David Cassidy arrested for DUI. Calling on Danny Bonaduce (and keep Jo-Ann Geffen away)!
Former “Partridge Family” star and teen idol David Cassidy, 60, arrested on suspicion of DUI after he was observed weaving on and off the road a number of times by other motorists at about 8 pm. Cassidy told a trooper he’d had a glass of wine with lunch and a hydrocodone (opioid painkiller) about three hours before the arrest. The fact that Cassidy was “unsteady on his feet,” “swaying while standing,” registered a .14 per cent blood alcohol level on a breathalyzer and had a half-empty bottle of bourbon in his car suggests he forgot to mention the drinks he consumed between lunch and 8 pm (in fact, assuming he’d been drinking since noon and that he weighs about 160 pounds he appears to have omitted almost ten additional drinks). Cassidy is adamant he was not hammered and his rep, Jo-Ann Geffen, said he was “definitely not drunk” and “would never jeopardize anyone on the road…he’s never been arrested in his life before for anything.” That’s what enabling does: it lets people become 60-year-old drunks rather than 60-year-olds with 30 years of sobriety. Worse, it often leads to tragedy, which only uncompromising disenabling (the phrased coined in Drunks, Drugs & Debits: How to Recognize Addicts and Avoid Financial Abuse) can prevent. (Note: I know someone who knows him and his family very well. My source asserts the enabling of serially poor behaviors has been ongoing for at least four decades.) Memo to David: your behaviors haven’t been as outlandish and obvious as those of your Partridge family brother Danny Bonaduce. Keep it that way by getting sober, before it’s too late. Your mother would appreciate it.