Mourning Jonathan Rhys Meyer’s battle with booze continues

Poor Jonathan Rhys Meyers. The Irish actor’s battle with alcoholism burst into open view again on Saturday when he was at Dublin Airport staggering around the departure terminal while waiting for a flight to Vancouver.  Security guards escorted him away, and it’s believed he was denied boarding.

Turns out that JRM’s wife Mara Lane suffered a miscarriage and he’s been broken up about it.  So that likely explains why he turned to the bottle for solace.

Mara posted a lengthy message on her Instagram about their distress.  The baby would have been their second; son Wolf was born last December.

That’s too bad. Only last month Jonathan was pictured in Venice shooting The Aspern Papers with Vanessa Redgrave and Joely Richardson. Now, Mara reports, he is “safe and with his sober living companion and bodyguard to get into a detox closer to home since he was denied hospital help twice in Ireland because of an already two month wait period.”

Someone at the airport photographed him being escorted to a seat by security guards, and of course sold the pics to a tabloid.  Mara questioned why a stranger felt the need to humiliate someone who clearly needed assistance more than anything.

“I feel that whomever took photos of my husband was slightly in the wrong and was concerned for the wrong reasons but ... it's ok. It's ok. Maybe you have/had a family to feed and need/needed money? I don't know. We forgive you,” she wrote.

JRM wasn’t angry or belligerent at Dublin Airport. He just seemed lost, onlookers noted.

“He looked like someone who didn’t have a clue where he was. He was completely out of it. Other passengers were concerned to see him in such a way just after 10 a.m.,” one passenger told the Daily Mirror.