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Gerard Butler Details His Heavy Boozing Past ‘I Didn’t Care If I Died’


Posted on Feb 13, 2012 @ 05:00PM - 1 comment

By Radar Staff

Gerard Butler has certainly come a long way since hitting bottom and giving up booze!

The Scottish actor, whose blackout drinking destroyed his career ambitions to become a lawyer in his twenties, explains why he quit drinking and how he got his life back together just in time to become an internationally known actor in an extensive new interview.

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“I had gone from a 16-year-old who couldn’t wait to grasp life to a 22-year-old who didn’t care if he died in his sleep,” the actor revealed to Chris Sullivan of The Red Bulletin about his heavy drinking.

Butler, who was working as a trainee at an Edinburgh law firm during the time, explains that his drinking got him fired from the job.

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No Booze For Boardwalk Empire's Paz de la Huerta, Per Her Staff


Posted on Nov 15, 2011 @ 05:00AM - 5 comments

By Radar Staff

Paz de la Huerta was sober as a judge hosting the opening of New York’s Hotel on Rivington bar Viktor & Spoils last week, and RadarOnline.com has learned it’s because her camp wouldn’t let her drink!

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SNL Star Darrell Hammond Confesses To Booze, Crack And Cutting


Posted on Oct 24, 2011 @ 07:30PM - 4 comments

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Best known for his uncanny impersonations of Bill ClintonAl Gore and Dick Cheney, Saturday Night Live star Darrell Hammond has revealed the dark truth behind his comedy persona, RadarOnline.com has learned.

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Baby Lisa's Mother: I Was Drunk The Night My Daughter Disappeared


Posted on Oct 17, 2011 @ 07:00AM - 25 comments

By Radar Staff

Deborah Bradley, the mother of missing 10-month-old Lisa Irwin, admitted she'd drank "enough [alcohol] to be drunk’’ on the night of October 4 when her 10-month-old vanished -- and expects to be arrested because of it.

Bradley, a Kansas City, Missouri native, told The Today Show Monday she expects to be taken into custody because she "was the last one with [the baby,] and judging on how the questioning went, that’s kind of the fear that I have.

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