Tudors Star Rhys Meyers Heads Back to Rehab-Again
May 21st, 2010 - 10:14 pm ICT by Angela Kaye Mason
May 21 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Johnathan Rhys Meyers is on his way back to rehab, to be treated for alcohol addiction. According to ‘People’ Magazine, a source who is close to the 32 year old actor states, “He just really wants to get better. This has been an ongoing battle for him.”
The Dublin Ireland native was said to have been ‘pounding drinks into himself’ at the private bar in the JFK airport in New York City. As he tried to board a United Airlines flight, which was headed to Los Angeles, he was “belligerent and disruptive,” and managed to not only get himself kicked off the flight, but was banned from ever flying with United Airlines again. It was said that Jonathan Rhys Meyers was screaming very loudly at the flight attendants, “Do you know who I am?” This is not the first time that the actor has caused a scene at an airport, nor is it the first time which he has went into rehab for this alcohol problem.
Rys Meyers was arrested in 2007 at an airport in Dublin, Ireland for public drunkenness. He didn’t seem to slow down at all, however, and in 2009 was detained for three hours by police in Paris at the Charles De Gaulle airport after he allegedly assaulted an employee of Le Quotidien, which is the airport’s lounge. The bartender there had refused to serve him because he appeared to already be quite intoxicated. Rys Meyers then got into a shouting match, and the bar manager, with the help of another employee tried to break the argument up. The actor actually hit the bartender and the waiter who tried to help calm the situation.
Hopes are that a new round of rehab will help turn Rys Meyers into a new man, and fans might get to see a better side if the actor. His talent is considered to be great, however, the actions caused by his drinking make being around the actor difficult at best. If he continues on the path he has so far chosen for himself, many fear it will end exactly where Lindsey Lohan’s has, with a career in the toilet, along with his head.
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