Tudors actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers has checked himself into rehab for the 4th time for his long-time struggle with alcohol addiction. Or as the rest of the world calls it, “being Irish.” The Daily Mail says:

The 33-year-old actor, who has a long history of battling alcohol addiction, is believed to have spent 10 days in a London clinic last month.

Rhys Meyers’ stay in the Capio Nightingale Hospital is his fourth attempt at rehab.

The incident is believed to have been the final straw for his girlfriend, heiress Reena Hammer, who is said to have told him: ‘Check into rehab or I’m dumping you.’

It was about this point that my mother-in-law — who’s been staying with us for the last three days, BTW — plops down next to me and says, “Do you mind if I use your computer for a minute? I need to check my email real fast.” What she actually means is “I have some Jesus emails I need to mass-send to all of my contacts and some forwarded jokes to chuckle at loudly and then read aloud to you.” So I say not right now, I need to finish working, but later is fine.

So she sits there for a minute and then goes, “Well, what are you writing about?” and I say “Jonathan Rhys-Meyers,” knowing full well she’s gonna say “who?” and then tell me she’s never heard of him before. So I try to beat her to the punch and say, “He’s an actor on The Tudors,” and then she says, “The Tutors?” and I say, “No, Tudors. As in King Henry VIII,” and she goes, “Well, I never heard of him before.” And then she peers over my shoulder at the computer screen and goes, “Ohhh… I know who he is. That’s the Scarecrow in that awful Batman movie with Heath Ledger.” At that point I seriously debated killing myself before deciding it was never too early for that second bottle of wine.

With his girlfriend pre-rehab:

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