Banned from flights at JFK airport for drinking too much Vodka. Witnessed drinking extra strong cider at 10AM. Arrested for being drunk at Dublin Airport. A suicide attempt and at least a dozen trips to rehab. Yes, it is fair to say that Jonathan Rhys Meyers has had his fair share of problems with alcohol over the years.
"I was wild, I was as wild as you can get," he admits on the Jonathan Ross Show. "When you are on the front of newspapers for stupidity, getting drunk at airports, fighting with cops and stuff like that, you wake up the next day and you can hardly f***ing remember it. Responsibility gets diminished. But accountability does not."
Jonathan Rhys Meyers spoke into his hands as he recalled some of his darkest moments with alcohol.
"As you get older you see the stupid things you have done. It is not the consequences for yourself but your family get hurt, your friends get hurt. At some point you come to a place – and I was lucky because some of my friends have never got to that place – where I saw it as something that was separate from me. It is kind of insanity to do it to that level. I was able to come to that realisation and I look for different things in life now. I had a good chat with my really close friends and I came to the end of whatever, going out, getting pi**ed, getting into trouble. It got really boring because I knew where I was going to go the whole time. I knew where I was going to end up. Now I don’t do nothing. Once you make the decision you have had enough of something, the decision is made you have had enough."
Jonathan Rhys Meyers has now sorted out his life with the help of his friends. He is now free of alcohol and is now focused on being a great actor.
His new role is as Dracular in the series which has already become a hit in America.
He says, "Dracula is really a monster and he is addicted to blood. But you can’t make a 10-hour series out of the original book. There is not enough there. It is beautifully written but what we did is take the story and try to modernise it with modern elements of power, corruption, wealth. We wanted to take the Dracula story and bring in a kind of Da Vinci Code. A financial and political side. There is a bit of sex as well."
In this version of Dracula, Jonathan Rhys Meyers plays the 15th Century Romanian warlord, Vlad the Impaler, as he relocates to Victorian England in the form of Alexander Grayson, a young European-American businessmen.
Dracula airs on Sky Living on Thursday evenings.
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