The DJ checked into a clinic in southern England on Monday (March 2), reports The Sun, and according to his manager, Garry Blackburn, has been battling a drink problem "for some time."
Blackburn added that the star, otherwise known as Norman Cook, had gone into the center voluntarily.
The newspaper quotes an anonymous source as saying: "Norman decided that the only way to kick his booze addiction for good was to check himself into a clinic."
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Fatboy Slim And U.K. TV Host Wife Separate
Jan 23, 2003 7:00 am PST
(1/23/03, 10 a.m. ET) -- Fatboy Slim and his wife of three-and-half years, Zoe Ball, have separated. The 39-year-old DJ-musician--whose real name is Norman Cook--married 32-year-old U.K. television and radio presenter Ball in August 1999. ...
Fatboy Slim Concert Death Linked To Ecstasy
Sep 19, 2002 3:00 pm PDT
(9/19/02, 6 p.m. ET) -- Ecstasy and alcohol were in the system of a 26-year-old woman when she fell to death at a Fatboy Slim concert in Brighton, England in July, a pathologist told U.K. authorities. Karen Manders, an Australian nurse, fe...
Fatboy Slim's British Beach Party Erupts Into Chaos, One Confirmed Dead
Jul 16, 2002 1:00 pm PDT
(7/16/02, 4 p.m. ET) -- Fatboy Slim's second annual Big Beach Boutique in Brighton, England on Saturday (July 13) drew a quarter of a million people, overwhelming event organizers and erupting into chaos with at least one confirmed death...
Fatboy Slim Spinning For World Cup
Jun 3, 2002 2:00 pm PDT
(5/3/02, 5 p.m. ET) -- Fatboy Slim kicked off a series of DJ appearances surrounding the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Tokyo on Saturday (June 1). Slim, whose real name is Norman Cook, appears as the headliner of the "Kick And Spin" tour, sch...
Sep 8, 2001 7:00 am PDT
(9/8/01, 10 a.m. ET) -- Fatboy Slim's "Weapon Of Choice" took home six Video Music Awards on Thursday night (September 6). Director Spike Jonze was asked about the star of the video, Christopher Walken, a film star not known for his d...