Mandela effect, unpopular and untrue rumour, or is my brain just broken?
Sometime between 2005 and 2012, i remember hearing that Cillian Murphy had a serious heroin addiction, and that it was a liability preventing him from a more successful career. I remember learning about it, from either an article or an in-person conversation, in relation to Wes Bentley’s crippling heroin addiction causing his work and role options to plummet. I remember there being mention of hope thay both young actors would pull an RDJ, get their shit together, and reclaim the promise they showed in their earlier years, because it was obvious they had REAL acting chops.
I distinctly remember having a conversation about all of this with my friend Kirk in 2017, and him saying that he had hope too, but not much, because heroin addiction is almost impossible to fully bounce back from, unless you’re part of “Hollywood Royalty” (Drew Barrymoore, Robert Downey Jr., Carrie Fisher (though, much like Tatum O'Neal, her career aguably never actually met her early promise)).
Anyhow, for some reason today i thought “how come nobody ever talks about Murphy’s past, and how he’s a goddamn inspirational fucking rainbow of a person, to have not only bounced back, but leapt forward into a wildly successfuland truly dynamic career?!”
So i do a lot of duck-duck-going and i cannot find a single mention ANYWHERE of him ever having had any substance abuse problems whatsoever, or even a hint at a slight slump in his ascension to the top of Hollywood. Nowhere!
So, how did i come to have this “knowledge”? Was it from the (what i now know were mostly drug addled and rambling) lies of the momentarily famous indie writer/director that i had a relationship with? Was it from an article? Was it from some other inane conversation? Did i just Athena this “fact” into being (was it my “Tommy Lee Jones is gay” moment)? Or is this a less experienced Mandela Effect borne from the Mayan aApocalypse that caused the universal hard reset in December 2012 (hah ha)?
Anyone else ever hear thos rumour?
Regardless, it is good to read that Wes Bentley’s career seems to be back on track, and that he sites RDJ as the inspiration for his recovery.
