Owen Wilson is sparking some new concerns over his lifestyle after one source said that he went shopping at a marijuana bong shop earlier this week.

“Owen spent 20 minutes in the Green House Smoke Shop browsing the pipes and bongs. He bought one of the biggest bongs and spent almost $300 on it” an insider claimed.

When the actor realized he’d been spotted, the witness claimed he tried to hide, saying, “He was worried that someone might have seen him coming out…He hid behind a FedEx truck for 30 seconds before darting to his car!”

The mystery woman seen around New York with Owen Wilson has now been identified: She is model Le Call.

“She is dating him,” an insider tells PEOPLE.

Though there had been speculation – after the two were spotted together on Manhattan’s Lower East Side and in Texas – that Wilson and Jessica Simpson were an item, the New York Post’s Page Six reports that on Saturday Le Call and the Wedding Crashers star attended a private dinner for English artist Damien Hirst and, early in the week, also practiced yoga together in a downtown studio.

When asked about a possible relationship between Wilson and Le Call (who, despite the name, is American born), a rep for One Model Management told PEOPLE, “Le Call has no comment.”

But, a source close to the couple said on Monday, “Le Call is totally overwhelmed by all of this attention. She isn’t used to it. So they will be leaving town tomorrow to escape – and traveling a great distance.”

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Wilson has been in the news quite a bit lately since his suicide attempt. First there was news that him and Kate may be getting back together. That was quickly squashed as rumor was Jessica Simpson and him were hanging out and beginning a romance. Now Owen is in the news because a source close to Owen says that his suicide attempt was because of Kate Hudson and his love for her.

According to FOX PopTarts’ Hollie McKay, “Wilson’s dramatic downturn coincided with the weekend release of photos showing his ex-girlfriend Kate Hudson getting mushy in Malibu with new man Dax Shepard, and according to an insider, the loss of love sent him spinning.”

The FOX source tells, “Kate and Owen definitely had a very special connection and they will always have that connection, but for a number of reasons the relationship just didn’t work out. Hollywood is a hard place, and the pressure of trying to keep things personal got to them.”

According to the source, when Kate and Owen split, it was Owen that devastated.

“Kate was able to move on but Owen just wasn’t; she’s an amazing woman and Owen really thought he was with ‘the one.’ Everybody keeps saying it was all drugs, but it wasn’t. Clearly Owen was fighting for love.”

New couple alert?

I still don’t know what to think about these two getting together? Rebound?

She and Owen Wilson have been spotted on a date in Los Angeles, according to the new issue of Star magazine.

The two dined Sunday at the Huntley Hotel in Santa Monica before retiring to his Malibu home.

“He couldn’t keep his hands off her,” a witness tells the mag.

Apparently, sparks flew between the two Texans when they were in Austin on Oct. 16 to appear in a video with Willie Nelson.

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Owen Wilson made a public appearance Thursday night – briefly showing up at the Los Angeles premiere of his movie, The Darjeeling Limited.

Wilson, 38, sidestepped the red carpet and entered the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences’ Samuel Goldwyn Theatre through a private entrance, surprising the audience by joining costars Jason Schwartzman, Natalie Portman and Anjelica Huston onstage.

Shown a very warm welcome back into the spotlight, Wilson was introduced by director Wes Anderson as “my best friend,” and the audience erupted into applause. Onstage, Wilson looked healthy and confident in a dark suit and white button-down shirt.

It is Wilson’s first major appearance since being hospitalized in August after what police called a suicide attempt.

As the cast left the stage for the film’s presentation, Wilson was embraced by producer/writer Roman Coppola and then Huston, who shared her support by telling PEOPLE what a “cool guy” Wilson is.

“I have to say, I have a crush on Owen.” Huston, 56, said before Wilson (who also costarred with her in Anderson’s 2001 The Royal Tenenbaums) joined her for a few moments in the front row. He then exited the theater.

“Owen is doing very well and he is with us tonight, and I love him,” Wilson’s Darjeeling costar, Schwartzman, told PEOPLE on the red carpet.

Ben Stiller says things are looking up for his longtime pal and frequent costar Owen Wilson.

“He’s doing really well,” Stiller, 41, tells Ellen DeGeneres on her show Friday.

“I sort of like to protect his privacy, ’cause I feel like it’s his own thing,” says Stiller. “But he’s a really good friend of mine. He’s an incredible guy and I wish him as everybody does, all the best.”

Wilson, 38, was set to begin shooting the comedy Tropic Thunder with Stiller this month, but was hospitalized on Aug. 26 for what police called a suicide attempt. He dropped out of the film after issuing a statement requesting that he be allowed to “receive care and heal in private during this difficult time.”

Wilson’s withdrawal from the project – which is about actors on a war movie location where a real battle erupts – was reportedly a mutual decision between him and Stiller, and Matthew McConaughey has stepped in to join the ensemble cast that includes Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr. and Nick Nolte.

Speaking at Thursday night’s Westwood premiere of his and his son’s latest movie, The Heartbreak Kid, Ben’s dad Jerry Stiller, 80, expressed concern for his son’s best friend and said he was “surprised” to hear of Wilson’s apparent suicide attempt – but he was sure that Wilson would “recover.”

“I know that he’ll put his life together,” the elder Stiller, who also costarred with Wilson in 2001’s Zoolander, told PEOPLE. He added that his son has been “very close to Owen for most of their careers,” and that Ben had been an “advocate” in “intervention and all that stuff.”

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Matthew McConaughey has jumped into the ensemble cast of “Tropic Thunder,” the Ben Stiller-directed DreamWorks comedy.

McConaughey takes the role that Owen Wilson lost after he was hospitalized.

McConaughey joins an ensemble cast that includes Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Nick Nolte, Bill Hader and Steve Coogan.

The movie is about a group of actors who gather on a remote island to shoot a big-budget war movie and are forced to become the soldiers they are playing.

McConaughey, who this year finished the Andy Tennant-directed “Fool’s Gold” and the S.R. Bindler-directed “Surfer Dude,” carved out a week in his schedule to shoot the role.

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