George Best's alcoholism and depression laid bare by former Playboy wife Angie
, has revealed how Best struggled with chronic depression alongside his well known battle with alcoholism."All he did was end up having an affair with one of the clinicians!"
Angie says that Best struggled to deal with the pressure of being football’s first true celebrity without the kind of support high profile players get now.Credit: Hulton Archive "But he’d hide the pills between the gap in his front teeth. Weeks later, I’d find them in his jeans’ pockets. After just three years of marriage the couple separated, divorcing five years later, with Best even going on a two-week bender and failing to come home when Calum was just three weeks old.
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