Paul Hogan Battles Failing Health, Isolation and Heartache Over Son’s Shocking Plea

Crocodile Dundee star Paul Hogan’s golden years have been tarnished by health woes, concern for his troubled son, and loneliness as he shuffles ever closer to his final curtain call, say sources.

The onetime Aussie heartthrob, now 85, was recently spotted looking haggard and beaten down on his way to a doctor’s office in Santa Monica, Calif., on April 18.

“I don’t feel good, that’s why I’m here at the doctor’s,” Hogan told a passerby, adding, “I’m getting old.”

The actor who shot to global fame in 1986 playing a lovable bushman from the Australian Outback pretty much flamed out after that as his career sputtered and his marriage to his much younger costar Linda Kozlowski crumbled.

As GLOBE readers know, Hogan has been living in Venice, Calif., with his 27-year-old son Chance since Kozlowski, 67, left him and went on to marry Moroccan businessman Moulay Hafid Babaa.

“Paul doesn’t take good enough care of himself and at his age his immune system isn’t what it used to be,” says an insider. “So, it’s no surprise he looks worn out.”

“He’s no doubt gotten thicker in the head, but he’s still feisty and in a bit of denial about being an old, increasingly frail man.”

Sources say Chance has given his now elderly dad a mountain of grief.

Last year, Chance was spotted looking disheveled while loitering in an alley near his father’s lavish beach home. Around that time, he shared a video of himself showing off his inflamed gums and yellowed teeth, and ominously declaring something was about to “begin.”

More recently, Chance posted a video of himself chugging wine and begging someone to kill him.

“This is my life. This is what it’s been reduced to,” he slurs before looking directly in the camera and saying, “Please. Please kill me. I’m begging you.”

Hogan — who has five Australian children from his first marriage — now seems dead-ended by his American kid.

“Chance is not exactly son of the year, and it’s Paul who’s looking out for him rather than the other way around,” notes the insider. “Beyond that, he doesn’t have many friends and is lonely.”

“The feeling is he’d be better off in Australia where he’s got people who would take care of him, but he’s hell-bent on staying in L.A. because that’s where Chance wants to be.”

“It’s a really sad situation.”