Baywatch star David Hasselhoff phoned 911 Sunday night and reported that his daughter "cut herself" and may have led the operator to believe that it was a suicide attempt. Now his estranged wife Pamela Bach is setting the record straight, telling TMZ gossip site that her daughter was scratched by a pet, never tried to kill herself, and that the Hoff is an idiot besides.
Bach says her 14-year-old daughter Hayley was scratched by the family cat (name withheld). She says her daughter was crying uncontrollably, so she called David and suggested that it might be appropriate for the girl to see a shrink on Monday.
At that point Bach claims David began ranting that he would call the police and "bring her down".
Hasselhoff denies he even spoke with Bach Sunday night, and says the allegations of threats are false.
Bach says at around 8 p.m. the police and paramedics arrived and said that David had called in a suicide attempt, so by law they had to take the girl to the hospital. "The kid panicked," a source close to the star told The ShowBuzz. "They took her to the hospital and they released her in literally five minutes."
Hasselhoff's publicist Judy Katz tells TMZ that the Hoff became alarmed when his older daughter called to say her sister was bleeding. Hasselhoff denies telling 911 about a suicide attempt, but his publicist says the 911 operator may have interpreted it that way. Hasselhoff, who was getting ready to board a plane for a film festival, left town without visiting his daughter.
