Justin Theroux has been in New York for what feels like months! He’s actually in NYC for a reason – he’s filming The Girl on the Train, where he plays Tom – and please, no spoilers for those people who have not read the book. I saw some photos from the set the other day and I was like “Yow, I know what happens and even I feel weird about these pics being so spoiler-tastic.” So be careful! Anyway, Justin is in NYC and he decided to stop by Live with Kelly and Michael. They ended up talking about his (group) honeymoon to Bora Bora several months ago. Justin went scuba diving for the first time on the trip and he almost died!
Justin Theroux may be one of Hollywood’s resident tough guys, but after a sudden brush with death, the actor was left a bit shaken up. While appearing on Live with Kelly and Michael on Friday, the 44-year-old actor revealed that while on his lavish honeymoon getaway to Bora Bora with Jennifer Aniston, he almost died while scuba-diving.
Here’s how it all went down: After undergoing some training and diving about 10-feet down to see some coral and “pretty fish,” Theroux thought it would be a good group activity to take his friends on the next day. But when Theroux and his pals went out on the water the next day, they were accompanied by an instructor that spoke very little English.
“There was no communicating, we could not talk,” he explained. “I was telling him, ‘I’ve only done this once.'”
After diving down significantly deeper than Theroux had gone the day before, he became alarmed when he noticed his oxygen tank was running low. But when the Leftovers star tried to give the designated hand motions to inform his instructor that he needed to go up to the surface, the instructor told him to just keep swimming.
“I look down and I think ‘I’m really deep in the red,'” he said. When Theroux swam over to his instructor a second time, he finally realized the inherit danger the actor was in and quickly attached Theroux to his emergency respirator.
“Why are we doing that? Why are we doing an emergency when earth is up there?” questioned Theroux of the decision. But when the instructor switched respirators, water began rushing down his throat and he started “coughing and hacking underwater.”
Theroux admitted that as he started panicking his brain starting going to “this crazy place” and thinking, “Oh my god this is like some plot to kill me on my honeymoon.”
Eventually the instructor finally caved and the group started slowly making their way back to the surface of the water. And while Theroux is certainly glad he made it out alive, he definitely won’t be scuba-diving again anytime soon.
Does anyone remember that ‘80s movie Black Widow, with Debra Winger and Theresa Russell? I haven’t seen it in years, but I swear this situation was part of the plot of that movie. Anyway, I don’t think the French scuba instructor was lost in translation, I think the French guy was just actively bad at his job. Either that or he just wanted Justin Theroux to drown for some reason. And can you imagine if Justin had gotten into a fistfight with a Frenchman on his honeymoon? The tabloids would have had a field day! Anyway… just so you know! Justin almost DIED on his honeymoon.
Photos courtesy of Instagram, Fame/Flynet.
I find Justin’s “too cool for school” look so hilarious. He looks so try-hard.
He is try hard but I think he looks hot here
‘Justin Theroux may be one of Hollywood’s resident tough guys’
According to who exactly?
“tough guy” – that’s funny stuff.
That Eddie Munster receding hairline is a big negative for me. That is a scary story though and I have never wanted to go scuba diving for this very reason. So many things can go wrong and its too unnerving. I’ll stick to snorkeling 😉
Thank you @meow mix for saying what I’m sure all of us are thinking.
Meow
According to Kevin Huvane Ofcourse!
Haha, thank you. This made me laugh. He looks so arrogant. The equivalent of a mutton dressed as a lamb for men.
His body is so insane on the Leftovers. Orange, sinewy and inked. Dude def puts a lot of thought into his visage.
IKR? Who knew a six pack could have a six pack? The dude must be obsessed.
Related, link to story that tries to solve The Leftovers biggest mystery…
“Why is Theroux always so sweaty?”
http://www.tvguide.com/news/the-leftovers-justin-theroux-sweaty-gifs/
Glistening and orange, like a Thanskgiving turkey. 😂😂
Also I watched the gif at the end like 30 times.
http://cimg.tvgcdn.net/i/2015/11/24/be7ee24a-daae-4cff-861d-102e5c95fb0d/justintheroux5.gif
“We are talking Britney in a “I’m
A Slave 4 U” level sweaty. 😆😆
As for the your gif repeat-a-thon, here is the season 2 version…
http://www.out.com/sites/out.com/files/tumblr_nyach39zc71qiohboo1_500.gif
Mimi & Mia, the gifs are mesmerizing. In the one with the sweat pants, he’s really going for the Hamm-dong look., and I may have watched that on repeat for several minutes.
