The Irish actor was seen drinking a can of strong cider as he walked in London yesterday (20.11.07) just hours after learning mum Geraldine, 50, had passed away in Ireland's Cork hospital.
The Irish actor was seen drinking a can of strong cider as he walked in London yesterday (20.11.07) just hours after learning mum Geraldine, 50, had passed away in Ireland's Cork hospital.
A source said: "Jonathan was very close to his mother. He's absolutely devastated. You can't blame him for having a drink at this time."
Geraldine single-handedly raised the 'Match Point' star after his father walked out on three-year-old Jonathan, his mother and his brother Alan, taking the star's two elder brothers with him.
She had previously told how he was born prematurely and was lucky to survive, saying: "Doctors said he'd die."
Geraldine's death marks a terrible week for Jonathan.
On Sunday (18.11.07), he was arrested after a drunken row with airline staff.
The 30-year-old actor - who plays British monarch King Henry VIII in hit TV costume drama 'The Tudors' - launched an angry tirade of abuse at one female worker when she told him he was "unfit to travel" at Ireland's Dublin Airport.
Jonathan - who was trying to board a British Midland flight to London after appearing on Irish TV show 'Tubridy Tonight' on Saturday (17.11.07) - repeatedly told staff: "I will get on this flight no matter what."
Police arrested the star at the airport and took him to the nearby Whitehall Garda station where he was charged under the Public Order Act with being drunk and disorderly and a breach of the peace.
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