Haley Joel Osment heard on video hurling racist slur during arrest at ski resort

Yahoo

18-04-2025

Former child star Haley Joel Osment hurled a racist slur during his arrest for public intoxication at a California ski resort last week, according to bodycam video released Thursday.
An arresting officer reported Haley was acting belligerent and throwing Jewish epithets at police when he was taken into custody on April 8 at Mammoth Mountain, law enforcement sources told TMZ.
Bodycam footage later obtained by the outlet appears to back up those claims, showing Osment calling a cop the 'K' word, while also referring to him as a 'f—ing Nazi.'
Additional video shows the moment officers with the Mammoth Lakes Police Department discovered what they say was cocaine in Osment's possession.
The 37-year-old actor was formally charged on Thursday with disorderly conduct under the influence of alcohol and possession of cocaine, nine days after cops received a call reporting an 'intoxicated person' creating a disturbance on the slopes of Mammoth.
Separate video taken at the resort, also obtained by TMZ, shows the Oscar-nominated 'Sixth Sense' star causing a scene at a chair lift, where he can be seen with his helmet on backwards.
'I mean, the backwards helmet is a dead giveaway,' one onlooker says offscreen, while another suggests Osment 'had a little too much.'
Multiple people can be heard shouting for the actor to get out of the line, yelling that someone should call security.
Eventually, a crewmember who'd been standing beside Osment waves at him to follow her out of the area. The actor was then held by ski patrol staff until police arrived at the scene.
'He couldn't take care of himself,' one staff member told police, as heard in the bodycam clips. 'He went to the bar, ordered one drink, and was so intoxicated that he spilled it. And then he got cut off.'
The footage shows Osment later being escorted into the police station, where he reportedly spent the night before being released the next day, according to Us Weekly.
He's scheduled to be arraigned on July 7 in Mono County Superior Court.
Osment's arrest was not his first brush with the law. In 2018, authorities were called to a Las Vegas airport after Osment allegedly lashed out at American Airlines staff when he missed a flight.
In 2006, Osment was charged with DUI and possession of marijuana after driving his car into a mailbox. The then-18-year-old was sentenced to three years probation and ordered to 60 hours in an alcohol rehabilitation and education program, CBS News reported at the time.
Sources told TMZ on Thursday that Osment has been struggling in recent months after losing his home in the Southern California wildfires in January.