Is the show good? I’ve never watched.
I’m dyinggg mia girl. God that man’s body. “His glands are working harder than Scientology’s marketing department.” 😂
@zinjono The show is great! Took me a while to get into it, but now I’m 100% hooked.
zinjojo – I liked season 1 (mostly the later episodes) but season 2 is amazing.
It works on every level – writing, direction, and above all, the performances. Especially the actresses – Carrie Coon, Regina King and Ann Dowd – but also Christopher Eccleston and our favorite orange glistening turkey, Justin Theroux. Seriously, he’s killing it this season. Great acting.
Zin
You have to commit to it. It will drag along and be slow or unlikable, but it picks up.
Mia
Eccleston is still a top Doctor for me so it’s tough seeing him like this! Good actor though. The whole vast is kind of perfect.
If his skinny jeans hasn’t strangled him by now nothing will take him down by God.
Totally agree! And the hat is absurd. Just be bald already.
Ugh, he did all the wrong things in not clearing the respirator and then panicking, the worst being the panic. Understandable –shows how important it is to get good training. I’d like to hear the instructor’s side of this…
I dove in Bora Bora and the first dive wore too much weight, not realizing how heavy the steel tanks were, compared to aluminum. Maybe the gauges are different and that threw him off. My guess is that he had plenty of air, but freaked out. A little narc maybe? the dive master should have known how little experience he had though -sounds like he isn’t even certified.
Well if he was much deeper than 10 feet and he was using an OXYGEN tank, the gas that he was breathing would have been toxic anyway. I could be even more snotty and say that he was almost certainly shallow enough to swim to the surface with minimal effect, but the reality is that it sounds like he was woefully trained and poorly supervised. If he couldn’t clear a regulator he shouldn’t have been in open water, I had dozens of drills in water at 4oC before they let me in the sea; rough seas and low viz was a stroll in the park after that.
I don’t even dive and I could have told you that he had no business being out there. Who suggests a group dive when you’re not even certified? And how did his friends ( who presumably are certified) even think this was a good idea?
He clearly took one of those PADI resort dive classes where you get trained for a couple hours in a pool then can go down no deeper than 30 feet with an instructor while on your vacation. The first day they went 10 the next it was likely 30, if that. He probably was an air hog and ran out of air so fast that the instructor was giving him his back up reg to enable his friends who were also diving to be able to stay down longer because if one goes up usually they all have to. Also they might have been farther from the boat and it makes more sense to swim underwater on an octo than tred water at the top.
Ugh, this sounds like such a dramatic exaggeration.
Thank you! As a diver myself, this WHOLE THING is just ridiculous
I can’t believe the number of people who get “certified” on their honeymoons. Diving is serious business. I took weeks of courses to get certified and even then diving was nerve-wracking.
Yeah the number of things he did incorrectly is staggering. And yet here he is, safe, healthy, without a case of the bends. Because his dive instructor followed proper procedure and got him back safely.
Yes, I’m certified NAUI and he probably wasn’t even deep. He got water, gagged and panicked. It happens, but he didn’t almost die. He was in no danger of dying. Drama Queen.
Sounds like no training at all. I trained for 12 weeks in a real course. People who “train” on vacation are a real danger to themselves and others.
Agree with the posters who say scuba diving is no joke, and people who “train” on vacation in one or two dives are a real danger. I’m an advanced, well-trained PADI diver and even I almost drowned due to a dive buddy who swore he was “trained” (long story). Turned out he took one of those fast-track courses.
Justin is a victim of a badly-run system geared toward profit instead of safety.
It’s $80/ tank in Bora Bora, the guides don’t care as much because they get easy money. We got yelled at because they lost our paperwork from our travel agent. Sent to locations with low visibility. and the guide played with the coral, snapping it off to show us. There’s hardly any coral there due to storms and limited wildlife. There are pods of fish, sharks and rays but nothing like the screensaver coral you think it is. The French guides just go through the motions. We dove twice and everyone on the boat agreed it was crap.
Oh and they didn’t even check for diver certs. The other people on the boat said the same thing we offered and they shrugged it off.
I love the “I almost died” stories from tourists. It’s usually a mild mishap that any authentically badazz would never mention.
With everyone here who dives and knows how insane this sounds.
