Contrary to what you may have heard, Mr. Blonde did not go berserk.
Michael Madsen was not hospitalized Monday on a 5150 hold—the situation Britney Spears found herself in when she was deemed a danger to herself or others after being wheeled off to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in January—as reported Wednesday by TMZ.com, a rep for the veteran character actor tells E! News.
"Madsen just got off a plane from overseas after a grueling work schedule. He was suffering from food poisoning and extreme exhaustion and basically collapsed," rep Liza Anderson said.
"He is resting now with his family by his side."
A rep for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department also told E! that the office had no record of deputies hauling Madsen away to the hospital after getting a worried call from his family, as TMZ previously reported.
"We don't have any info on it," the officer said. "Even if we did, we don't discuss medical issues."
Not that the idea of such a thing going down is entirely far-fetched.
Madsen was hospitalized in London in June after police, responding to a call about a disturbance, found him screaming at a female companion in his West End hotel room. After being forcibly restrained, Madsen was taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital, where he was treated for cuts and bruises. He was never arrested in connection with the incident.
But exhaustion sounds about right, too. According to Madsen's IMDb page, he has nearly 30 projects in the pipeline.