'Depressed' Hatton goes into rehab

Former world champion boxer Ricky Hatton went into rehab yesterday, said his publicist Max Clifford.

Following weekend newspaper claims that Hatton used “industrial quantities” of cocaine on a night out in his home city of Manchester, Mr Clifford said Hatton’s state of mind – depression and drinking – had been a cause of concern for some time, and drug use was only a manifestation of a much bigger problem.

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