I’m cert diver and his scenerio sounds like a 1st time out with panic. The “almost died” is a fantastic rewritting of history from a perspective making things worse from their own doing, but having little intelligence of the situation to know the truth.
The whole point of proper training is so that in these sorts of situations, panic doesn’t take over and kill you. I suppose that goes for pretty much anything that is inherently dangerous. That said, these short courses are sold to “newbies” as a sort of baptism with very little risk and it’s not unusual for people to expect that the standards of the instructors, equipment safety etc are the same as what they could expect back home. Sadly, that’s often not the case but discovering that when you’re already in a panic inducing situation can be fatal. And if there are no facilities on hand for the possible consequences of a diving accident (ie: hyperbaric chamber) don’t even THINK of doing it, that’s already a sign of “if something happens, you’re screwed”.
In general, as I’m currently living in Asia, here you run into far too many situations where you realize they are “winging it” but only after it’s too late. I suppose that’s probably true for any number of “exotic” tourist destinations, but this part of the world beats anything I’ve seen elsewhere. Money is God and everything else is secondary.
I came here to say the same thing. It sounds like there was either an equipment issue or a poorly-run operation that didn’t do safety checks, but it also sounds like he had a classic case of underwater panic. I too would love to hear the instructors side. That instructor likely saved him from making a rapid ascent and getting the bends.
He screams of douche. I just can’t with him.
Agreed.
He’s growing on me and it’s starting to cause problems. My BF even mimics the “short little orange dude on the Leftovers”.
+10000
He just so comes across as so try-hard and fame hungry. His only person tidbits during interviews and regarding the private and state secret wedding that they didn’t want the public to know about.
Plus the general public still has memories of the bride that was murdered by her husband while scuba diving on their honeymoon. It’s like not needed to tell a joke about those things in public. Keep it for your Kimmel buddy off camera.
Get a hobby if you lack any interesting stories about yourself. Oh that’s right, few would care because it wouldn’t involve your famous wife.
Do we really consider Justin Theroux a Hollywood tough guy?
Only Jen stans – this man is so whipped that he has lost his identify and has become the one thing he claimed to hate – a fame hungry celeb.
The comments on his IG posts are hilarious: WE LOVE YOUR WIFE!!!!!!!
No
Only in his dreams.
No, the guy was born in DC, spends most of his time in NY, considers himself a Newyorker.
Tough guy my foot, they’re middle school guys tougher than this wuss.
But the beauty of New York is that it’s a city of immigrants drawn to this idea of opportunity and urban life, that’s what makes it a gorgeous mosaic. If only natives were allowed to be New Yorkers, the city would be all bankers at this point. He’s lived there his entire adult life, he loves the city more than he loves being in the same city as his wife-I think he can call himself a New Yorker.
No. Maybe a former drug addict, but he’s not tough.
If he’s standing next to a nine year old girl scout, yes.
funcakes FTW!
Bwahahahahaha!
Hilarious
Have you seen those Girl scouts? They’ll shake you down!
Trained NAUI 1989, most basic sport diver up to 100 feet. Our Instructor was about 65. He was Nordic originally and was an old deep diver and had literally thousands of hours underwater, under his belt. We had many classes until we were allowed into the swimming pool first. Before we were allowed to go into any form of open water, he made us all, at night, without lights do the following. He would take us one by one and throw our equipment into his pool. We had been thoroughly trained first theoretically. The pool was about 8 to 10 feet deep. The Instructor stood by wearing a special hi level underwater spotlight on his head in case of any trouble. Anyhow, in went all our stuff into the deep end. We then, in total darkness had to go into the pool and put on all our stuff underwater. If we came up before all our stuff was on, we would fail and have to retry. When we went into open, water, we went into 2 meters sand banks and the Instructor would come by and kick up sand in our faces, knowck off our tanks and flippers and yank off our tanks even. We had MONTHS of training. MONTHS. What is described is so off the mark—-ONE WEEK RESORT COURSES ARE RECIPES FOR PROBLEMS.
wow, that is intense for a basic cert. I assume the equipment was set up (bcd and octopus attached and tank turned on)? Did you see where he dropped it (or else how would you know where to look in the dark underwater?). That would give you confidence, sure. And good training makes such a difference in making the experience enjoyable. on a different note-I did a night dive in open water in Honduras–never again. So creepy.
I dove in Honduras! Where were you?
Guanaja! How about you? I think there’s more variety in Roatan and Utila but it was s fun trip. Not much beach though.
