Johnny Manziel appears closer and closer to hitting rock bottom and by now he is so out of control that his own father is fearing the worst. Paul Manziel told the Dallas Morning News that if his son doesn’t get help, he fears he will die before he turns 24.

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On the same day Manziel’s agent decided it was no longer worth representing him and walking away from him, his own father had even more concerning things to say.

Paul Manziel said he has tried to get his son into rehab twice within the past week but he refuses.

“I truly believe if they can’t get him help, he won’t live to see his 24th birthday,” Paul Manziel told The Dallas Morning News.

The family first tried Saturday afternoon to get Manziel, 23, to agree to go to the Enterhealth Ranch addiction facility in Van Alstyne, but he would not stay. That attempt came the day after Manziel’s former girlfriend alleged in a police report that he hit her repeatedly at a Dallas hotel and while driving her home to Fort Worth on Jan. 29. Manziel has not been charged in the incident, but a Fort Worth Police helicopter searched the area for him.

Paul Manziel said that he tried to have his son admitted Tuesday to Carrollton Springs Hospital, but that Johnny was allowed to leave. Paul Manziel said that he is upset that his son was allowed to walk away after Paul told a Denton County Sheriff officer that he believed Johnny to be suicidal. Carrollton Springs is a 45-bed psychiatric and chemical dependency hospital in Carrollton, providing inpatient and outpatient treatment to adults suffering from mental illness and/or addiction, according to its website.

Football suddenly doesn’t seem like it matters. Let’s hope Johnny can work things out within himself and listen to people who are trying to help him.

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