Pretty tough to say something is untrue when the actor kept apologizing for being an a-hole

I had a blind in the past month or so about this A list mostly movie actor being an a-hole because he is off booze.

A tabloid ran with it and now his PR people are spinning a story saying it is all untrue.

Pretty tough to say something is untrue when the actor kept apologizing for being an a-hole because he had given up drinking.