No One's Escaped the Consequences of His Rude Behavior More than Hugh Grant

By Dustin Rowles | Celebrity | March 8, 2023 |

By Dustin Rowles | Celebrity | March 8, 2023 |

In 1995, Hugh Grant appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and addressed his arrest for receiving oral sex from sex worker Divine Brown. Grant did not deny anything. He did not try to make excuses. “I think you know in life what’s a good thing to do and what’s a bad thing, and I did a bad thing. And there you have it,” he told Leno in what would be characterized by the media as “refreshing honesty.” Grant suffered no consequences for a mistake that could have cost him his career.

I don’t care that Hugh Grant got a blow job from a sex worker, and I also applaud the man’s “refreshing honesty,” but in the 28 years since that appearance on The Tonight Show, Grant has consistently escaped the consequences of his own assholery by confronting it with “refreshing honesty” because it turns out that — for Hugh Grant, anyway — refreshing honesty is a cure-all.

Take, for instance, the time that Jon Stewart called Hugh Grant the worst guest he’s ever had. He was banned from The Daily Show over his backstage behavior. Did Grant deny it? He did not. Years later, the very disarming Grant confessed to his own assholery and apologized. “I did have a tantrum backstage. About once a year, I have a really mega-tantrum, and sadly he witnessed one. So he’s absolutely right,” Grant told Andy Cohen.

Turns out my inner crab got the better of me with TV producer in 09.
Unforgivable. J Stewart correct to give me kicking.

— Hugh Grant (@HackedOffHugh) December 14, 2012

A few years later, on The Graham Norton Show, Grant very disarmingly admitted that several of his female costars — Julianne Moore, Drew Barrymore, Rachel Weisz — loathed him. These women hate him, which he concedes. They must have a reason for it — he must have been terrible to them on the set of their films — and yet Hugh Grant not only confessed to it but is again beloved for his refreshing honesty.

Once an asshole, always an asshole, I suppose, because it’s happened again. This time, while filming Dungeons and Dragons, Grant flipped out, had a meltdown, and yelled at a “nice local woman.” Once again, he didn’t deny it. He was “refreshingly honest” in admitting what an asshole he was, jokingly comparing himself to Christian Bale in Terminator: Salvation. From Page Six:

“I lost my temper with a woman in my eye line on day one,” the actor, 62, told Total Film magazine. “I assumed she was some executive from the studio who should have known better.” Grant continued, “Then it turns out that she’s an extremely nice local woman who was the chaperone of the young girl.” The “Love Actually” star called his temper tantrum “terrible” and explained that his episode ended with “a lot of groveling.”

“I did a Christian Bale,” Grant joked, referencing when the fellow actor was famously caught on tape aggressively yelling at a “Terminator: Salvation” crew member in 2009. Afterward, Bale, 49, apologized profusely and called his actions “inexcusable.”

Grant flipped out at someone, admitted it, and now it’s yet another cute anecdote about what a giant prick he really is. I suppose the unfortunate takeaway is that it’s OK to be a jackass as long as you admit you’re being a jackass.

Source: Page Six