Divorce Almost Drove Bill Murray To Skydive Without Parachute

To promote his new movie, City Of Ember, Bill Murray has given one of those “after the rain” interviews to the Associated Press, where he talks about his divorce from Jennifer Butler Murray. Butler Murray, his wife of 11 years, accused the comedian of abuse, as well as sex and drug addiction—claims Murray has yet to deny. While he has visitation rights with their four children, Murray is still rattled by the experience. “It’s like your faith in people is destroyed because the person you trusted the most you can no longer trust at all…the person you know isn’t there anymore.” Who cheated on who, again?

Surprisingly, for a guy accused of hitting his wife and living in an alcoholic haze, Murray says his lowest moment came when someone offered him the chance to skydive at an air show. “I didn’t even care if there was a parachute. Of course, by the time I got there I had had a few good days and I thought, ‘What am I doing?’”

That’s bad news for whoever had “Bill Murray jumps out of plane without parachute” in their celebrity death pool, but good news for comedy fans, as Murray has decided to come out of his recent semi-retirement. “I want to work. I want to get going. I want to do a few things at once. I really want to connect with other people that are going that way and ‘Let’s go’… I want to bounce off like a pinball. Like a pinball, I want to bounce off bumpers that are positive. I want to bounce off people that are positive and hope that’ll make me more positive and give me momentum.” He’s even looking forward to Ghostbusters III! “It’s promising…it’s never been promising before.”

Whatever keeps you away from air shows, Bill.

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