Revealed, Gazza snorted 14 lines of coke before his Raoul Moat moment: Read his shocking line-by-line confession
PAUL GASCOIGNE has revealed he snorted 14 lines of cocaine before his infamous Raoul Moat moment — in an astonishing interview.
The troubled former England ace, 48, told fans he was as high as a kite when he leapt into a taxi in a bid to go and bring the police siege in Rothbury in 2010 to a peaceful end.
Armed with a cooked chicken and fishing rod he was convinced he could save steroid-crazed former bouncer Moat, who had blasted his ex-girlfriend and killed her new bloke before blinding traffic cop David Rathband.
Gazza said: “You’ve got to realise I’m half cut anyway, sitting in the living room, I’ve got about six lines lined up.
“I’m not realising much but a good line and me and Raoul Moat are sort of friends. A couple more lines and we are good buddies.
“A few whiskies, another few lines, I’ve had about eight lines and we went to school together.
“He was in Rothbury, that’s where I used to go fishing so I know the area quite well.
“I’m on my 11th line so if he’s in the woods he’s going to be cold, I’ll get my Barbour out.
“Another line and I have a couple of fishing rods and a chicken. He’s going to need a drink. I’ve had 14 lines now and he’s my brother.
“I’ve got my fishing rods, I’ve got Barbour jacket, I’ve got my four cans,
I’ve got my chicken. My chicken is important because he must be starving.”
Gazza said how he booked a taxi and leapt in with his face covered in white powder as he told the astonished cabbie: ‘Just drive. Ten o’clock, taxi for Gascoigne.’
He added: “I’ve got a chicken on my back, powder all over my face.
“He says ‘Gazza where are you going?’ I said fishing, where do you think? He said ‘OK then, where?’ I said just drive.
“I’m excited now right, we are going fishing. Oh, I’ve forgot the tent, but never mind.
“We drove past Newcastle, the airport and everything and see signs for Rothbury.
“He went ‘Oh f*** me Gazza are you going where I think you're going?’ “I went yeah! You should have seen him, he was shaking.
“I said just drop me off and wait for me, I won’t be long, I can help him. I’ve been to rehab so many times I’m a connoisseur.”
Gazza said as soon as he got out of the cab a cop approached him and told him he couldn’t go any further because of a huge police cordon which had been thrown around the Northumberland market town.
He said: “This copper comes over. He said, 'Where are you going, Gazza?' I said, 'I can help him, I’ve been to therapy.'
“He said just go home. I was devastated because my chicken was getting cold.
So anyway I make it back home, I fall asleep with a bottle of whisky.
“You know in the morning when you panic the first thing you do is look at your mobile.
“I’ve got 250 missed calls, I was like — what have I done? I’ve got a chicken by my side, fishing rods, a Barbour, I’m like f*** me I must have done something.
“I turn on Sky News — Paul Gascoigne was there last night.”
The incident remains one of the most notorious in all the years that Gazza has spent battling alcohol and drug addictions and mental health problems.
Even now people still poke fun at him for it on Twitter.
The soccer ace had his audience — who had paid £30-a-head for the evening at
Newcastle’s Tyne Theatre on Sunday — in fits of laughter as he regaled them with the story.
He looked slim and well as he recounted other hilarious tales from his time playing for a string of top clubs, including when he had to buy a new car for Rangers striker Gordon Durie.
He said: “I hid two trout inside his car during a training session.
“Two weeks later he went: ‘I’m not being funny but it’s lifting, please say you haven’t put another fish in it.’ He had to scrap the car, I had to buy him a new car.
“Most expensive trouts I’ve ever bought, apart from the one I was married to.”
Gazza has told in the past how he faces a life-long battle with the bottle and said: “I know he’s Jack Daniels but if you’ve known him as long as I have he’s John Daniels.
“I’ve been in Bournemouth six years, two rehabs, sectioned four times, banged up once, lost my licence.”
Raoul Moat, 37, went on the rampage in July 2010 after girlfriend Samantha
Stobbart, then 22, dumped him while he was in prison.
He took revenge when he was released by shooting her with a shotgun and killing her new bloke Chris Brown, 29.
A day later he shot and blinded PC Rathband and went on the run before killing himself in Rothbury.