Sex Romps, Rehab & Booze! Inside 'Mini Me' Star Verne Troyer's Dark & Twisted Past
April 21 2018, Updated 10:18 p.m. ET
For such a little guy, Verne Troyer sure has found himself in some big trouble. Reports he was rushed to the hospital on a psychiatric hold today are just the latest in a history of problems for the womanizing Mini Me actor. Click through RadarOnline.com's gallery for an exclusive look into Troyer’s dark past.
Troyer, 49, shot to stardom thanks to the Austin Powers film franchise. But his sudden fame revealed a dark side, and in June 2002, the Globe reported that the diminutive actor got wasted and ran amok at the upscale Manhattan strip club Scores, guzzling booze and blatantly hitting on the girls.
“He was out of control,” an eyewitness told Globe. “Because of his size, Verne comes across as sexually unthreatening, like a cuddle toy. So the dancers were picking him up and hugging him. But he soon turned into a wriggling, leering sex machine.”
The non-stop drinking and partying continued. And in October 2002the National Enquirer reported Troyer nearly died of alcohol poisoning.
“He’d been abusing his body with his hard partying ways for some time, and, after one final bender, it all caught up with him,” a friend reflected.
At the time, friends of the actor told the Enquirer that he drank himself into a stupor following his breakup with Genevieve Gallen, the busty blonde who became his bride for two tumultuous months in 2004.
At the time, friends of the actor told the Enquirer that he drank himself into a stupor following his breakup with Genevieve Gallen, the busty blonde who became his bride for two tumultuous months in 2004.
Troyer sought treatment at Wavelengths rehab center in Malibu, Calif. But by February 2003, he was missing AA meetings, boozing and buying alcohol again
Don’t let his size fool you – The 2ft. 8 in. actor has been described as a sex addict and he’s freely admitted he’s indulged in no-holds-barred orgies — including an all-night, five-in-a-bed romp with three Playboy bunnies and a pal at the Playboy Mansion in 2005!
“I had the best night of my life and lived out most men’s fantasies,” Verne boasted to the Enquirer in 2017. “I didn’t just pleasure one Playboy bunny, I pleasured three! And it doesn’t get much better than that.”
By December 2006, it had all become too much for the pint-sized powerhouse, and according to the National Enquirer, he checked into another treatment center, this time near his Michigan hometown for 12 days.
But that sobriety didn’t last long, and in 2008, Troyer and then-girlfriend Ranae Shrider split up, after a sex tape of them leaked online.
“The tape shows Verne pleasuring me for 15 minutes which was amazing,” she told the Globe in 2008. “The next 45 minutes is us having sex.”
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After they broke up, Troyer — who suffers from a condition called cartilage-hair hypoplasia dwarfism — sued Shrider for $20 million, according to the National Enquirer, accusing her of throwing him to the ground,which she denied.
In 2009, RadarOnline.com learned that another ex-girlfriend, Yvette Monet, got had a temporary restraining order against Mini-Me when she told a court that she believed he owned a gun and that she was afraid for her life.
Troyer’s raunchy behavior surfaced again in 2015 when he and then girlfriend Brittney Powell were appearing on TV’s “Celebrity Wife Swap” — and he farted on former NFL star Hines Ward’s wife’s face!
It all leads up to no with Troyer reportedly being rushed to the hospital after a near fatal bout of alcohol poisoning.
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