cousins in five day cocaine binge

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Fallen West Coast Eagles star Ben Cousins was rushed to hospital in Los Angeles last week after a five-day cocaine binge, the Nine Network reported this evening.

Channel Nine reported that an emergency call to the Hermosa Beach Police Department last week described a 29 year-old man "on cocaine not acting right".

Later, the caller, Susie Ela, who Cousins was stying with, added "the man has been on cocaine for the past five days".

Nine said Cousins had been staying at a woman's apartment in the Los Angeles suburb of Hermosa Beach.

He arrived on Saturday, October 27 and the call was made on the following Wednesday at 5.13am local time.

The woman told the operator a 29-year-old male on cocaine "was not acting right but was breathing and conscious", according to the official ambulance call sheet.

She also said the man had been on cocaine for the past five days, according to Nine.

"He's not being violent. He's just scared," she said.

An ambulance and two officers arrived and the man was taken to the Little Company of Mary Hospital, according to Nine.

The hospital has confirmed Cousins was a patient, the network reported.

It was during his son's stay in hospital that Bryan Cousins told reporters Ben wasn't missing, as reports had claimed, but was "receiving treatment at an appropriate facility".

It is believed Cousins' father Bryan then flew to Los Angeles to bring his son back to Australia.

The pair flew out on Sunday night, arriving in Sydney on Tuesday morning. From there, Cousins is believed to have been taken to Canberra to stay with family friends.