Robert Downey Jr.: Going to prison was 'the worst thing that happened to me'
There was a time in the 1990s when the actor was struggling with addiction and in a great deal of legal trouble. During a recent conversation for Dax Shepard’s “Armchair Expert” podcast, Downey talked about being incarcerated in 1999, which he likened to “being sent to a distant planet where there is no way home until the planets align.” “You could just feel the evil in the air, and that was no trouble at all because it was kind of like just being in a really bad neighborhood,” he said.
He also was arrested in April of 2000 after Los Angeles police found him wandering in an alleyway. Long since sober and successful, Downey Jr. described during the podcast how deeply troubled he was at the time. “I’m gonna try to give you the flashcards,” he said. “I’m in court, I’m being over-sentenced by an angry judge, and at some point he said something in Latin. I thought he was casting a spell on me.
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