Wouldn’t it be great to be famous? Then you could smoke pot in public and no one would say boo. Even when you’re already totally washed up and a national joke.
At least, that’s what happened when tennis and tantrum-throwing legend John McEnroe reportedly lit up while out to dinner with friends:
Tennis ace John McEnroe and rocker wife Patty Smyth raised eyebrows during a dinner hosted by Vito Schnabel for the “Happy Endings” exhibit at the W Hotel in Miami. The couple surprised diners, including artist Terence Koh, actor Stephen Dorff and Jann Wenner’s son Theo Wenner, by passing around what looked like a spliff during a discussion on marijuana reform. “They were talking about grass reforms and the next thing you know they were lighting up,” laughs an attendee. “No one seemed to mind, though.”
And I know pot is not on the same level as crack cocaine, but do you think he feels even a twinge of hypocritical guilt for making ex-wife Tatum O’Neal undergo drug tests before she was allowed to see their kids after their divorce? Or as Tatum put it to Dateline NBC’s Stone Phillips in 2004:
Phillips: “Do you blame John McEnroe for taking the precautions that he did?”
O’Neal: “Well, no.”
Phillips: “I mean wanting supervised visits, wanting drug tests?”
O’Neal: “No. Not at all. Not at all.”
Phillips: “So where’s the beef with him?”
O’Neal: “I don’t have a beef with him on the testing and stuff. I have a beef with him on the way he’s treated me. To go through what I’ve gone through, Stone, in my life, and then to have another person as volatile and as strong as McEnroe say to me, ‘You suck. You’re a has-been. You’re nothing. You mean nothing, Tatum. You’ll never make it. Without me, you’re nothing, and if you think you’re ever, you know, forget the abusive drugs, if you think you’re ever going to get these kids, you know, you can never get them. You’ll never see them.’ What do I have to live for in my life? I’m worthless.”
It’s no newsflash that McEnroe is a huge d-bag, but a reminder never hurts.
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Assemble your own joke time! Just add… Happy Endings, hotel, hosted by “Vito” and feel free to throw a Stephen Dorff (whoever that is) on golf gag in there.
Newsflash to John: just because you talk about drug reform over dinner doesn’t mean lighting up a doobie in public is, you know, legal.
Hmm. John sure can pick ‘em, when it comes to “has-been”s. I mean, there’s Tatum O’Neal, there’s Patty “Shootin’ at the walls of heartache, BANG BANG” Smyth, and there’s that balding douchenozzle in the mirror. It’s like a “Charles in Charge” convention or something.
OK, there’s lighting up a spliff, and then there’s doing a Tatum O’Neal level of heroin and cocaine. As much as I can’t stand McEnroe for this arrogant scofflaw action, there’s really no damning evidence that comes from anything a drug-addled fame whore has to say about him. News flash, once you’ve reached the 20 year mark in the lifetime drug binge that is your existence, you officially have lost the right to cry foul about losing your kids, even to a guy who lights up in public.
I saw Patty Smyth in concert this summer with Scandal and it was great. True, she is a has been, but for the 80’s lover in me, I enjoyed it.
So let me get this straight-
Tatum watched a grown man yell himself into a hypoxic coma over a little yellow ball
And thought to herself Hoo-yeah! That there’s a whole bunch’a nurturing husband material!
Minnow, that made me laugh and laugh.
I have nothing to say about John McEnroe. I deleted him from my consciousness years ago. Just not worth the neurons, you know?
their kid found a syringe on a visit with mom. that would def warrant (sp?) a mandatory drug test and supervised visit (well, depending on the state) and a J is a far cry from hard drugs, legal or non.
He should have known better than to smoke up in public. Though many are for the legalization of weed, there are even more who are against it. Like McEnroe. (Or so he says he is.)
-Denise
I’m a pot smoking hypocrite too, Johnny Mac. I also berate and belittle women to compound my own inadequacy.