Jonathan Rhys Meyers Arrested for Being Stupid

Allie @ Gone Hollywood | Monday, November 19, 2007

Irish actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers, star of the Henry VIII soap opera “The Tudors,” has been charged with public drunkenness and breach of the peace at Dublin, Ireland Airport.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers Arrested for Being Stupid - PIC

Rhys Meyers, 30, was arrested Sunday after police twice confronted him over his erratic, abusive behavior at an airport gate and at a desk of the British airline BMI, on which he was planning to fly to London.

Dublin Airport Police said they called Ireland’s national police force, the Garda Siochana, after Rhys Meyers refused repeated requests to calm down.

Police charged him with two counts of violating the Public Order Act, then permitted him to pay an undisclosed cash bail on condition he return to Dublin District Court on Dec. 5 for his arraignment.

Rhys Meyers - who was admitted to a California alcoholism-treatment clinic in April and checked out the following month - was in Dublin to appear on “Tubridy Tonight,” a Saturday night national talk show to promote his new film, “August Rush,” costarring Robin Williams.

Ryan Tubridy said he was surprised and sorry to hear of the actor’s arrest. He said Rhys Meyers had chatted with everybody who wanted to meet him back stage, and was drinking nothing more threatening than “a big mug of milky tea.”

“Obviously that was not on the agenda at some time on Saturday night or Sunday morning,” Tubridy said.

Rhys Meyers starred opposite Scarlett Johansson in Woody Allen’s “Match Point” and Reese Witherspoon in “Vanity Fair,” among other films. He also portrayed Elvis Presley in a 2005 U.S. television miniseries, and is now filming the second season of “The Tudors” for the U.S. cable network Showtime.

In an interview last year on the set of “The Tudors,” Rhys Meyers said he felt restricted socializing in Ireland because of its hard-drinking pub culture.

Jonathan was pictured with that crazy ‘drugged‘ look on his face just a week ago yesterday (November 11th). You see these things coming.

What others said:

Daily Blabber says, “Jon did a stint in rehab earlier this year saying that he felt a break was needed to maintain his recovery. Looks like he might need another break.”

Pop On The Pop says, “In most of the pictures I see of him he looks more like a crackhead, than a drunk. It’s all in those freakish eyes!”

source: Jonathan Rhys Meyers Arrested in Dublin Airport [people]

Jonathan Rhys Meyers Arrested for Being Stupid

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