Actor Christian Slater is in stitches…but not because of a funny script.
Reuters reports the actor required 20 stitches in the back of his head following a fight with his wife, Ryan Haddon, at the Hard Rock Hotel in Los Vegas.
On Tuesday, Las Vegas police said that Haddon allegedly threw a drinking glass at the back of Slater‘s head, which struck the actor behind the left ear. Haddon was arrested on a misdemeanor charge after the Monday incident, but Slater declined to press charges against his wife. Carla Alston, a spokeswoman for the Las Vegas police, said that because of his declination, it would be up to prosecutors to decide whether or not to pursue a case against Haddon.
Alston went on to say that while Slater‘s initial statement said that the glass had struck him during an argument with his wife, he later changed his story, insisting that the glass had actually slipped out of his wife’s hand as she meant to toss water on him during a playful dispute.
Alston says that this version of the story is not credible based on the nature of Slater‘s injury. The glass struck the back of his head with such force that it opened a gash deep enough to require 20 stitches, police said.
A spokesperson for the actor insisted that he required only nine stitches, however.
Slater himself declined to comment on the situation publicly. According to his publicist, the actor is on his way to Vancouver, British Columbia, to begin work on a film project this week.
The alleged domestic dispute was first reported by the syndicated TV show Access Hollywood.
Slater has had his own share of run-ins with the law. In 1989, he was brought up and convicted on drunken driving charges when he crashed his car into a telephone pole. In 1994, he was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York when an unloaded pistol was found in his baggage. Finally, in 1998, the actor spent 90 days in jail for striking his then girlfriend and biting a security officer in a drug- and alcohol-induced frenzy.
