I realize a lot of people don’t buy into the new and improved Colin Farrell, but I’m all over him. The now-sober and still-sexy Irish star sat down for an intense interview on Irish TV, and OK Magazine (UK) has the details on the interview.

Colin claims that his son James saved his life, saying “I don’t know if I would be here if I hadn’t had him…He was a huge part of me going in and making certain changes in my life.” He reflects back on the years he spent drinking, doing drugs and bed-hopping with a simple admission: “I had a blast of a time. I went over to Los Angeles and it was handed to me on a plate, parties in the Playboy mansion and this and that and the other.”

But all of the Playboy bunnies in the world couldn’t fill the metaphorical hole in Colin’s heart. Colin went to rehab in 2005, and by all accounts has been clean and sober ever since. He says, “The negative aspect to all this good fortune was loneliness. I never figured it out… I just had a broken heart and was profoundly sad. I had all these wonderful things in my life and yet I found myself at this point.” Colin makes me swoon, he really does. I love him!

Hollywood superstar Colin Farrell has said he would be dead today if it wasn’t for his six-year-old son James.

In a revealing interview the In Bruges actor has also told how he has a “propensity for addiction” and struggled with his identity after coming out of rehab.

The 32-year-old star had James with model Kim Bordenave. The boy suffers from a nerve disorder.

Interviewed for a series on Irish TV, he said: “I don’t know if I would be here if I hadn’t had him (James).

“He was a huge part of me going in and making certain changes in my life.”

The Irish actor who first made his name in Bally­kissangel, said: “I had a blast of a time. I went over to Los Angeles and it was handed to me on a plate, parties in the Playboy mansion and this and that and the other.”

Eventually Farrell did bow to family pressure and went to a rehab clinic after he finished filming blockbuster Miami Vice in 2005.

“The negative aspect to all this good fortune was loneliness. I never figured it out.”

“I just had a broken heart and was profoundly sad. I had all these wonderful things in my life and yet I found myself at this point.”

[From OK Magazine-UK]

By several tabloid accounts, Colin is single now, having broken up with journalist Emma Forrest a few months ago. For a few days, there were rumors about Colin and Keira Knightley, but they didn’t seem to go anywhere, except for my wish to see the name-combination “Cholera”. Then, just after the Keira reports died down, there was a rumor circulating that I tend to believe - that Colin was trying something new with his life: celibacy. Since that report, he hasn’t been photographed with any women, and he’s been keeping a pretty low profile. Could it be that Colin is waiting for me?

Here’s Colin at the Golden Globes in January. Images thanks to WENN.com .