“I just felt I needed time off and I didn’t need to go to awards ceremonies. You can get slightly waylaid as an actor doing that sort of thing and I’m never that comfortable at them anyway.”   “I live an incredibly low-key life. I think people would like to think I’m a hell of a lot naughtier than I am actually. I am actually quite a boring guy.

“I spent the last week and a half playing bloody golf. Me, Jonathan Rhys Meyers! If anyone saw me in those stupid golf clothes on the golf course, there would have been a different story written!”

…..putting to rest the rumours that he was in rehab and explaining his ‘absence’