Crowe 'sorry' for phone-throwing incident
Crowe: pictured with wife Danielle who he had been trying to call
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Thursday, 09, Jun 2005 09:22
Russell Crowe has publicly apologised for his behaviour following a phone-throwing incident in a New York hotel.
The New Zealand-born actor, who will appear before a court in September over the incident, put it down to loneliness and frustration at being unable to call his wife.
He told the Late Show with David Letterman: "I'm extremely sorry for this whole incident and I regret everything that took place.
"The bottom line is I did something pretty stupid ... This is possibly the most shameful situation I've ever gotten myself in my life."
The Oscar-winning actor, who is in New York to promote his new film Cinderella Man, is alleged to have thrown a phone at a desk clerk at the Mercer Hotel where he was staying.
The incident occurred at around 0400 when Crowe was unable to call his wife Danielle back in Australia.
The 28-year-old hotel employee, Joshua Estrada, had to be treated in hospital for a cut below his eye.
Crowe told Letterman that he'd tried to apologise directly to Estrada, "but at the moment he's not answering his phone".
The actor, who has a reputation for hell raising, was charged with assault and possession of a weapon during a hearing at Manhattan criminal court.
He was bailed pending a court hearing on September 14, when he could be facing the prospect of several years in prison.