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Gordon Buchanan, 54, allowed Glitter to stay at his home in Hampshire after he arrived back in the UK on August 22. The disgraced musician had been released from a prison in Vietnam days earlier after serving a sentence for abusing two girls.
Glitter decided to leave his friend's home when his hiding place was discovered four days later. Buchanan has not seen him since and is haunted by fears that he will commit suicide.
"I'm not sure he's going to live through this. I saw a very distressed person," Buchanan told The Mirror. "A little bit more of a push and I see what people really want, Gary will be in a box. He is not a well person and his hearing is rapidly deteriorating - he's terrified he won't be able to sing any more. I was his last sanctuary, he truly has nothing.
"He really needs to go into hospital and only then will the truth be worked out and the paedophile subject matter addressed."
Buchanan also suggested that the 64-year-old singer, whose real name is Paul Gadd, needs help to deal with his split personality.
"His good side is Gary Glitter, the rocker that everyone knows and millions used to love. The sick side is Paul Gadd," he said. "I've never met Paul his alter ego, I've always called him Gary. Gary's grappling with the darker side of Paul Gadd. Deep down he is a sick child."
