Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. From his partying ways to his public flings, Colin Farrell was once known as Hollywood's bad boy. Now, the 48-year-old Irish actor is living life as a devoted dad of two and credits his elder son, James — who has a rare neurogenic disorder called Angelman syndrome — for his sobriety of nearly twenty years.
At the height of his career, the Golden Globe Award winner had fame, wealth, high-profile relationships and more. The actor was rumored to have had romances with stars including Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, Angelina Jolie and Rihanna. Farrell was rumored to have had a brief romance with Britney Spears.
But behind that public persona, Farrell was struggling. "I had suspicions, before I got sober, of how painful life could be," Farrell told Jamie Lee Curtis during a paired interview with Variety in 2022. "But I had no ability to hold that without being self-destructive and without living in it.
" COLIN FARRELL TEARS UP WHILE SPEAKING ABOUT HIS 20-YEAR-OLD SON WITH RARE NEUROGENIC DISORDER: ‘HE’S MAGIC' Farrell was once rumored to have dated Rihanna. (Getty Images) For years, Farrell found himself tangled up in the downward spiral of addiction. "The amount of energy you have to put in and the amount of lies you have to tell to keep a drug habit alive, it’s fairly significant.
Your whole life is a lie," Farrell told Details Magazine in 2012, per Destination hope Treatment Center . It wasn't until the .