Maureen Callahan

This isn't cute.

This isn't poor tiger whose father shoved him onto a golf course as soon as he was able to stand on his own two feet.

This is not that.

Do you think the law... Okay, I pulled this.

I pulled this.

This is how we're going to close out this segment because I can think of no greater example of an extremely famous person who got pass after pass after pass for criminal drug-induced behavior until he did not.

In June 1996, Robert Downey Jr., who had a very heavy drug problem, was stopped by police after driving naked on Sunset Boulevard.

He was in possession of cocaine, heroin, and an unloaded .357 Magnum.

While out on parole, Robert Downey Jr.

then broke into a home in Malibu.

and was found what the press called asleep.

I'm going to call it passed out on drugs in a child's bedroom.

Eventually after getting all of these chances, which the judge we're going to hear reference in 1997, he did get, get a prison sentence and Robert Downey Jr wound up serving over one year in prison, not a club fed, not a fancy rehab prison.

between 1999 and 2000.

Let's listen to Robert Downey Jr.

talking some real talk at his sentencing.

Here we go.

Now, if you're only listening, I would encourage you to go watch this part of the show on YouTube because you will see after the judge says, in some substance, I'm not fucking around anymore.

You're a menace.

You're a menace to the rest of us law-abiding citizens who give a shit about our fellow citizens and would never think to do half the shit you're getting away with because you're famous.