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Jason Bateman was arrested while wearing a “leopard outfit” in Monaco.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
Although he didn’t disclose when the arrest took place, Bateman said he was “drunk and disorderly.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
The actor has been sober for at least 20 years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Jason Bateman<\/a>‘s arrest story sounds like it could be turned into a movie.<\/p>\n The actor recalled being booked in Monaco during an undisclosed time on his Smartless <\/em><\/a>podcast Monday with cohosts Sean Hayes<\/a> and Will Arnett<\/a>, and their guest Timothy Olyphant<\/a>.<\/p>\n After Olyphant shared that he’s never been arrested, Bateman, 57, launched into his own tale of disorderly conduct overseas.<\/p>\n “It happened to me once,” Bateman shared of his first and only arrest. “I was arrested in Monaco for being drunk and disorderly in a nice little leopard outfit fresh from the casinos, all banged up on cheap champagne and a pocket full of chips. Just got rocked.”<\/p>\n Bateman has been sober for years, abstaining from alcohol and drugs except for marijuana. He told The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a> in February that his acting career was always more important than partying, and that shortly after booking Arrested Development<\/em> in 2003, <\/em>his bacchanalian days were over.<\/p>\n “Fortunately, I was living at a time without social media and camera phones, so I got away with a lot, but it was definitely close a few times,” Bateman told THR<\/em>.<\/p>\n He added, “I’ve got friends who had bottoms that were pretty chilling, but I was lucky enough to recognize, ‘This is probably as far as I should go if I still want to accomplish the things that I want to get to,'” he said. “I was conscious the whole time of wanting to get a lot of these boxes checked before I became a father and a guy with a career that I not only wanted but had a feeling I might be able to get it if I just got the right job.”<\/p>\n His wife, Amanda Anka<\/a>, also inspired Bateman to clean up his act.<\/p>\n