Overview
- Bateman told listeners on his SmartLess podcast that he was once arrested in Monaco for being “drunk and disorderly” while wearing a “nice little leopard outfit,” without giving a date for the incident.
- He says negotiations with his wife Amanda Anka around their 2001 marriage led him to quit alcohol and hard drugs, a change he describes as lasting decades.
- Bateman uses the term “California sober” to describe his current habits, meaning he avoids alcohol and cocaine but still consumes marijuana.
- He reflected that making mistakes before the age of social media let him avoid lasting public fallout from his partying days.
- The story is based on Bateman’s first-person remarks on his podcast and past interviews, and it offers personal context about how family and fatherhood reshaped his life while not introducing any new legal or dating details.