"I've Been Kidnapped By a F–king Nazi", Haley Joel Osment Arrested For Public Intoxication & Cocaine Possession After Attempting to Board a Ski Lift With His Helmet on Backwards and No Skis
Consequence - Actor Haley Joel Osment was arrested at a California ski resort earlier this month and charged with public intoxication and possession of a controlled substance.
The Sixth Sense actor, 37, was taken into police custody on April 8th at the Mammoth Mountain resort in Mammoth Lakes, California. Police were unable to identify the substance carried by Osment and sent it to a lab for testing.
Prior to the arrest, as captured in video obtained by TMZ, Osment attempted to board a ski lift with his helmet on backward — and without skis or a snowboard. He was also seen arguing with ski resort employees who blocked him from getting on the lift, as well as with patrons who were waiting in line.
Despite the obvious correlation, I've never combined skiing and cocaine. But I gotta think it's a pretty great combo. I'd argue drinking goes with skiing as well as drinking goes with anything else in the world. I mean it's an overall bad idea. It's pretty much just drunk driving but without the seatbelt, airbags, and a 5-star safety rated carriage surrounding you for protection. But with drunk skiing, you're only sort of a risk to kill someone else with your negligence. But boy is it fun. It keeps you warm. You're less scared of committing to jumps. You'll duck into a blind tree path with zero reservations about where it may lead. It doesn't hurt as bad when you crash. And much like drunk driving, if when you do crash, you probably won't break any bones because your drunk brain won't react in time to brace for impact, so your body will just go limp as you somersault down the mountain at 35 mph. Honestly it's a pretty awesome rush. So considering cocaine is basically just a drunk enhancer, I'd imagine it would make skiing pretty awesome too.
But apparently the folks at Mammoth Mountain disagree. Just another classic example of guys not being allowed to have fun anymore. Seriously, Mammoth... You gotta allow your customers to let loose on the mountain every now and then. It's bad business to call the cops on a patron who is literally just vibing.
But nope. They couldn't just let Haley Joel be. Couldn't bare to let a guy have a few beers (liquid & nose) and ascend the mountain with no way down. They just had to call the "fucking Nazi's" on him (his words).
I know that video is pretty rough. Almost to the point where you don't want to laugh because watching a disheveled, kinda fat adult get dead-weight dragged into the back of a cop car is a little hard to watch. But before anyone gets all in their feelings and does the whole, "Damn, this is actually really sad" thing. This was probably for the best. It's very possible this was all a ploy by Haley Joel Osment to get himself a warm cot to sleep on for the night. Because he currently doesn't have a house. It burnt down in the LA wildfires.
TMZ - Sources familiar with the situation previously told us Haley's been going through it recently -- we're told he lost everything in the Altadena wildfire, and had issues with insurance … including a denied claim for a replacement home.
See. All's well that ends well. Haley Joel had a fun day on the slopes, and got a free place to sleep for the night. Well free at first. Very expensive later. I don't think a complimentary public defender is getting him out of this one. But again, look how happy he is to be there!
His face is so small. Also, I thought it was very rude of the police officers (not Nazi's) to refer to him as the child actor from the Sixth Sense. That's gotta be a kick in the dick to hear as a 37 year old man getting stuffed in the back of a cop car. I know that was probably his biggest role. But Haley Joel has been in stuff as an adult too. It's not like he's a completely washed up, out of work has been. He was in the movie Blink Twice. He's voiced many animated characters, including the keyblade wielder Sora in 12 renditions of the Kingdom Hearts video game series. He made three appearances on Jimmy Kimmel in 2024 alone. The man does a J.D. Vance that'll leave you in stitches.
I got your back Haley. You're more than the "I see dead people" kid from the Sixth Sense. You're a tremendous adult actor who will continue to get work. Kingdom Hearts is bound to make another game eventually. You'lll be fine. And for anybody disgusted with the language he chose to use, you'll be happy to know Haley issued a very classy, very heartfelt apology.
People - He is now issuing an apology for the "disgraceful language" he used while being arrested.
"I’m absolutely horrified by my behavior. Had I known I used this disgraceful language in the throes of a blackout, I would have spoken up sooner," Osment says in a statement shared with PEOPLE on Thursday, April 17. "The past few months of loss and displacement have broken me down to a very low emotional place."
Osment — who lost his home in the Altadena, Calif., home in the Eaton Fire in January — continued: "But that’s no excuse for using this disgusting word. From the bottom of my heart, I apologize to absolutely everyone that this hurts. What came out of my mouth was nonsensical garbage - I’ve let the Jewish community down and it devastates me. I don’t ask for anyone’s forgiveness, but I promise to atone for my terrible mistake."
Keep your chin up brother. And for your next home, maybe look for something somewhere you don't have to worry about your entire neighborhood going up in flames every time a homeless person smokes a cigarette.
P.S. Shoutout to Haley's sister Emily, who I just thought about for the first time in years. As Hannah Montana's seemingly more obtainable friend, she was always low-key one of my top childhood crushes.