Haley Joel Osment Charged With Drunk Driving and Marijuana Possession

August 23rd 2006 01:45 am

Haley The New Dork in Town

Prosecutors on Thursday charged Oscar-nominated actor Haley Joel Osment, who famously saw dead people in 1999 hit movie “The Sixth Sense,” with drunken driving and marijuana possession.

Osment, 18, faces up to six months in jail if convicted on the charges that arose after a car crash in suburban Los Angeles on July 20.

The actor suffered a broken rib and shoulder injury and was briefly hospitalized.

Prosecutors charged Osment with misdemeanor possession of marijuana while driving and with having a blood alcohol level higher than 0.08 percent, including a special allegation of having a level higher than 0.15 percent, said Deputy District Attorney Ed Green.

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Are we looking at another former child star spiralling downwards ala Macaulay Culkin?

Osment is set to be arraigned on September 19.

The actor shot to fame with his role as a young boy who could see dead people haunting the real world in “Sixth Sense,” which raked in $673 million at global box offices.

The role earned Osment an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor and made him a star. But since then, few of his movies have scored well with critics or at box offices. Prosecutors on Thursday charged Oscar-nominated actor
Haley Joel Osment, who famously saw dead people in 1999 hit movie “The Sixth Sense,” with drunken driving and marijuana possession.

Osment, 18, faces up to six months in jail if convicted on the charges that arose after a car crash in suburban Los Angeles on July 20.

The actor suffered a broken rib and shoulder injury and was briefly hospitalized.

Osment is set to be arraigned on September 19.

The actor shot to fame with his role as a young boy who could see dead people haunting the real world in “Sixth Sense,” which raked in $673 million at global box offices.

The role earned Osment an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor and made him a star. But since then, few of his movies have scored well with critics or at box offices.

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I wonder how’s he going to make it in showbiz. He really is growing out of his looks. His cuteness has transformed into sheer dorkiness. And I don’t mean it in a kind way. And his name sounds like a girl’s.

Osment saw dead people, which obviously affected him way into adulthood and poor Osment is now reduced to a drug user and an alcoholic. Sad…

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