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How Iron Man Star Robert Downey Jr Turned His Life Around from Prison and Cocaine | Mail Online 8/30/14 2:41 PM How Iron Man star Robert Downey Jr turned his life around from prison and cocaine | Mail Online 8/30/14 2:41 PM From washed-up drug addict to the $100m man: How Iron Man star Robert Downey Jr turned his life around from prison and cocaine By Paul Scott Published: 19:03 EST, 23 May 2013 | Updated: 03:40 EST, 24 May 2013 Robert Downey Jr is on the verge of pulling off the biggest ever single payday for a star by signing the first $100¿million (£65¿million) contract in movie history Given the high-stakes game of brinkmanship that he is currently engaged in with Hollywood’s moneymen, it is a http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2330012/How-Iron-Man-star-Robert-Downey-Jr-turned-life-prison-cocaine.html Page 1 of 10 How Iron Man star Robert Downey Jr turned his life around from prison and cocaine | Mail Online 8/30/14 2:41 PM good thing that Robert Downey Jr does not really ‘do’ self doubt. So confident is the 48-year-old actor of his own ability that, in an interview with GQ this month, he says he fully deserves the £33!million he got for his last film — and predicts it is only a matter of time before he wins his first Oscar. Downey can afford to be cocky. The new undisputed king of Hollywood is a walking, talking multi-billion-dollar business. As if to illustrate the fact, he is on the verge of pulling off the biggest ever single payday for a star by signing the first $100!million (£65!million) contract in movie history, reprising his role as superhero Iron Man in two more episodes of Disney’s big-screen franchise. And Downey Jr, who has twice starred as Sherlock Holmes, admits he is now considered not so much an actor but a ‘strategic cost’ to the big money corporations who employ him — and rake in billions from his films. It has, of course, brought him a suitably enviable lifestyle, which includes his eccentrically decorated Malibu estate overlooking the Pacific, private planes and his own chef. The extraordinary thing is that, not so long ago, Downey Jr was a poster boy for wasted talent. Broke and in and out of prison because of his self-destructive taste for booze and never-ending quantities of weapons-grade drugs, he was reduced at one point to earning eight cents an hour scrubbing pizza pans in the kitchen of the LA County Jail. For a period in the 1990s and the early part of the next decade, the actor was considered a pariah and a laughing stock, despite (or perhaps because of) the fact that he had consistently hailed himself as the best actor of his generation after the intensity of his performances, not least in his Oscar-nominated role in the biopic Chaplin in 1992. One leading director used to enjoy playing party guests the tape of an emergency 911 call by a female neighbour of the actor who came home in May 1996 to find Downey Jr asleep in her 11-year-old son’s empty bed. Out of his mind on cocaine and drink, he had wandered in, undressed to his underpants, folded his clothes up and settled down to sleep. Comically, the bemused woman’s call to police was accompanied by the sound of the star’s loud snoring. He was already on parole after being arrested for racing his car drunk along Sunset Boulevard while in possession of a stash of drugs and a .357 magnum revolver — mercifully, unloaded. On another occasion, he was arrested, naked and hallucinating, at the wheel of his Porsche. At his lowest ebb, he was found in the foetal position in a rat-infested alley behind a dingy LA hotel. During one of a litany of court appearances on drugs charges, he told a judge: ‘Taking drugs to me is like having a shotgun in my mouth with my finger on the trigger, and I like the taste of the gun metal.’ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2330012/How-Iron-Man-star-Robert-Downey-Jr-turned-life-prison-cocaine.html Page 2 of 10 How Iron Man star Robert Downey Jr turned his life around from prison and cocaine | Mail Online 8/30/14 2:41 PM It would see him reprising his role as superhero Iron Man in two more episodes of Disney's big-screen franchise It was a steep descent for Downey Jr, the handsome one-time leading light of Hollywood’s Brat Pack of actors who had won rave reviews for his roles in films such as Natural Born Killers and Short Cuts. To a large extent, his myriad problems were the legacy of a recklessly liberal upbringing by his parents, underground film-maker Robert Downey and Elsie, his actress mother, in bohemian Greenwich Village, New York. His father cast his son in his first film, the avant-garde comedy Pound, at the age of five. But Downey Sr was a notorious drug addict and one day, as he watched the eight-year-old Robert drinking the white wine he had given him, he offered to let him try a cannabis joint. It was the start of a slippery slope. When his parents, who also have a daughter, Allyson, divorced in the late 1970s, 13-year-old Robert Jr moved to California with his father and enrolled in High School. Within four years, he had dropped out and returned to Manhattan to study acting. A stint on the long-running television comedy show Saturday Night Live made his name and he soon became catnip to a series of Hollywood leading ladies. He had flings with Marisa Tomei and Jennifer Jason Leigh, and began dating his first long-term girlfriend Sarah Jessica Parker (who would go on to find fame in Sex And The City) on the set of 1984 film Firstborn. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2330012/How-Iron-Man-star-Robert-Downey-Jr-turned-life-prison-cocaine.html Page 3 of 10 How Iron Man star Robert Downey Jr turned his life around from prison and cocaine | Mail Online 8/30/14 2:41 PM Their relationship lasted seven turbulent years, but succumbed eventually to his increasingly out-of-control behaviour. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2330012/How-Iron-Man-star-Robert-Downey-Jr-turned-life-prison-cocaine.html Page 4 of 10 How Iron Man star Robert Downey Jr turned his life around from prison and cocaine | Mail Online 8/30/14 2:41 PM Ex-con: Addiction and recovery is all too familiar territory for the two-time Oscar nominee, whose taste for cocaine and heroin landed him in court-ordered rehab twice On the rebound and in a haze of drugs, Downey Jr met and married his first wife, actress and musician Deborah Falconer, in the space of 42 days in 1992. The couple had a son, Indio, now 19, but the responsibilities of being a husband and father did nothing to quell his hell-raising. Nor did a series of commercial flops, including the 1990 action adventure Air America in which he starred with Mel Gibson, help calm his self-destructive tendencies. In 1997, Downey Jr was given a 180-day jail sentence in LA for violating probation, but was caught fighting with another inmate. Amid reports he was being targeted by other prisoners, he twice woke up from attacks in a pool of his own blood. He says of his time in jail: ‘I would never tell you the worst things that have happened to me.’ In 1999, after failing to show up for a court-ordered drugs test, he was sentenced to three years in a state-run substance abuse facility and prison in California. He served 12 months of his sentence before being freed by a judge. But his reliance on drink and drugs was far from over. On his release in 2000, he was given the part of Calista Flockhart’s boyfriend in the TV legal drama Ally McBeal. He won a Golden Globe for his performance, but within months he was in trouble again. His room at a hotel in Palm Springs was searched by police, acting on a tip-off, who found methamphetamine and cocaine. Then, while on parole, Downey Jr was found wandering the streets of LA, barefoot and high as a kite. He was immediately sacked from Ally McBeal and sent back to rehab. It was the final straw for his wife Deborah, who left him, taking Indio with her, and filed for divorce. Where once he had earned up to £5!million a year, he was now deemed untouchable. To make matters worse, the U.S. taxman came after him and he was left close to bankruptcy. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2330012/How-Iron-Man-star-Robert-Downey-Jr-turned-life-prison-cocaine.html Page 5 of 10 How Iron Man star Robert Downey Jr turned his life around from prison and cocaine | Mail Online 8/30/14 2:41 PM An arrest mugshot of Downey Jnr in 1997 at Malibu, California. The same year he was given a 180-day jail sentence in LA for violating probation His road to redemption began in 2003 when Mel Gibson cast him in the lead role of the film version of Dennis Potter’s The Singing Detective. Gibson, who was the film’s producer, even had to personally underwrite Downey Jr’s liability insurance because he was deemed too much of a risk.
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