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Details on Hugh's 'prostitute' episode!

None | ByAsian News International, London
Mar 27, 2006 07:38 PM IST

Nine Months director Chris Columbus has finally broken his 11-year long silence over Hugh Grant's infamous sex scandal.

Nine Months director Chris Columbus has finally broken his 11-year long silence over Hugh Grant's infamous sex scandal, with a prostitute Divine Brown, claiming the actor's arrest "hurt" his film's box office takings.

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The Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets director had big hopes for the 1995 romantic comedy Nine Months, which was released a year after Grant leaped to international fame in Four Weddings and a Funeral.

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However only a month before the film's release, Grant and Brown were arrested for indulging in a sex act near Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood on 27 June 1995.

The English actor was fined and put on probation after admitting lewd conduct.

"I also felt it hurt the film significantly. I have waited 10 years to tell this story. I have never spoken out because initially I was so shocked at what Hugh had done. I also tried to protect him, so I made light of it. But he has said so many things since, I want to finally set the record straight," Columbus was quoted by Contactmusic, as saying.

Columbus escorted Grant to his hotel room the night before his arrest and was stunned by the events that followed only hours later.

"We had a press conference the following morning. He had not been drinking but said he was tired and wanted to read a new script. I said. 'Please make sure you get a good night's sleep because we have a big day tomorrow.'

The next thing I know, he's been arrested. "I have never experienced anything like that in my career. By any standards, it was bizarre," he added.

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