Soap star Tyler Christopher was arrested at Hollywood Burbank Airport on Friday on suspicion of public intoxication – his second such arrest since 2019.
Christopher, 50, was sleeping on the floor in Terminal A near American Airlines and woke up when officers arrived, according to the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority Police Department.
The ‘General Hospital’ and ‘Days of Our Lives’ star told them he missed his flight and allegedly “exhibited objective signs and symptoms of alcohol intoxication and was unable to take care of himself,” said Burbank police spokesman Sgt. Brent Fekety said in an email to The Times on Wednesday.
Law enforcement received the report of an intoxicated man at the airport around 8:30 p.m. Friday and arrested the Sherman Oaks resident at 10:40 p.m., according to the arrest log released by the police department.
The veteran actor was convicted on suspicion of public intoxication, a misdemeanor, and his bond was set at $250. He “cited,” Fekety said, meaning he received a citation and was due in court at a later date.
Representatives for the actor did not immediately respond to requests for comment from The Times on Wednesday.
Christopher was also arrested in Indiana in 2019 after falling asleep in the back of an Uber, People reported. He pleaded guilty to two counts of public intoxication at the time, and a judge denied a law enforcement request to sentence him to an alcohol treatment program.
Between 1996 and 2016, the Daytime Emmy Award winner played Prince Nikolas Cassadine and his lookalike Connor Bishop on and off during several stints on ABC’s daytime drama “General Hospital.” In 2017, he briefly joined the cast of NBC’s daytime soap “Days of Our Lives”, in which he played Stefan DiMera until 2019. He was replaced by Brandon Barash on the Salem soap opera, which moved to to the network’s streaming service, Peacock, last year.
This story originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times.