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ROBERT DOWNEY JR
ROBERTS LIFE

Robert John Downey, Jr. (born April 4, 1965) is an American actor,

filmmaker, and singer. Making his screen debut at the age of five, appearing
in his father Robert Downey, Sr.'s film Pound. After being released in 2000
from the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison
where he was on drug charges, Downey joined the cast of the TV series Ally
McBeal. His more recent films include, includes saga of Iron Man, The
Avengers and Sherlock Holmes.

HIS REAL PROBLEMS: DRUGS, ALCOHOL AND PRISON

From 1996 through 2001, Downey was arrested numerous times on drugrelated charges including cocaine, heroin and marijuana and went several
times through drug treatment programs unsuccessfully and explaining to a
judge : "It's like I've got a shotgun in my mouth with my finger on the
trigger, and I like the taste of the gun metal."
He explained his relapses by claiming to have been addicted to drugs since
the age of eight, due to the fact that his father, also an addict, had been
giving them to him. In April 1996, Downey was arrested for possession of
heroin, cocaine and an unloaded .357 Magnum handgun while he was
speeding down Sunset Boulevard. A month later, while on parole, he
trespassed into a neighbor's home while under the influence and fell asleep
in one of the beds. He was sentenced to three years of probation and
required to undergo compulsory drug testing.
In 1999, he was arrested once more, he was sentenced to a three-year
prison term at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State
Prison in Corcoran, California. At the time of the 1999 arrest, all of Downey's
film projects had wrapped and were close to release.
Downey, on condition of posting $5,000 bail, was unexpectedly freed, and a
week after his 2000 release, Downey joined the cast of the hit television
series Ally McBeal, playing a role. His performance was praised and the
following year he was nominated for an Emmy Award and won a Golden
Globe for Best Supporting Actor in a mini-series or television film. But he
was arrested because of be under the influence of a controlled substance
and in possession of cocaine and Valium. He signed on to appear in at least
eight more Ally McBeal episodes.
THE COMEBACK

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After five years of substance abuse, arrests, rehab, and relapse, Robert
Downey Jr. was finally ready to work toward a full recovery from drugs and a
return to his career. In discussing his failed attempts to control his own
addictive behavior in the past, Downey told Oprah Winfrey in November
2004 that "when someone says, 'I really wonder if maybe I should go to
rehab?' Well, uh, you're a wreck, you just lost your job, and your wife left
you. Uh, you might want to give it a shot."
Downey got his first post-rehab acting job in August 2001, lip-syncing in the
video for Elton John's single "I Want Love". Downey was able to return to the
big screen only after Mel Gibson, who had been a close friend to Downey
since both had co-starred in Air America, paid Downey's insurance bond for
the 2003 film The Singing Detective.Gibson's gamble paved the way for
Downey's comeback and Downey returned to mainstream films in the mid2000s with Gothika, for which producer Joel Silver withheld 40 percent of his
salary until after production wrapped as insurance against his addictive
behavior.
On November 23, 2004, Downey released his debut musical album, The
Futurist, In 2006, Downey returned to his television roots when he gueststarred on Family Guy in the episode "The Fat Guy Strangler". Downey had
previously telephoned the show's production staff and asked if he could
produce or assist in an episode creation,
But the real new comeback was with in 2008. When Downey starred in two
critically and commercially successful films, Iron Man and Tropic Thunder.
Following the tremendous success of 2008's Iron Man, Downey agreed to
reprise his role as Tony Stark in two more Iron Man films as well as the
superhero team put together by S.H.I.E.L.D., The Avengers. After appearing
in a connecting cameo scene at the end of the 2008 version of The
Incredible Hulk, Downey returned as Tony Stark in the first of two planned
sequels to Iron Man, Iron Man 2, opened in May 2010. It grossed over $623M
worldwide, becoming the 7th highest grossing film of 2010.
Although his career early in the new millennium was well affected to be
considered a high-risk player, has managed to stay clean since, regaining
control of his personal and professional life. It is now listed by Time
magazine as one of the most influential people in the world to overcome
their addiction problems.
Robert Downey Jr. now says: "No to drugs, and I do not drink."

RESPOND TO CRISIS

In my opinion, Robert, at first, used "excuses" to try to explain his addiction

to drugs. After that, he had a very hectic time when even he had to go to

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detox and rehabilitation centers did not last in them, which would have been
a "corrective action."
However, "apologies", acknowledgments and recognitions did not arrive
until it was recovered in 2002 of all relapses.
After successful recovery, Robert has not stopped working and being open
to responding to the interviews in order to show total dissatisfaction with
their previous addiction.
Nowadays is Robert who is trying to help his friend, Mel Gibson, who once
helped Robert with his addiction saying: I humbly ask you to join me if they
are not free from sin, in which case they would have been wrong industry, to
forgive my friend his outbursts and make a fresh start, as they did with me,
allowing him to continue his career and his ongoing contribution this art
without any shame."

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