Soap Star Arrested
Monday, October 22nd, 2007
According to Perez Hilton, soap opera star Nathaniel Marston was arrested after getting in to a fight in New York city this weekend. The star of One Life To Live actor was apparently under the influence of narcotics when he beat three people with a crate and broke one of their legs.
When the police arrived and attempted to arrest him, he began flailing his arms and kicking the officers. He was charged with two counts each of felony assault, reckless endangerment and criminal possession of a weapon as well as one count of resisting arrest
Marston was taken to Bellevue, the city mental hospital, where he was evaluated as an “emotionally disturbed person,” but was released on Sunday.
This is apparently not Marston’s first showing of anger issues. He was arrested in October 1999 on criminal mischief charges after he punched and damaged an ATM in New York City. Maybe it told him he was out of money?
There was also a blow-up on the set of the soap opera last week and people on the set stated he seemed to be an “emotional wreck.” He told a magazine in 2003 that he had anger problems in his childhood that continued into adult. He said that he would sit quiet in class as a child and “explode: boom! It was fierce and violent.”
For someone to attack people so violently, seemingly without provocation, there has to be seriously wrong. Hopefully now that this will be involved in the courts, Marston can get some help for whatever is ailing him. It appears that he may have a dangerous mix of mental illness and illegal drug use, which can lead to even more drastic consequences than what happened last weekend.
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