Joaquin Phoenix checked into rehab after director Werner Herzog highlighted his reckless ways following a near-death car crash.The Joker star admits he was drinking heavily and partying following the success of his Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line 15 years ago, and beginning to lose control.“I wasn’t engaging with the world or myself in the way I wanted to,” he tells GQ. “I was being an idiot, running around, drinking, trying to screw people, going to stupid clubs.”Then, one night, the actor flipped his car during a drive around Los Angeles and was waiting on the side of the road, by the wreckage, about to light a cigarette, when German filmmaker Herzog intervened.“A German voice said, ‘Just relax’,” Phoenix recalls, explaining the director
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