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Alcohol distorts and impairs thinking, allowing unfettered emotional outbursts not controlled by rational intellectual balance...vino veritas is not accurate....Proverbs says that "wine is a mocker...".

You cannot trust that what a man says when he is drunk is the real guage of his "true hidden" feelings when sober!

Humans are complicated creatures, get any of us drunk and there is no telling what might come out of us that we'll regret when sober...

And that is the key...regret, guilt, inhibitions, moral restraints; drunkeness inhibits those active moral centers in our higher brains.

Alcohol is a neurological depressant....not a truth serum!

Thanks Doc, but I have a lifetime of experience with drunks - family friends, & associates, so I'll go with personal experience vs. the nonsense of the PC crowd.

"You cannot trust that what a man says when he is drunk is the real guage of his "true hidden" feelings when sober!"

You are right, except that that statement is even more true of a sober person. By definition, "true hidden" feelings are just that - hidden - until a guy gets a snoot full, then he starts blabbering about all kinds of personal, hidden things. I've seen it too many times to count.

In any case, Mel G. is responsible for his own actions, drunk or sober. If he had killed someone in his stupor, how many would be so quick to forgive & forget.

I suspect this evil in MG will appear again, particularly if his apologies do not bring sufficient public redemption. After all, he has enough money to pretty much do or say as he pleases. Something akin to "drunk with power".