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Mewes "Rock"-ed by Lawsuit
Jay is getting in trouble for pulling a Silent Bob.
The usually motormouthed Jason Mewes, aka Kevin Smith's celluloid stoner sidekick in such flicks as Clerks, Dogma and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, has been sued by a producer for going mum about his heroin habit.
According to documents obtained by the Smoking Gun, producer Craig Veytia is accusing Mewes of committing a noochie no-no by reneging on a deal to be featured in a confessional documentary about his battles with sobriety.
The film, Rock Bottom, was to chronicle the actor's life from New Jersey nobody to cult-movie star, focusing on his heroin troubles, his drug-related arrest and his attempt to get clean. Veytia and his camera crew had been tailing Mewes since March 20 and had footage of Mewes using heroin and then experiencing withdrawal, along with clips from his court appearances and rehab sessions. The finished product had been slated to air on HBO this summer.
However, according to the Los Angeles Superior Court complaint, Mewes bailed on the project and refused to cooperate with Veytia, despite signing two deals back in March. Those agreements not only granted rights to his life story to the producer but also made Veytia his personal manager.
As a result, Veytia claims he's now forced to seek a court declaration giving him the legal right to "produce and exploit" the slacker star's story, including fictionalizing certain aspects of Mewes' life.
When he was still acting as Mewes' manager, Veytia, earlier this year, told the Asbury Park Press that the actor decided to do Rock Bottom after some friendly persuasion because he wanted "to help other people so they don't fall into the same trap as he did."
Mewes' rep, Gail Stanley, had no comment on the suit.
In his defense, Mewes wasn't exactly in the soundest of mindsets when he agreed to the junkumentary.
Not long after cinching the contracts with Veytia, Mewes turned himself in to authorities in the town of Freehold, New Jersey, and pleaded guilty to six counts of probation violation stemming a 1999 heroin conviction. Mewes had skipped out on court dates, crossed state lines without permission and failed to undergo court-mandated drug tests and counseling, resulting in a warrant for his arrest.
He was subsequently barred from leaving the state until he finished a rehab stint at Discovery House, a drug rehabilitation center based in nearby Marlboro, which he entered in early April. Once complete, the judge allowed Mewes to serve out the remainder of his probation (now extended to February 2005) in California, where Mewes now resides.
So, what does pal Kevin Smith think about Mewes trying to go cold turkey? According to the Website Platinum Celebs, the filmmaker says he's deeply concerned about his friend and not exactly psyched about the documentary.
"I'm all for Jay trying to put his life together," says Smith. "I've been taking a tough-love approach with Jay, telling him I wouldn't hang out with him or work with him until he cleaned up. If the idea of a camera following him around impedes his drug use, that's great. But, at the same time, it does seem kind of exploitative."
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