If Disneyland is the happiest place on Earth, the airport bar might well be the unhappiest. The drinks are watered-down and overpriced, the food is bland, and the customers and staff seem to be in a constant competition for the coveted honor of “Who Can Be More Surly.”
And this year’s award goes to… (fumbles with the envelope)… Jonathan Rhys Meyers!
Rhys Meyers, the 31-year-old star of The Tudors, was arrested yesterday at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris after he assaulted a waiter in an airport bar. Rhys Meyers allegedly shoved the waiter and punched him in the face after the waiter refused to serve him more alcohol. Witnesses say Rhys Meyers could be heard shouting “I’ll kill you all!” to the other members of the staff.
The Irish-born actor was charged in a French court with “willful violence, outrage, hitting, and threatening death.” He has several prior episodes of drunken bad behavior, including public drunkenness and breach of the peace at an airport in Dublin. Rhys Meyers, who claims he didn’t start drinking until he was 25 and has only been drunk “a dozen-and-a-half times,” says that when he drinks, he’s “like Bambi.” “I’m all over the place, hopeless, like a 16-year-old kid,” he says. “People notice.”
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