The Crazy Rants of Samantha BurnsIs He Settling Downey?
Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Levin married Saturday, in Long Island accompanied by celebrity guests Keanu Reeves, Billy Joel, Sting, and Ellen Barkin. The couple met on the set of the movie "Gothika" and have been dating ever since.
I wonder if Downey can maintain a more level-headed life now that he's found a woman who keeps tabs on him. Is he really a reformed man, or are his old habits going to creep back up on him?
For those who haven't heard about Downey's embarrassing past, in 1996 he had been pulled over for a routine speeding offense when police found heroin, crack and an unloaded gun in his car. As a result of his behaviour, Downey spent six years in and out of both prison and rehab.
Downey claims that since he met Levin, he became a new man by maintaining sobriety and taking over a new leaf. Downey states that Levin keeps him on a "freaking choke chain" and he loves it People Online. Kinky!
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for the last time...the gun was EMPTY!!!
okay, maybe it's cause I'm from the South. we pretty much all have guns in our cars. no, I'm not kidding, either.
Posted by: MacStansbury | August 29, 2005 03:39 AM
Except, loaded usually. . .
Posted by: Richard Smith | August 29, 2005 05:34 AM
"Downey claims that since he met Levin, he became a new man by maintaining sobriety and taking over a new leaf. Downey states that Levin keeps him on a "freaking choke chain" and he loves it People Online. Kinky!"
Not good IMHO someone changes because THEY make the decision, When the change is based on someone else it is often temporary.
Or at least that was my experience when I put the bottle donw 16 years ago. For me? I did not try to get into a relationship until "I" felt that "I" had changed. I spent some hard work and time before I felt ready to take the chance I might have a negative effect on another person's life.
But then what influenced me was having to help others try to pick up the pieces of their lives and their loved ones after the bottom dropped out .
That can be soberlng all by itself.
Things like telling the wife of a good friend who was the gentlest kindest person in the world when he was sober, but beat her when he was drunk that since she had a restraining order, and had found him passed out in one of the bedrooms when she got home, that she should take the kids and LEAVE right then and call the police from a safe place.
No people who say they are changed because of someone else are often just fooling themselves.
I cannot make a definitive statemnent on Downey because no one knows the real situation, but if a guy I sponsored were saying the same things,
We would be having a LONG serious talk.
I really hope I am wrong, but I have had too much experience being not right, but accurate in these matters. ;-(((
Posted by: Dan Kauffman | August 29, 2005 06:22 AM
Sadly, the reception came to a sudden halt when Downey attempted to snort the powdered sugar off of the fruit crudite...
Posted by: Anthony | August 29, 2005 10:34 AM