Christian Bale has leapt to the defense of swimmer Michael Phelps, who has come under fire after a photo surfaced in a British tabloid, showing the Olympian smoking out of a glass pipe.
During a phone interview with the “Kevin & Bean” morning radio program on Los Angeles’ KROQ 106.7 FM, which Bale used to apologize for his rant at “Terminator Salvation” Director of Photography Shane Hurlbut, the actor made a plea to the champion swimmer.
“Please, Michael Phelps, swim in the next Olympics,” Bale said. “This guy has a God given talent. So he’s smoked a bit of weed, plenty of our presidents have.”
Phelps has since apologized for acting “in a youthful and inappropriate way,” and Bale hopes the incident will not impede the swimmer’s career.
“Everybody makes mistakes. Bounce back from it,” Bale stated. “Do not waste that Godlike talent. Swim in the next Olympics, please.”
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