Hugh Grant shares infamous photo of himself with sex worker to hit back at critics: ‘To my dear trolls’
Actor was arrested for participating in ‘lewd conduct’ in a public place with Divine Brown in 1995
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Your support makes all the difference.Hugh Grant has shared a mug-shot of himself and the sex worker he was arrested with in the Nineties on Twitter, in an apparent attempt to bait his online trolls.
The photo, which shows Grant looking sheepishly down the camera lens with hunched shoulders, was taken in a Los Angeles police station after he was arrested for participating in “lewd conduct” in a public place with Divine Brown.
He shared the 1995 image with the caption: “To my dear trolls. Hope this is helpful. Now you have more time to spend with mummy.”
Grant’s arrest came one year after he shot to fame in Four Weddings and a Funeral, and he later called the incident a moment of “insanity”.
The actor, who was with his long-term partner Liz Hurley at the time, released the following statement of regret: “I have hurt people I love and embarrassed people I work with. For both things I am more sorry than I can ever possibly say.”
The News of the World reportedly paid Brown $100,000 for her story, which included her claim that Grant told her: “I always wanted to sleep with a black woman. That’s my fantasy.”
When Hurley eventually broke her silence on the event, two months after Grant’s arrest, she said that “she felt like she had been shot” on hearing he had sex with a sex worker.
Grant was ordered to pay a fine of $1,000 and go on an Aids education programme.
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