According to one of his musicians he was hooked on drugs at that time and was admitted either to a hospital or a rehab center. not sure where.

anything's possible, I guess.
But I'm sure we would've heard something about this before Hahn's book.

I read an interview with what was suppose to be his son's nanny about how she and Mayte found him passed out with like two empty wine bottles and some pills in the studio (I think) about a couple of days after his child's death (Boy Gregory). They took him to the hospital it said and he would have died except he had thrown up and some of the tablets came up...I'm not sure about the whole story..I think someone posted it on here..But try and look it up...It was really a sad story though.

But like i said, I'm not really sure but it did say that he went to the hospital..

no one really knows what he really does, I always thought he did not smoke, but I seen him smoking something at an afterparty in Cincinnati, 2000.

Perhaps I'm naive but I thought he had been quoted in "In Style" mag a couple of years back saying he had never touched drugs or alcohol in his entire life, prescription or otherwise???

Prince may have been admitted to a hospital in 1996,but I think it was just exhaustion.Remember,this was a stressful period for him.He was battling Warners and it clearly took it's toll on him.

lovebizzare said:

We did.

I don't know if anybody is disputing him being admitted to a hospital at some point, it's not uncommon for people who have public careers to be in a hospital, everybody is mortal ya know. The dispute is that IF he was, the reason why. He may be able to keep some people from spilling everything, but I sincerely doubt an entire hospital full of people waiting to anonymously run their mouths for the highest magazine bidder could have been kept from doing so. Get real. Doctors of course are sworn to doctor/patient confidentiality agreements. But it's not just the doctors or nurses who deal patients in hospitals, or who work in hospitals. Actually, I think people (like Hahn) are trying to make more out of this than there is.
[This message was edited Mon Nov 3 9:45:48 PST 2003 by Supernova]

But according 2 the book, this happened in April of 1996, 2 months after Mayte had gotten pregnant. He was having sharp chest pains, so he drank wine 2 dull the pain, and he supposedly was taking asprins 4 the hell of it, cause he heard they were good 4 the heart against heart disease and other problems. He had consumed a full bottle of wine, and with him being so petite and having a high metabolism (and by then he had become a full fledged vegetarian), he quickly became intoxicated and began vomiting. So it was the combination of the wine AND the chest pains that sent him 2 the hospital. Not any suicide attempt or anything of that nature...