Here’s a lesson for you all – you should never, ever agree to play John Connor in a Terminator movie.

Look at Edward Furlong. You’ll remember Edward Furlong as the boy who played John Connor in Terminator 2 – although he’s desperate to lose that tag. In fact, if his ex-wife is to be believed, Edward Furlong would much rather be known these days as a violent, psychiatric hospital-dwelling drug addict with a sideline in genuinely terrifying voicemail messages.

These allegations make Edward Furlong sound like a fairly nasty piece of work. But he’s still no Christian Bale, is he? Must try harder, Edward.

We don’t know if the Curse Of John Connor is a thing yet but, if it isn’t, we’d like it to be. The most recent John Connor, Christian Bale, turned out to be a mother-shoving anger machine who can barely even get through a day without bawling “AH-DAH-DAH-DAH-DAH!” at an underling. And now it turns out that Edward Furlong, Terminator 2‘s John Connor, has got a bunch of problems of his own.

Edward Furlong has just been hit with a temporary restraining order instructing him to keep 100 yards away from his estranged wife Rachael Kneeland. Why? We’ll let E! Online explain:

She alleges his “drug use has escalated along with attacking me and threatening my life.” Her court petition states that during a Sept. 23 incident, the 32-year-old Furlong “grabbed me, bruised me, pushed me…[and] left messages saying he would hire people to come and beat me with chains and bats… He is smoking cocaine and doing other various drugs,” she claims. “He is very unpredictable.”

Kneeland also goes on to say that she called police during the fight because at one point Edward Furlong threatened to kill himself. Which at least means that Edward Furlong now has something in common with Vanilla Ice aside from the fact that both of them were quite famous in the early 1990s but nobody really knows who either of them are any more. Rachael Kneeland also claims that Edward Furlong is now under ‘lockdown’ in a psychiatric hospital.

Edward Furlong’s reps deny these allegations, saying that none of that actually happened and that he’s been sober for five years, but that’s by the by. Because, be honest, if your childhood was largely comprised of running away from a creepy robot policeman who stabbed people through the head with his metal hands for a living, you’d probably be pretty messed up as well.

But don’t you see? The Curse Of John Connor is real! First Christian Bale, now Edward Furlong. Seriously, if we hear tomorrow that the weird little Efron-lite John Connor from The Sarah Connor Chronicles has set himself on fire and kicked over a load of farm animals while crying uncontrollably and screaming the theme-tune to Oh, Dr Beeching! into his fists, we won’t be in the least bit surprised. It’s the curse, we tell you. The curse!

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