A lot of articles have mentioned Callums drinking problem. What are the details?
Callum in the mid-80’s It is a topic that doesn’t escape the press, as it is a large and integral part of Callum’s life. He began drinking when he was in his mid-teens (“When I was seventeen, I drank a 26-ounce bottle of vodka in half an hour and went into convulsions. I ended up in hospital.” (Saturday Magazine, March 1998) Despite that near fatal experience, Callum continued his self-destructive behavior. For Callum, drinking had become of way of dulling pain, of speaking his mind, but it also ate up an incredible chunk of his life, which has been cited at a decade. He would ‘dry out’ for periods while acting, but afterwards, would slide back into the habit. In the summer of 1993, a period he has called the ‘Christ Year'(Ottawa Citizen, 29 October 1996), his life turned around after a dramatic event. He went into a rough Vancouver bar, and, admittedly, ticked off a construction worker. He ‘flipped the bird’ to the construction worker, who punched his fist through a plate glass window
It is a topic that doesn’t escape the press, as it is a large and integral part of Callum’s life. He began drinking when he was in his mid-teens (“When I was seventeen, I drank a 26-ounce bottle of vodka in half an hour and went into convulsions. I ended up in hospital.” (Saturday Magazine, March 1998) Despite that near fatal experience, Callum continued his self-destructive behavior. For Callum, drinking had become of way of dulling pain, of speaking his mind, but it also ate up an incredible chunk of his life, which has been cited at a decade. He would ‘dry out’ for periods while acting, but afterwards, would slide back into the habit. In the summer of 1993, a period he has called the ‘Christ Year'(Ottawa Citizen, 29 October 1996), his life turned around after a dramatic event. He went into a rough Vancouver bar, and, admittedly, ticked off a construction worker. He ‘flipped the bird’ to the construction worker, who punched his fist through a plate glass window, and drove a shard of
