Celebrities That Committed Horrible Crimes

Robert Downey Jr. – Drug Charges

Downey, who claims to have had been addicted to drugs since he was 8 years old, has been arrested numerous times on drug charges and had been through almost as many rehab programs, unsuccessfully.After one such rehab program failures, he explained to a judge that “It’s like I’ve got a shotgun in my mouth with my finger on the trigger, and I like the taste of the gun metal.”Downey Jr. was finally ready to work toward a full recovery after 5 long years of drug abuse, arrests and rehab.He got his first post- rehab job on a music video for Elton John, and was able to return to the big screen in 2003’s The Singing Detective, only after long-time friend, Mel Gibson, paid Downey’s insurance bond out of his own pocket.