Gerard Depardieu on the plane to Dublin...

Tabnabs

Just cross your legs man!

French film actor Gerard Depardieu was caught short on a Paris to Dublin flight and chose not to bother going to the toilet before relieving himself, airline CityJet told AFP.

"I will only confirm that he, in effect, urinated in the plane," a spokeswoman for the Air France-KLM subsidiary said, confirming a report on Europe 1 radio, which interviewed a passenger who witnessed the incident.

According to the passenger, who was not named, the 62-year-old was visibly inebriated and tried to stand up before take-off, when passengers are asked to wear seatbelts, declaring: "I want to piss, I want to piss."

When a stewardess asked him to sit and wait 15 minutes until the jet took off and reached cruising altitude, he said he could not wait. "And there and then he stood up and did it on the floor," she told the French broadcaster.

"We could see he had been drinking. The stewardess was dumbfounded," she added. "No-one said anything. It all happened with courtesy. Mr Depardieu sat back down and the plane returned to the parking area to be cleaned."

The spokeswoman said the incident had taken place on Tuesday evening on board flight AF5010. She did not say whether the company intended to take further action against the popular French star.

According to a Paris Airports website, the Dublin route is served by an Avro RJ-85, a regional jet that can carry up to 111 passengers and is routinely equipped with onboard toilets both fore and aft.

Depardieu is perhaps the best known face in French cinema, having appeared in almost 200 films, and is known abroad as the star of the 1990 literary epic Cyrano de Bergerac and the US romantic comedy Green Card.

He is also a winemaker and in 1990 was convicted of drunk driving.

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BrianD

I'm surprised that airline staff would go into detail about the actions of a passenger. Not good form.

Going by Aer Aerann standards if the guy tried to stand up during take off he should have had the entire airport police force awaiting for him upon arrival. Urinating in public should mean that a SWAT team is present and tazer him. Lucky that he chose CityJet over Aer Arann.

In any case, airports and airlines give top priority to alcohol sales so they shouldn't be surprised when incidents like this happen.

When it says "Mr Depardieu sat back down and the plane returned to the parking area to be cleaned." Does this mean that the plane returned to the airport?

David086

What is with people taking out their "junk" on planes these days lol.

scholar007

"We could see he had been drinking. The stewardess was dumbfounded," she added. "No-one said anything. It all happened with courtesy. Mr Depardieu sat back down and the plane returned to the parking area to be cleaned."

What do they mean by It all happened with courtesy?

But, yeah its a good thing he didn't get his weapon out on an Aer Arann flight.

A320

I hoped they wiped his nose in it like a pup

ResearchWill

Ok so french man drunk pees all over a plane, its all so funny here have another movie you big nosed french man. Irish man drunk has a w%^k on a plane there are crys for his head, why is he not been charged, DPP decides not to bring charges. Well it seems if your an Italian you can ride underage call girls and still remain in position of authority, the french can pee where they like, and the Irish well we seem to get fu^%&d and pissed on. Maybe we have it wrong after all.

BrianD

Their seems to be some reports that he urinated into a bottle.

Papers saying today that the plane returned to the stand to be cleaned and took off 2 hours later. It seems it didn't get airborne al all.

Passenger was met by security but indication if he was allowed on the flight 2 hours later?

el tel

BrianD wrote: »

I'm surprised that airline staff would go into detail about the actions of a passenger. Not good form.

Going by Aer Aerann standards if the guy tried to stand up during take off he should have had the entire airport police force awaiting for him upon arrival. Urinating in public should mean that a SWAT team is present and tazer him. Lucky that he chose CityJet over Aer Arann.

In any case, airports and airlines give top priority to alcohol sales so they shouldn't be surprised when incidents like this happen.

When it says "Mr Depardieu sat back down and the plane returned to the parking area to be cleaned." Does this mean that the plane returned to the airport?

Did you actually read the passage in the OP?

roundymac

According to the BBC news web site he was not allowed back onto the plane.

scholar007

He really had some Gaul to piss in the aisleway on a plane.

BrianD

el tel wrote: »

Did you actually read the passage in the OP?

Yup, I did. What's up?

Wasn't clear from the article whether the plane actually took off or not.