Irish actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers has been hitting the bottle a little too much between takes, it seems. You may recognise him from a bunch of artsy-fartsy flicks, but we just know him as that one guy in Mission: Impossible III.

No, no, he’s not the big black dude in M:I III, or the annoying short guy with the big nose that stars in the franchise, but the tall delicious dish that was a side-kick, or whatever. Yes, very tasty indeed.  

But that’s beside the point. Hot people have problems too, you know. It’s not all diamonds in the sky, bottles of Cristal overflowing in the back of Diddy’s Escalade, helping Lindsay Lohan spin records at Club Hyde and all. The attractive portion of society turns to destructive forms of self-medication just like you do. That’s why Rhys Meyers has checked into rehab for alcohol dependency, and why we developed out penchant for sniffing rubber cement glue when we were six years old.  Although, we really blame that on our second grade teacher Mrs. Kinghorn – she’s the one that introduced it and continued to enable our habit during art class.  

However, we have rebounded nicely from the toxic inhalations with far less brain-damage than anyone expected, and we hope Jonathan Rhys Meyers will have the same good fortune. Lately, he’s been ripping up the small screen in the HBO series The Tudors. He was also recently seen in Woody Allen’s movie Match Point, and has been filming more stuff in the past year than our old, arthritic granny could shake a badly gnarled finger at.

Let’s see what standard ‘celebrity entering rehab’ statement his PR slave Meredith O'Sullivan provided: 

"After a non-stop succession of filming, Jonathan Rhys Meyers has entered an alcohol-treatment program… He felt a break was needed to maintain his recovery." 

We’d be remiss if we didn’t express that we are a tad disappointed. Couldn’t Rhys Meyers have given us a little more drama before he checked in? A little DUI, warning letters from production companies, a bit of head shearing, or something? Seriously, Johnny, this whole approach of realising you have a problem and responsibly checking into rehab is so boring. Maybe he’s saving a dramatic rehab-romance or post-rehab relapse complete with mug-shots and court appearances for later.

We’re gonna keep that dream alive.

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Jonathan Rhys Myers Checks Into Rehab – People