HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- Actress Shelley Long was hospitalized for a week in Los Angeles after taking an overdose of painkillers, the New York Post reported Friday.
Friends of Long speculate the 55-year-old "Cheers" star, depressed over the breakup of her marriage last year, took the pills in an apparent suicide attempt. Long, who played waitress Diane Chambers in the hit sitcom, was admitted to UCLA Medical Center Nov. 16 and released Tuesday, her mother said.
She fell into depression after her husband of 22 years, securities broker Bruce Tyson, left her. The couple is in the process of a divorce and Long is now living alone after moving out of their Hollywood mansion when it was sold.
Long, who won an Emmy and two Golden Globes for her work in "Cheers," left the show in 1987, six years before its last episode. She starred in several movies since then but never reached the level of success she enjoyed in her "Cheers" role.