Aaaand this is why I am a snorkeler. Diving is a serious business, and something can always go wrong. People die on a regular basis while diving.
It sounds like JT didn’t even have the basic four-day PADI training! Quite frankly he’s lucky to be alive.
PennyLane, I’m hanging with you. I’m a happy snorkeler and plan to keep it that way.
I’ve met other folks while on vacation who had the short “tourist” scuba training and ended up with the bends in a recompression chamber. Really speaks to the need for full certification before you head to the islands for holiday.
They give out certs. It’s terrible.
I was BSAC trained, that took months too. Dive leader training was a hoot, one of our group got a broken nose when our trainer simulated a panic attack for us to deal with and he got too close. Even as part of out initial training we would do regular complete kit swaps underwater in a pool. We would have a challenge of swimming two lengths and arrive back wearing each other’s kit within a fixed time. We also did the thing where they threw the kit in with the tank value shut and we had to jump in and kit up before surfacing, that meant finding the kit, turning on the air and clearing the regulator blind, before putting on and clearing your mask. I know this all sounds silly, but it is drills like this that stop you panicing when things go wrong. What I learned was to never go in the water without a spare mask, an independent air supply and numerous knives attached about my person. I never relied on anyone else, but if they were around to help that was nice.
That’s my experience exactly! These half-day classes at resorts are ridiculous. The dive master should never have allowed him on that deeper dive.
Wait – didn’t Jen stans claim this couple is so private? So how come they are revealing things about their wedding and honeymoon while promoting stuff?
Stop being a drama queen Justin – it’s your fault that you didn’t listen to the instructor. Hopefully you didn’t get that poor instructor fired they way your wife got a journalist fired for asking a question she couldn’t answer.
PS: I find it quite distasteful that Justin is talking about a near death experience especially since a woman did die of drugs and alcohol on their group honeymoon..
Yeah! You’d think he’d make mention of that.
Meanwhile, someone actually did die on his honeymoon… but pooooooooooorrrr Justin.
The woman who died was not part of their honeymoon group. They did not know her. She was there as a guest of her boss. Jen & Justin had already left when this happened.
Well she died three days after they left–Joel Silver stayed a few more days. But yea–agree. She was only there because Joel Silver had been invited. I’m not saying they should blame themselves, etc……but it’d be nice not to tell stories about almost drowning when someone that they did know DID drown during the same trip.
I agree. It’s really bizarrely self-centered of him to share this story. He seems to be so very attention hungry.
RIP Carmel Musgrove
I would not going around making jokes about drowning, when a woman actually drowned on his honeymoon trip. Very insensitive to the lady’s family.
Jennifer picked a fameho, guess she did not know he would love the limelight this much, the guy is thirsty. Birds of feathers.
This was the first thing that came to my mind too. Very thoughtless.
I don’t think he’s a good choice to play Tom. It’s been a while since I read the book, but I thought Tom was more of a clean cut, preppy type
Wow! Poor guy.
This is in such bad taste considering what happened to Joel Silver’s guest….and Joel was there on the invitation of Jen and Justin. I also can’t help but find the situation surrounding Joel’s assistant’s death sketchy as hell, especially considering Joel’s reputation. Sure, they may not have been there that day but they left two days before it happened.
I actually think Justin and Jen make a cute couple and I don’t mind Jen at all…so I’m not hating for no reason or because I don’t like them.
Pffft, as we all know, assistants aren’t people! A celebrity near-death is way more important. After all, assistants are just tools to be used, like the vacuum cleaner. If it goes bad, get a replacement part.
Some people in Hollywood really do think like that. Ages ago, I used to work in costuming. Boy, was that ever an eye-opening experience!
I can only imagine what it’s like around HW, KatyD. I’ve always worked in corporate and the attitude many senior managers exuded was disturbing, to say the least.
This. Theroux’s story sounds like an interesting non-gossipy PR-cleared honeymoon anecdote if one isn’t aware of the death of Carmel Musgrove (yes, I did have to look that up but I didn’t want to refer to her as ‘the dead woman’). I have no problem believing Aniston & Theroux didn’t know Musgrove personally but like Div I find Silver himself super-sketchy.
Not referring to her divorce coverage with the following comment – but I’ve always found Aniston incredibly tone-deaf regarding almost everything. Her association with certain people like Silver and the Girls Gone Wild dude as well as her comments about Mexico and the tendency to overuse “beautiful” “gorgeous” and “celebrate” bum me out a bit. Imagine raking in all that Friends $$$ and not taking advantage of the freedom to self-educate that it can bring.
