New footage of Reese Witherspoon’s arrest for disorderly conduct has emerged, in which the actress’s drink-fueled ranting is seen to have upset her husband, Jim Toth, who had himself just been booked for a DUI.
The dash-cam video shows Reese and Jim sitting in the back of the police car discussing their predicament.
In a near-comical row, Jim appears to be trying to make his wife understand that she should have stayed in their vehicle while the police officer was attempting to get him to perform a field sobriety test.
“All you should have done is let me get arrested,” said Jim, to which Reese indignantly asks, “Arrested for WHAT?” Seemingly unable to process the reasons for her arrest, Reese tells her husband: “Wait.
I have threatened him [the officer]? And put him in a position that he feels vulnerable? Honestly. Come ON! Come on honey.”
Earlier in the footage, Reese is heard informing the officer that her arrest would make him famous.
“My name is Reese Witherspoon,” she declares. “You are arresting me for obstruction of justice. It will be on the national news. I just want you to know.”
On Thursday, three more videos were released on TMZ, showing Reese drunkenly slurring and screaming at a police officer in Atlanta, Georgia.
After repeated requests from the police officer and her husband to stay quiet, her antagonistic exchange with the police officer ended in her being handcuffed and charged.
In the video, an agitated Reese attempts to protest after husband Jim was handcuffed after failing a field sobriety test. The officer told the actress several times to sit down and stay in the car, much to her chagrin.
In the footage, Reese appears to be inebriated and tries to pull the ‘don’t you know who I am?’ card.
“Do you know my name sir?” she asks the policeman, who responds with a curt “Don’t need to know.”
“You don’t NEED to know my name?” an incredulous Reese asks. “You’re about to find out who I am.”
Clearly furious at being handcuffed, the actress begins to indignantly accuse the officer of harassment.
“I’m a U.S. citizen… I’m allowed to stand on American ground and ask any question I want to ask,” she screams.
“You’re harassing me as an American citizen. You better not arrest me.”
Reese’s husband, Jim Toth, was also arrested for DUI, but pleaded guilty and received no jail time, but must perform 40 hours of community service and attend an alcohol education programme.
Reese Witherspoon pleaded “no contest” to charges stemming from her disorderly conduct arrest two weeks ago.
The actress was ordered to pay a $213 fine on the charge of “physical obstruction of another,” according to TMZ who released an explosive video of the star’s arrest.
Hours before the footage was posted, Reese appeared on Good Morning America in her first interview since her arrest.
Speaking publicly for the first time about the incident, she said: “It was just one of those nights – we went out to dinner and had one too many glasses of wine. We thought we were OK to drive but we definitely were not. We are just so sorry this happened. We know better than that. It’s something that will absolutely never happen again. I had no idea what I was thinking that night. I saw him arrest my husband and I just panicked. I said all kinds of crazy things to the officer. I even told him I was pregnant. I am not pregnant!”
When asked what she said to her children about the incident, the actress told ABC:
“The worst part was having to speak to the kids. We are so embarrassed by it, but we just had to tell them that when you make a mistake, you have to take responsibility. We were honest with them.”