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Owen Wilson Attended Church Before Suicide Attempt
Wednesday August 29, 2007

Saint Monica's church in Santa Monica, CA.
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While Kate Hudson was reveling in her new romance with Dax Shepard (the two were photographed making out in an L.A. grocery store over the weekend), her ex Owen Wilson was hitting rock bottom.

A depressed Wilson visited St. Monica church in his neighborhood on August 23, out of either devotion or desperation. Three days later, actor Luke Wilson, 35, found his brother in his Santa Monica, California, home with his left wrist slashed, having ingested a quantity of pills.

Owen, 38, who was immediately rushed to the hospital, is now recovering on the eighth floor of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where one staffer was overheard saying to another, "Owen Wilson cut his wrists with a knife."

While the news stunned Owen's fans, members of his and Hudson's inner circles were reportedly all too aware of his private struggles with depression and addiction to cocaine and heroin. (A rep for Owen adamantly denies the actor has ever used heroin or cocaine.)

According to sources close to the actor, his downward spiral only worsened after his June split from Hudson, 28.

"We always thought he was just too fun-loving, but now it's obvious he was just dealing with way too much to handle," says a family friend.

For more details on Owen's descent into depression and drugs, and his roller coaster relationship with ex Kate Hudson, check out the new issue of Us Weekly, on newsstands this week.

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