Robert Downey Jr. was officially pardoned on Thursday, December 24, for his 1990s drug convictions.
California Gov. Jerry Brown
issued the pardon to Downey, 50, who served a total of two years and
eight months after being busted for possession of heroin, cocaine and an
unloaded gun in 1996, and subsequently violating his parole.
According to the Los Angeles Times, the governor’s proclamation reads, “By completion of his sentence and good conduct in the community of his residence since his release, Robert John Downey, Jr. has paid his debt to society and earned a full and unconditional pardon.”
In a 2010 interview with Playboy,
Downey said it felt like “a lifetime” since he did drugs. “I think of
myself as someone who has no desire, use for or conscious memory of that
life. And yet I don’t shut the door on it, and I don’t pretend it
didn’t happen,” he said.
The Golden
Globe winner is one of 91 people who previously served time for mostly
nonviolent crimes to be pardoned by Gov. Brown this Christmas Eve.
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