Owen Wilson.
"That laid-back Texas drawl. The zany, off-kilter sensibility. An uncanny ability to improvise.
It was seemingly impossible to square actor Owen Wilson's public persona as a happy go-lucky bon vivant with news that he was hospitalized over the weekend after widespread but unconfirmed reports that he tried to commit suicide.
Wilson, 38, considered one of Hollywood's top comedy stars, with such hit films as "Wedding Crashers," Shanghai Noon" and "Cars," was receiving medical treatment Monday at Cedars- Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. The hospital declined to comment.
Wilson's publicist, Ina Treciokas of I/D Public Relations, issued this statement from the actor: "I respectfully ask that the media allow me to receive care and heal in private during this difficult time."
Neither public authorities nor Wilson's publicist would confirm or deny reports by the National Enquirer and its sister publication, Star magazine, that the actor tried to commit suicide by slashing his wrist and swallowing a number of pills."
