Former youngster star Haley Joel Osment is apologizing for utilizing antisemitic slurs when cops arrested him for public intoxication earlier this month.
Osment, 37, completely informed The Publish on Thursday, “I’m absolutely horrified by my behavior. Had I known I used this disgraceful language in the throes of a blackout, I would have spoken up sooner.”
“The Sixth Sense” star continued, “The past few months of loss and displacement have broken me down to a very low emotional place.”
The actor not too long ago misplaced his residence within the Altadena wildfire in January, in the course of the Los Angeles wildfires that devastated the world and claimed the properties of different celebs like Joshua Jackson and Billy Crystal.
Sources informed TMZ that the “Secondhand Lions” actor had “been going through it recently,” as he misplaced “everything” within the Altadena wildfire and has since had problem together with his insurance coverage. After not too long ago discovering a “replacement” residence, Osment realized his insurer denied his declare, the outlet stated.
Osment continued in his assertion to The Publish, “But that’s no excuse for using this disgusting word. From the bottom of my heart, I apologize to absolutely everyone that this hurts. What came out of my mouth was nonsensical garbage – I’ve let the Jewish community down and it devastates me.”
He concluded: “I don’t ask for anyone’s forgiveness, but I promise to atone for my terrible mistake.”
On April 8, Osment was arrested for public intoxication and possession of a managed substance at a California ski resort.
He was taken into police custody in Mammoth Lakes, California, after legislation enforcement obtained a name shortly earlier than 2 p.m. that day, for an allegedly intoxicated individual at Mammoth Mountain resort.
In bodycam footage of his arrest, which The Publish obtained on Thursday, Osment referred to as a police officer an antisemitic slur and a “Nazi.”
At one level, he shouted, “I’ve been kidnapped by a f–king Nazi.” He additionally claimed he was “being attacked” and accused officers of “torturing me.”
Within the video, Osment was heard telling police, “You’re f–kin’ with my life.”
He was additionally caught on digicam saying to officers, “You’ll wish you treated me nicer,” earlier than hurling one other slur at considered one of them.
“I was decent to you and you, and you are a f–king k–e,” Osment acknowledged.
As he was being introduced into the jail, the actor informed cops, “Good luck.”
Osment was launched shortly after his arrest.
The district lawyer for Mono County, Calif., moved ahead with prices: possession of cocaine and disorderly conduct inebriated in public, each misdemeanors, per TMZ.
Osment, whose sister Emily Osment, 33, can be an actress – at the moment starring in “The Big Bang Theory” spinoff “Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage,” – has been concerned in intoxication incidents earlier than.
In 2006, when he was 18, he was arrested after he overturned his automotive and hit a mailbox in Los Angeles whereas intoxicated.
On the time, he pleaded no contest to 1 rely of driving inebriated and one rely of possession of marijuana.
The actor was sentenced to 3 years probation and 60 hours of rehab, in addition to six months of Alcoholics Nameless. Osment later spoke to The Publish about his arrest, calling the incident a “really, really serious lapse of judgment.”
