Hugh Grant is pure British irony, and even his greatest transgressions have been archived in the popular imagination with a tinge of charismatic anecdote. Of course, it was the 90s, and even Charles of England starred in what was then understood as a s-xual scandal. In 1995, the protagonist of Four Weddings and a Funeral was arrested while having s-x in a car with Divine Brown, an American woman who worked as a prostitute. Hugh Grant was brought to justice by agents who, after what happened was made public, would speak to the media about how polite the actor was with them at all times.
His public apology on Jay Leno's show was one of the television events of the decade, as convincing as it must have been when he apologized to Liz Hurley: the actress, who was his partner and remained so until 2000, also he let out of that one and is still his great friend today. And 26 years after the incident, Hugh Grant spoke publicly about this career-defining event, revealing several things we still didn't know.
"One thing led to another"
After the success of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Hugh Grant made his debut at the North American box office with Nine Months, a romantic comedy in which he starred alongside Julianne Moore, Jeff Goldblum, Robin Williams and Joan Cusack and in which he plays a man about to of being a parent who is overwhelmed with responsibilities. According to what the actor told in an American podcast (WTF with Marc Maron), it was his insecurities regarding his performance in the film that pushed him to make a clearly erratic and questionable decision.
"I went to see a screening. Everyone was brilliant, but my acting was so atrocious that it didn't put me in a good place mentally. So after a meal with too much alcohol, one thing led to another. He was disappointed in me." myself, I don't know what happened to me," he says.
Paradoxically, the film was a success in Hollywood and reaped a good fortune. The s-x scandal didn't go all wrong either: Hugh Grant was sentenced to two years' probation, paid a £760 fine and had to attend an HIV awareness seminar, but his press agent was happy with a move that finally "it was great" for his career and that the actor still remembers several years later.
And the matter was also advantageous for Divine Brown, who already prefers to speak to the media with her name, Stella Thompson, and has commented sympathetically on several occasions on the personal life of Hugh Grant. Thompson earned close to $1.5 million for speaking to the media after she was arrested along with Hugh Grant. As a result, she and her husband moved into a four-bedroom house they were able to buy in Beverly Hills, and the couple was able to send their daughters to private school: "Everything turned out fine," she said several years ago. after. "He helped me turn it into something positive and allowed me to let go of that life."
