French-born actor Gerard
Depardieu must have a hollow leg — or one seriously scarred liver. The
Oscar-nominated thespian, who ditched France to become a Russian citizen in 2013 and was found guilty in a 2012 DUI arrest, is making headlines once again since telling UK publication So Film that he can drink “12, 13, 14 bottles” of wine a day — and barely feel a thing.
“I’m never totally drunk, just a
little pissed,” he said, using British parlance for “buzzed,” and
explaining, “When I’m bored, I drink, apart from occasional compulsory
moments of abstinence. After undergoing bypass surgery (five times), and
also because of cholesterol and stuff, I have to be careful.”
Now that explains why he released his golden stream of toxic waste in the airplanes aisle, a few years back.
Depardieu, who is currently starring in “Welcome to New York,”
based on the Dominic Strauss-Khan scandal, added that drinking a case
of wine in one day doesn’t even slow him down. “All you need is a
10-minute nap and voilà, a slurp of rosé wine and I feel as fresh as a
daisy!” he said. “I have to admit that when I start counting, doctors
start worrying.”
That’s not exactly a surprise,
according to Dr. James Garbutt, professor of psychiatry and a research
scientist at University of North Carolina’s Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies.
“That’s a tremendous amount of alcohol,” Garbutt told Yahoo Health —
even, he added, when considering a range of possibilities, such as that
Depardieu chooses wine with low alcohol content, or takes the stretch of
an entire day to sip his way through the many bottles.
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