NEW YORK, March 5 (UPI) -- A close adviser to former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer says in a new book the ex-official's friends put him on a suicide watch following his resignation.
Lloyd Constantine, staff adviser to Spitzer during his governorship, said in "A Journal of the Plague Year," his account of the administration's final days and aftermath, that friends worried Spitzer may be suicidal following his resignation from office, the New York Daily News reported Friday.
"I thought the moment Eliot ceased being governor would be a dangerous time for him to be alone," Constantine wrote in the 287-page book.
Constantine wrote Spitzer called him in tears March 9, 2008, three days before his resignation, to explain he was about to be revealed as a patron of high-priced prostitute Ashley Dupre.
"I can't continue as governor and must resign," Constantine quoted Spitzer as saying.
