Paul Rudd reveals he was arrested twice before becoming a Hollywood star
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Paul Rudd has recalled his past run-ins with the law before finding fame. The actor opened up about his mischievous teenage days on the Tuesday, May 19, episode of Benny Blanco and Lil Dicky’s podcast ‘Friends Keep Secrets’.
During the podcast, the ‘This Is 40’ star was asked by Blanco if he had “ever been arrested?”
Paul Rudd recalls tense police stop during teen prank
“Two times, when I was a teenager. One time I was in a car, I was riding shotgun, my friend Mike was driving, and we had water guns and there was a car next to us, our friends,” he replied.
Rudd further revealed that his friends “had them, too. We were just having a water gun fight. We were just being rascals.” However, they were soon stopped by a police officer.
“This cop was a super psycho. He has a gun trained on us. And he comes walking around the side, and he says, ‘Alright, boy. Slowly, real slowly, hand over that water gun. And you better pray it’s a water gun,’” Rudd said, before adding, “And he has a gun on me. I’m like 16.”
Paul Rudd reveals reckless driving charge from teen years
The 57-year-old actor told the podcast hosts that the cop did not let them go without charging them both.
He said, “He wrote both of us up, and he gave Mike a ticket for reckless driving, and he gave me accomplice to reckless driving. He said it was ’cause you swerved into another lane.’ I was like, ‘What? No.’ But anyway, maybe he was just trying to teach us a lesson. I wound up having to go to court for that.”
Paul Rudd recalls underage drinking incident during college days
However, that was not all, as Rudd again faced a legal issue while he was in college.
“I was in college, my freshman year. I killed someone. And that was, let me tell you something, that was hard to get out of. I didn’t technically get out of it. It’s still a pain in the a**,” the ‘Role Models’ star mentioned.
Sharing the old story, Rudd told Blanco and Dicky, “I was in Lawrence, Kan., hanging outside of a bar called The Bull. I was kind of new to drinking, I’ll be honest with you,” when he was approached by police officers.
“I was underage, and so I just dumped it. He was like, ‘Was that yours?’ I was like, ‘Yeah, I wasn’t drinking it though.’ I think I gave him like the dumb, ‘I was holding it, I wasn’t drinking it,’” he added.
Following the incident, Rudd had to appear in court again, but this time he was ordered to do community service with the Boys and Girls Club.
