I took a sip and went to the toilet and threw up and said: 'That's it'.
I went: 'Who is this? What's happened to you?' I actually went to the pub and thought well, I'll have a beer, and sit and contemplate this, and I just couldn't drink it. I didn't recognise my face, and I didn't recognise my soul. I woke up the next morning and looked in the mirror and didn't recognise myself. She just lost her mind and the other sister was freaking out and crying and saying, 'I don't know what's wrong with her' and I remember thinking: 'How many of these crazy situations do I have to get into? This is not who I am or where I should be'. "I was in Camden," he says, "and I had a crazy experience with these two sisters whom I was friends with from Glasgow, and we'd been out one night, and one of the sisters just went nuts. "I wanted to be part of that romance or that fantasy or be that warrior or that struggling soul who finally makes it good." Jobless, he decided to come to London in the hope of becoming an actor. And he drank through his first job as a trainee civil lawyer in Edinburgh until he was fired, a week before he was due to qualify. He once woke up in Paris, miles from where he'd been at a party, covered in gashes and blood. He would smash bottles over his own head. Their eventual reunion, he says, when his father simply turned up one day, "stirred up a shit storm in me" and when Edward, a bookmaker, died a couple of years later, Gerard went off the rails and took to drink.Ī law student at Glasgow University at the time, Butler drank his way though his degree. I was the youngest and would always say to my mum: 'Just tell me you love me more' and she'd always say: 'I love you all the same' and I'd say: 'I know you have to say that but, just admit it, you love me more'." "It made me very dependent on my mother, in a good way, as I do have an amazing mother… But I always had this terror about losing her. Eighteen months later, the marriage broke down, so Margaret returned to Paisley to bring up the three children – she took classes to teach business studies – and Gerard did not see his father again for 14 years. His parents, Edward and Margaret, who moved from Paisley, Scotland to Montreal, Canada, when Gerard was six months old. Butler gave the interview to promote his new film, 'Olympus Has Fallen', the Die Hard-style siege fantasy set in the White House.
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