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Inside Colin Farrell’s rise to fame – Boyzone audition, close bond with sister, attempted murder arrest and son’s rare disorder

Colin Farrell is one of the most successful actors of the past few decades - but who is his sister? And why was he once arrested for attempted murder?

Colin told Yahoo: “So I was on a dance floor in Dublin and I was 17, in leather trousers and a rubber T-shirt – I’ll spare no embarrassing details – when Louis Walsh came up to me and said, ‘I’m forming a band, they’re going to be huge, do you want to be in it?’ Meanwhile, in 2024, Louis confirmed the story was true, revealing on Celebrity Big Brother: “I know him [Colin] very well as he auditioned for Boyzone and he told me he wanted to be an actor, I knew him from Dublin. I saw a photo-fit of the guy that actually did the crime and it looked remarkably like me and for a second I – because I had had a blackout that night – I wondered, could I have done such a thing?” he recalled on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.

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