[Janet Charlton] There’s more than meets the eye to this actor’s sudden and unexpected sobriety.
He never had a reputation as a partier, and when he recently announced he’d given up drinking, questions arose. Why did he quit?
The inside story is that our seemingly straight leading man was in the habit of getting liquored up and cruising Craigslist for twinky young guys. One of these playful hustlers caused a loud incident in which police were almost called. He paid the kid to keep quiet and that close call is the reason he stopped drinking.