And yes, I realize I’m a crazyperson for suggesting million-dollar stars should go to night school.
Arrested development. I think she’s just not that interested in the world. It’s like she stopped growing in any way at all at 30 years old.
Douche Canoe. That is all.
What is he promoting exactly; and why is he doing so many interviews. I don’t get it. Outside of him and Liz where are the other cast members. I don’t see them being interviewed all the time.
He is a Poser (Maggie) big time and he is Thirsty for IT. He wants the attention and he loves being in the spotlight. A far cry from the guy that said he was so anti Hollywood. Well here you go.
Is it odd that until he was dating JA I had no idea who he was? I saw American Psycho years ago but Justin’s face just didn’t stick with me. I watched it again a few months ago and went, holy crap, that’s him. He’s like the Silence in Doctor Who for me. I acknowledge him when I see him and as soon as I turn away, I forget he exists.
As for the drowning thing, someone did die on that trip you a$$hat. Have some respect.
Justin is hot in The Leftovers maybe not so much in real life, but on the show he really is amazing. And just because I am in a mood Id say he is even hotter than Brad Pitt on the show. Wam bam than you mam.
I think he is pretty good on the Leftovers too. His real life stuff is annoying, like wearing black shorts as swim trunks, but ignoring tabloid stuff, he is a pretty decent actor.
I’m blown away by his acting on the Leftovers, true story. And that he looks like a perfectly glazed Thanksgiving turkey.
I can’t with the hot comment – he has super short legs and his hair looks like he uses shoe polish for hair dye. He’s not a bad looking dude in some ways, but hot he is not.
Judging by just his pics I would never consider him hot. But he really is hot in the leftovers, that’s how good his acting skills are in the show!
Can you Jen Hens give BP up? Constantly comparing him to Justin after over a decade! Her fans refuse to move on.
Haha I actually would not consider myself a Jen hen. I like Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Anisiton both! Shocking I know but it is possible to like both 🙂
@Franny Days, who wrote: “Justin is hot in The Leftovers maybe not so much in real life, but on the show he really is amazing. And just because I am in a mood Id say he is even hotter than Brad Pitt on the show. Wam bam than you mam.”
And … “Haha I actually would not consider myself a Jen hen. I like Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Anisiton both! Shocking I know but it is possible to like both.”
Right. But of all the men, and hot celebrities, in the world why would Justin have to be “even hotter than Brad Pitt” when talking about Jennifer Aniston’s new husband?”
Yeah, he’s flat out mesmerizing on the show. I almost didn’t give it a chance, because I didn’t think I’d be able to enjoy a show based around “JA’s sleazy boyfriend”, but it doesn’t even click with me that they’re the same person.
yeah, I’m not a fan of his metro male hipster everyday styling, but he looks fantastic styled for his Leftovers and TGOTT characters. Very different.
He really is. I never felt anything more than mild amusement towards him in still shots. Then I saw The Leftovers and yeah…there is something undeniably sexy about him. I think it’s his voice..very hot voice IMO..
LOL such a drama queen.
The same thing happened to us in Bora Bora, by husbands regulator was leaking and the French guide didn’t care he kept swimming. 10 seconds later I turn around and due to visibility we lost my husband. I got the attention of the guide again and he shrugged it off. I started freaking out and almost bolted to the surface (a big no-no in diving) but my mind was in fight or flight mode.
What happened KB? Is your husband ok? Sounds like that movie Open Water, where the couple gets separated from the dive group then left in the ocean all night (shivers).
I find it weird that he’s talking about this when a friend of his did actually die on his honeymoon.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/jennifer-anistons-honeymoon-ruined-death-6862877
Aniston was already back in LA when this happened. He didn’t even know her. Nice try though.
@Maggie, who wrote: “Aniston was already back in LA when this happened. He didn’t even know her. Nice try though.”
He ‘did’ know her. She was the companion of one of the friends Mr. and Mrs. Justin Theroux invited along on their Honeymoon. They all flew to Bora Bora together on a private plane, so if nothing else they spent time together during the long flight to the South Pacific island. I would assume that a newly wed couple wouldn’t invite a group of friends along on their Honeymoon without sharing at least ‘one’ dinner, lunch, or cocktail hour with the group; which included the young woman who drowned. Does it really matter that she drowned 2-days after Mr. and Mrs. Justin Theroux left Bora Bora?