Is
it suicide or allergies?
Orin Pogue, posted Oct. 17, 2006
On Sept.
29, authorities were called to the home of Dallas football
star Terrell Owens after he had allegedly attempted suicide
by overdosing on pain medication. Owens was later treated
at the Baylor University Medical Center for drug overdose.
The next day, however, Owens and his people told a very different
story that included an allergic reaction instead of attempted
suicide.
During
press conferences the next day, Owens seemed jovial and treated
the whole ordeal as if it were a big misunderstanding.
“It
was just an allergic reaction,” Owens said at a press
conference the next morning. “It is very unfortunate
for the reports to go from an allergic reaction to a definite
attempted suicide.”
Many
Mizzou students were not so easy to let Owens off the hook.
After all, this wasn’t his first trip in the negative
spotlight. In fact, Owens has been known for over exaggerating
and for his cocky attitude.
“I
think if he did it, he did it for attention,” MU student
Sean Burrell said. “He knows he life is too sweet for
him to actually want to die.”
Other
students agree, believing that Owens is simply starving for
attention and will do anything to get it.
“Terrell
Owens is a selfish, self-centered person,” MU student
Jesse Burkett said. “He will do anything, good or bad,
to be in the spotlight.”
Whether
Owens is truthful and it was an allergic reaction, or the
police, the hospital and his publicist who found him were
right and it was an attempted suicide, it seems that Owens
just attracts negative news. Hopefully, in the future, Owens
will consider his actions more wisely, or his bad reputation
will continue.
