August Rush, meet November Lush
Jonathan Rhys Meyers was arrested Sunday afternoon at the Dublin, Ireland, airport, facing charges of public drunkenness and breach of the peace as he tried to get on a plane to England. The purty actor, who was admitted to a California alcoholism-treatment clinic in April (checking out a month later), was in Dublin to promote his new film August Rush. 
Twice police confronted the 30-year-old Irish thespian over his “erratic, abusiveâ€? behavior at an airport gate and at a desk of the British airline. After not shutting his puss and refusing to calm the freak down, the airport police then called Ireland’s national police force, the Garda Siochana.
Police charged Rhys Meyers 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.
“I gave up drinking a few years ago, and this is the first time I’ve spent time in my country trying not to drink,� Rhys Meyers said in an October 2006 interview. “I would never drink again. It is hard to avoid. But listen, you do what you want to do. I don’t want to do that. I want my career, and you can’t really do that and be successful on the screen.�
Well maybe not on the screen, but saying one thing and doing the other will make you pretty darn successful on blogs like this one. We’ll always be there for you to call you out on your own bullshit and laugh when it happens again in a month or so.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers, August Rush, Dublin, Ireland
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