Friends and family of Owen Wilson have been rallying around the actor after he attempted to commit suicide on August 26 by slicing his wrist and ingesting pills. They have also been trying to determine where it all went wrong.

“Owen started hanging out around the wrong people again,” says a source.

To wit: At least two sources blame British actor Steve Coogan. The party boy rehab veteran was Owen’s costar in Night at the Museum and Around the World in 80 Days.

“I went through it with Steve,” rocker Courtney Love, who dated Coogan, 41, until an acrimonious split in 2006, tells Us.

“I was just out of rehab, and he was right there with the drugs,” she says. “I tried to warn Owen. I tried to warn his friends … I hope from the bottom of my heart that Owen stays the hell away from that guy.”

Indeed, former girlfriend Kate Hudson, 28, “forbid him from letting Coogan into his house. She knew he was bad,” says another source. (Reps for Coogan did not respond to requests for comment.)

“The drugs and partying were a huge factor in the breakup,” says a pal of Hudson, who has a 3-year-old son, Ryder, with ex-husband Chris Robinson. “As much as she liked him, she didn’t want to be around that” - especially given the fact that Robinson is a recovering drug addict.

Wilson’s loved ones worried so much about his dependence on hard drugs, Us has learned, that friend Woody Harrelson staged an informal intervention at his Hawaii home in May.

But Owen, 38, continued to withdraw and succumb to depression following his June split from Hudson, who is now dating Punk’d star Dax Shepard - which might have pushed Wilson over the edge.

“Seeing her happy with someone else made him happy that she’d found that,” says one longtime Wilson family friend, “but made him hate himself so much more that he could never do it.””

For more details on Owen’s downward spiral into depression, his recovery, and where he’ll go from here, pick up the new issue of Us Weekly, on newsstands this week.

Source: US Magazine

Courtney Love infuriated Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld when she wore an exact knockoff of one of his couture designs to Paris Hilton’s birthday party last February. But after Love sent a letter of apology, the designer forgave the rocker and even agreed to photograph her for the new issue of Harper’s Bazaar wearing little more than a strategically placed necklace. The September issue doesn’t hit newsstands until August 21, but get a sneak peek of the interview below as Love discusses getting sober, her controversial weight loss and Hollywood’s “bulimic liars.”

On her upcoming solo album Nobody’s Daughter:
“It’s the first time I’ve written sober…the first time I’ve written from a really deep, dark place.”

On her apology for wearing faux Chanel:
“I wrote Mr. Lagerfeld a letter, an in-depth apology…I offered to pay for the dress, throw him a party, do whatever I needed to do to make up for this horrific thing.”

And she continues:
“In a way, it’s insanely subversive, because I don’t think anyone has done fake couture before. But honest to God, I did not know. I hope it was burned.”

On Karl Lagerfeld:
“I really connected with Karl in a way that I didn’t think I was going to…from the ponytail to the image and the persona, I didn’t think we were going to click, but I ended up genuinely and sincerely liking the man.”

On the fashion world’s feelings toward her:
“The fashion world, they don’t trust me anymore…and why should they? I looked like crap for years…I didn’t know what a season was. Someone had to explain it to me.”

On her weight loss:
“I’ve lost a lot of weight, and I have done it through being quite disciplined… Some people think it’s about weight loss, but it’s about detoxing.”

On some actresses’ dieting habits:
“I hate reading magazines where the actresses are saying ‘Broccoli and fish, broccoli and fish.’ You liars. You bulimic liars.”

On her look in 1994 when she was interviewed by Barbara Walters:

“I pulled my hair up into what I thought was a chignon, and I just had eyeliner on, basically. Did you ever see Matt Lauer and Britney Spears? Well, I was more Grand Guignol than that. More horror show.”

On her troubled past:
“I cracked. And I cracked in public, and so I lost all of my credibility. For many years, I took pills. I felt like I had this dirty secret. Other people can have glasses of wine and things like that because they’re normal people who can do things like that. But if you’re allergic to that stuff, you just are, and you can’t.”

Source: US Magazine

Recently photographed looking shockingly gaunt, Courtney Love actually insists her weight is going up, not down.

In her usual stream-of-consciousness style – which includes relaxed rules for grammar and spelling – the 43-year-old rocker writes this week on her MySpace page (accessible only to her MySpace friends): “ive put on 10 pounds (thank you Sprinkles cupcakes wic h i must admit are overrated).”

Love’s blog also conveys her message that she thinks it’s unfair to single her out for criticism about her weight, USA Today reports.

“I must point out the hypocrisy of this crazy hysteria about my weight…Noones going to mistake me for Eva Longoria, andmy god I am truly hAppy to be who an what i am with my life an dmy expirience i can do so many things help so many people and make such a beautiful clothing line too! and maybe finish this dammed sript one day,” writes Love, who in April claimed to have shed 52 lbs. thanks to a diet of Isopure shakes, fish and vegetables.

Last month, Love’s concert in New York City prompted concerns about her incredibly shrinking frame – and even she made a wisecrack about her appearance. Between songs, she took a swig from a protein shake, then apologized to the crowd, saying that she “had to take care of my eating disorder.”

She then said she was joking and declared, “I don’t have an eating disorder.”

Source: People