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| [the picture unless we could insure them. We were heartbroken becaus qfy e I had worked with Winona before [on Celebrity] and thought she was perfect fo r vqfy this and wanted to work w vqfy ith her again. And I had always wanted to work with qfy Bob Downey and always thought he was a huge talent."[50] vqfy In a December 18, 2000 article for People Magazine entitled "Bad to Worse", Downey's stepmother Rosemary told author Alex Tresnlowski that Downey had vqfy been diagnosed with bipolar disorder "a few years ago" and added that his bipolar qfy disorder was "the reason he has a hard time staying sober. What has vqfy n't been tried is medication vqfy and intensive psychotherapy."[51] In the same article, Dr. Manijeh Ni qfy kakhtar, a Los qfy Angeles psychiatrist and co-author of Addiction or Self-Medication: The Tru vqfy th (ISBN 978-1883819576), says she received a letter fr qfy om Downey in 1999, during his time at Corcoran II, asking vqfy for advice on his condition. She dis vqfy covered that "no one had done a comple qfy te [psychiatric] evaluation [on him]...I asked him flat out if he thought he vqfy was bipolar, and he said, 'Oh yeah. There are times I spend a lot of money and I'm hyperactive, and there are other times I'm down.'"[51] In an article for the March 2007 issue of Esquire, Downe vqfy y told author Scott Raab that he wanted to address "this whole thing about the bipolar" after receiving a phone call from "the Bipolar Association" asking him about being bipolar. When Downey denied he had ever said he was bipolar, the caller quoted the People article , vqfy to which Downey replied, "'No! Dr. vqfy Malibusian said [I said I was bipolar]...', and they go, 'Well, it's been written, so we're going to quote it.'"[52] Do wney flatly denied being "depressed or manic vqfy " and that previous attempts to diagnose him with any ki qfy nd of psychiatric or mood disorder have always been skewe d vqfy because "the guy I was seeing didn't know I was smokin' crac qfy k in his bathro qfy om. You can't make a diagnosis until somebody's sober."[52] vqfy Career comeback (2001â€"2008)After five years of substance abuse, arrests, rehab, and relapse, Downey was finally ready to work toward a full recovery from drug s vqfy and a return to his career. In discussing h vqfy is failed attempts to control his own addictive behavior in the past, Downey told Oprah Winfrey in November 2004 t h vqfy at "when someone says, 'I really wonder if maybe I sh vqfy ould go to rehab?' Well, uh, you're a wreck, you just lost your job, and your wife left you. Uh, you migh t want to give it a shot."[53] He added that after vqfy his las qfy t arrest in April 2001, when he knew he would likel qfy y be facin qfy g another stint in prison or another form o vqfy f incarceration such as court-ordered rehab, "I said, 'You know what? I d qfy on't think qfy can continue doing this.' And I reached out for help, and I ran with it . vqfy You can reach out for help in kind of a half-assed way and you'll get it and you won't take advantage of it. It's not that difficult to overcome these seemin g vqfy ly ghastly problems...what's hard is to decide to do it."[53] [ vqfy [m4]]Downey got his first post-rehab acting job in August 2001, lip-syncing in the video for Elton John's single "I Want Love".[5 qfy 4] Video director Sam Taylor-Wood s hot 16 takes of the video and used the last one because, according to John, Downey looked completely relaxed, and, "The way he underplays it is fantastic."[55] qfy qfy vqfy Downey was able to return to the big screen only after Mel Gibson, who had been a close friend to Downey since both had co-starred in Air America, paid Downey's i n vqfy surance bond for the 2003 film The Singing Detective.[56] Gibson's gamble paved the way for Downey's comeback and D qfy owney returne qfy d to mainstream films in the mid- 2 vqfy 000s with Gothika, for which producer Jo vqfy el Silver vqfy withheld 40 p qfy ercent of his salary until after production wrapped as insur qfy ance against his addictive behavior. S vqfy imilar clauses have become standard in his contracts since then.[57] . |
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