Jonathan Rhys Meyers is still drinking, and still causing problems at airports. That’s what Radar claims, with a source telling them about a recent incident involving Jonathan at New York’s JFK airport, “pounding drinks” and creating a big problem with his drunken, “belligerent” behavior. He was so bad that he was banned from flying, not just that day, but ever again on United Airlines.

I was trying to research to see just how many times Jonathan has been arrested, created disturbances or been a general drunken nuisance, and I get exhausted just looking at the incidents. At least one of those occasions came right after his mom died, so there’s that one. But there has been at least two more incidents. Also – I believe the count is at “three” for “Jonathan’s rehab stints”. Third time was not the charm.

Tudors star Jonathan Rhys Meyers has had his fair share of run-ins at airports and a chronicled battle with alcohol. Now, a source has exclusively confirmed to RadarOnline.com that the actor has now been banned from flying United Airlines due to a recent drunken display.

According to a source at John F. Kennedy airport in New York, in early May Rhys Myers was booked on a United Airlines flight headed to Los Angeles. Despite the early morning departure time, airline workers noticed the actor “pounding drinks” in the first class lounge and becoming increasingly drunk and disorderly.

Rhys Myers then attempted to board the plane but was prohibited from flying due to “belligerent” and “disruptive” behavior that “was getting out of control.”

When contacted by RadarOnline.com, an official from United Airlines confirmed the story but refused to elaborate, citing passenger privacy laws.

The Tudors actor has a history of traveling misbehavior. In 2007, seven months after checking into rehab for the second time, he was arrested at Dublin airport and charged with being drunk and in breach of peace (the charges were later dropped). Then, in June 2009, three months after checking out of rehab the third time, he was arrested after allegedly attacking a number of staff at a bar in Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport.

[From Radar]

Look, I’m not so much of an a–hole that I don’t feel bad for the guy. He’s obviously an alcoholic who is really struggling. And I can mostly forgive some anger and drunken belligerence at airports, just because airports are horrible, and I always feel like I need a drink too. But after so many times, don’t you think Jonathan would wise up? That he would say to himself “If I go to this airport alone, I’m going to end up pounding drinks at the bar and I’ll just cause a disturbance, so I better bring a sober minder with me.”

Before I get into the specifics of this situation, let’s just play a little game. Say I provide you with two different versions of the same event, and it is your duty to choose which version is the most likely. I will lay out the two scenarios as such:

Scenario 1: Sharon Stone is a lovely, thoughtful, conscientious person who got special approval to take two carry-on pieces onto her flight from Montana to Utah. A random stewardess saw Sharon Stone and decided to take out all of her anger, rage, and insanity on Sharon Stone, screaming at Sharon several times about her carry-on luggage. Sharon, being a shy, vulnerable sort of woman, was willing to give up her carry-ons to ease this stewardess’s problems, under the condition that she be provided with some kind of private security to help her through the Salt Lake City terminal.

Scenario 2: Sharon Stone is a crazy bitch who picked a fight with a stewardess, then acted insane through an entire flight. When the plane landed Sharon Stone was detained, and perhaps arrested, by the Salt Lake City police.

So which one sounds more likely? You be the judge – here’s Style List’s report:

Sharon Stone’s famous temper got her into trouble on a flight from Kalispell, MT to Salt Lake City, UT yesterday.

According to a witness on board: “The flight attendant in Kalispell asked her to gate check her bag and Sharon refused and got into a huge fight with her. They eventually took the bag from her and she screamed at her assistant with her and made a scene during the entire flight.”

The source told me: “When the plane got to Salt Lake City it was met by armed Salt Lake City police officers. She was detained. Its not clear if she was arrested.”

But Stone’s rep, Paul Bloch, says the person who met her at the airport was “private security hired by Sharon. She was not detained by police.” Bloch also said Stone was traveling alone, without an assistant.

“Sharon had been visiting her father in Montana, and was approved to take both bags on the plane. When she got to the plane, she told me the stewardess screamed at her that she couldn’t take both bags on board,” said Bloch.

According to Stone’s version of events, the stewardess on the Delta connection operated by SkyWest “screamed” at her not once, but twice, over the luggage, before the actress eventually surrendered a bag.

After hearing Sharon’s take on the matter–specifically that police weren’t involved–we went back to the witness. The source said: “It was definitely police, the uniform had a big Salt Lake City police patch on the side. And there were also at least four customer service/security agents from the airline. The flight attendant she fought with was named Ebony. Ms Stone was definitely acting irrationally.”

Finally, a Salt Lake City, UT Airport media spokeswoman confirmed that at least one uniformed police officer was awaiting Stone at the gate…but she said it was at Stone’s request, for security.

We have to wonder whether she needed quite as much “security” before she got into the fight with the flight attendant.

[From The Style List]

If it was a different celebrity, I might have given the person the benefit of the doubt. Stewardesses are no angels, and I’ve been treated badly by a few. But when it’s Sharon Stone? Yeah, I’ll totally buy that she was probably screaming abuses at a stewardess, and that she was most likely detained by the police. She is crazy, after all.

Sharon Stone is shown out with her two of her three sons getting ice cream with a friend on 6/19/09. Credit: WENN.com

Barenaked Ladies singer Ed Robertson managed to walk away from a plane crash yesterday. According to People, Robertson and the plane’s three passengers didn’t have a scratch on them when their Cessna 206 float-plane crashed in the Ontario woods soon after take-off from a lake near Ottawa.

Ed Robertson was flying his plane Sunday afternoon when it went down… Robertson’s friend Gord Peel told The Belleville Intelligencer newspaper that the other passengers were Robertson’s wife, Natalie, and their friends Julie and Jeff Jones. Peel, who said he has known Robertson for about a decade, arrived on the scene shortly after the crash and found the four friends walking on a road, shaken but unharmed.

He said the plane stalled but Robertson managed to set it straight down into the trees with its nose resting on the ground. They had to get out through the windows but did not have a scratch, he said. “Everyone is fine and that is the important thing,” Adam Smith, the band’s manager, said Sunday night in an e-mail. “That’s all the comment we have at this time.”

Spokeswoman Julie Leroux said Monday that the Transportation Safety Board of Canada is assessing the accident scene to determine whether an investigation will be launched. Robertson is host of “Ed’s Up” on the Outdoor Life Network. The show documents his travels by plane. He received his pilot’s license in 2005 and is described on the OLN Web site as a “recreational pilot.” Episodes involve landing his Cessna on water near cities across North America.

[From CNN]

Well that’d be more than enough to make me a train traveler for life. It’s not exactly everyday that you hear about someone surviving a plane crash – certainly not walking away unharmed. It sounds like they were incredibly lucky – and probably going to appreciate driving around in a tour bus a heck of a lot more.

Here’s the Barenaked Ladies performing and signing their new CD “Snack Time” on May 10th at the Borders Books In Oak Brook, IL. Images thanks to PR Photos.