When he told a judge, 'It's like I've got a shotgun in my mouth, my finger on the trigger, and I like the taste of gun metal', he seemed trapped in a sordid Hollywood cliché about a life and career gone off the rails. Here was a man who fell with the acceleration of Satan: cocaine, jail, driven to the brink. He was receiving four hours a day of drug counselling where fellow inmates screamed: 'What's wrong with you, Downey? You had everything! And you blew it, man!'į Scott Fitzgerald's dictum that 'there are no second acts in American lives' has been quoted to death, and Downey should bury it for good. The Oscar nominee, who commanded $7m a year in Hollywood, was inmate P50522 earning eight cents an hour scrubbing pizza pans. Perhaps it was when the prison kitchen flooded and he waded through floating rubbish that Robert Downey Jr hit bottom.
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