With her career and marriage under new pressure, the mother of three makes a spectacle of herself on a rare night out.
Actress Julia Roberts caused chaos at a star-studded fundraiser in New York last week. Hogging the microphone, she drunkenly ranted and embarrassed her peers and her husband, Danny Moder.
The uncomfortable scenes come in the wake of her sliding box office fortunes and the star’s confession that being a stay-at-home mum isn’t the bed of roses she once claimed.
Attending the Celebrity Charades event at New York’s LAByrinth Theater, Julia appeared keen not to waste any time – starting the evening early as she downed a string of beverages before hitting the stage.
“She was drinking vodka and tonic beforehand and was pretty tipsy by the time things started,” one guest told the New York Post. “None of her team-mates could decipher any of her clues.”
Clearly the worse for wear, Julia stunned the star-studded audience as she launched into a tirade, saying she rarely gets out. “I usually go to sleep at 8.15,” she ranted. “Let’s have some fun – I’m wearing tight pants and my kids are asleep!”
Throwing her former image as America’s sweetheart to the wind, a tipsy Julia then turned the air blue with her foul language.
“She screamed to the audience, ‘I can’t f** lose on this!’” reports another guest. “At one point, [actor] Sam Rockwell tried to carry her off stage, as he asked for ‘three bottles of water for Ms Roberts’.”
Danny looked on with raised eyebrows as the star offered to kiss anyone in the crowd who would bid for charity, but as the night wore on, her behaviour became more lewd.
“She tried to get her team to guess In The Heat Of The Night by rolling on the stage floor and pretending to make out with herself,” reveals a witness.
The 42-year-old star, who has made only a handful of films since the birth of her now five-year-old twins, Phinnaeus and Hazel, once claimed she was never bored devoting herself to her kids, even waxing lyrical about the joys of removing splinters.
“My life at home gives me absolute joy,” she boasted. “It’s super fun.” But earlier this year, with two-year-old son Henry added to the mix, she confessed that not everything was as rosy at home as she had claimed.
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