasing) "nothing wrong here!" Uh, even if you're sober, Hoff, how long's it been? Hoff, you need to be more humble about your (4-day or whatever) sobriety. For me, it'll be 5 years on Dec. 23. I'm VERY humble about my powerlessness 'over' alcohol.
Re: @v@ – Another great one-liner. Heck, they could have a series outta HIGH-lighting every character! Nearly every damn one needs it!
First of all the family should reach out for prfessional help when dealing with him because something they need to learn is you can't make someone get sober, they have to want it for themselves. They family needs to set up boundaries for example, do not allow him to see the daughter unless he completes treatment. They need to create a bottom for him and stick to the boundaries they set up. Then the ex-wive and daughters of his need to go get help too by going to meetings for children of alcoholic parents. Bottom line: they need to get professional help from someone who deals with addictions and can give them advice on what needs to be done to move David fowards in getting help.