Woody Harrelson and his friend Owen Wilson were hanging at The Other Room lounge in Venice, California, on March 3 when Woody went bezerk on two bouncers, throwing punches and starting a brawl when they would not let him walk out of a bar with two drinks in his hand.
While the Butterscotch Stallion looked on mortified, the Natural Born Killer drew first blood...
According to reports, the trouble began about 12:30 a.m., when Woody - holding two glasses of wine - exited the bar with Owen. A bouncer stepped in front of Woody and told him he couldn’t take the wine, but the actor ignored him. The bouncer then blocked Woody’s path with outsretched arms.
“Woody screamed: ‘Take your hands off me!’ as he threw wine on the bouncer and sucker-punched him,” said a source at the bar.
That started a full-scale brawl in the street, with a second bouncer joining in and wrestling Woody to the ground. Woody punched and scratched the bouncers and gouged a fingernail into one of their faces, just about the eye, said the bar source.
“Blood was streaming down the bouncer’s face, and Woody cut his hand on the broken glass on the sidewalk… Blood was all over the place.”
Two California Highway Patrol officers, who were writing a ticket across the street, raced over to stop the fight.
“Woody was still flaling away, and the officers ended up cuffing him and putting him in the back of a squad car while they tried to sort out the mess…”
Neither Woody nor the bouncer wanted to go to the hospital. Paramedics taped Woody’s cut hand. Amazingly, he wasn't arrested.
Owen, who went across the street when the fight erupted, kept apologizing afterwards, saying “I’m sorry I brought him.”
[From The National Enquirer print edition, March 19, 2007]
