Tom Sizemore has had a rough time of it lately. As well as seeing his big film roles dry up, he’s been getting into all sorts of other problems.

Yesterday, Tom Sizemore missed a probation violation hearing because he’s apparently checked into a rehab clinic. And it’s just the latest thing in a series of very odd incidents.

Tom Sizemore (DVDs) has been in films such as Saving Private Ryan, Pearl Harbour
and Natural Born Killers. But his last vaguely big name production was
a videogame – GTA Vice City to be precise. Then, two years ago he was
convicted for domestic violence towards his ex-girlfriend Heidi Fleiss,
although he’s remaining free while he appeals.

Then last October, Sizemore pleaded guilty to possession of
methamphetamine and was ordered into drug treatment – part of which
involved giving a urine test every three days. And here’s where the
story gets really strange…

There is a product on the market called The Whizzinator. It’s a
prosthetic penis attached to, basically, a bag of warm piss that you
wear under your pants. You fill the bag with clean urine (the Whizzinator people also sell clean dehydrated urine). And
then, when it’s time for you to give your sample of drug-test wee, you
pop out your (colour-coordinated) fake penis and empty the clean piss into the
sample tub. And nobody ever gets caught.

Except Tom Sizemore, that is. A drug counsellor testified that Sizemore had tried to use a
Whizzinator to fake a drugs test, and he was ordered back to court for
violating his probation. if he’s found guilty, he could face three years in prison.

Yesterday’s hearing was rescheduled for July 22nd.

[story by Stuart Heritage]