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For Farrell, Mum’s the word

February 16, 2011

By Staff Reporter

The Irish hellraiser, whose hard-partying ways have made him a legend in Hollywood, admitted recently that his mother doesn’t completely approve of his lifestyle.
“My Mum wishes I drank and smoked a little less,” he told Eve magazine. “[But] I’m only 27 and I work really hard . . . You have to be able to shut off from that.”
The pressures of stardom, as well as the tedium of day-to-day moviemaking, force Colin to find an outlet for his excess energy.
“After a long day, I can’t go home and go to bed,” he said. Of course, if stories about his non-stop womanizing are to be believed, it’s hard to know when he has time to get out of it. But that’s another story.
“I have to have a couple of pints, shoot the s*** or see a film,” he said. He insists that the reports of his drinking binges – and Ireland’s rep as a nation of boozehounds – is a bum rap.
“I’m just a normal Irish person,” he growled. “We turn up for work on time. We go to the pub. We don’t rob from our mother’s purse to get a drink.”
He says that, deep down, his mother is cool with his choices.
“She knows I’m just finding my way in the world,” he said.

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