Accused Jeremy London Kidnapper Tells His Side of the Story

The man accused of kidnapping washed-up actor Jeremy London and forcing him to smoke dope would like you to know that Jeremy is crazy and most of what he told police about his horrifying June 10th experience is a lie.

London’s bizarre tale, in case you’ve forgotten, had the actor being abducted at gunpoint by a pair of men who he initially thought were trying to help him change a flat tire.  The men then made him drive around for hours in his own car smoking crack and buying booze for other people.  It later emerged that Jeremy’s wife Melissa was with him for the first part of the evening, but was dropped off by the “kidnappers” before the crack-ride from hell.

One man, Brandon Adams, was arrested for the incident.  He is currently sitting in jail on $500,000 bond while Jeremy runs around fending off the allegations of his family who say he is sick in the head and made the whole crack-ride story up.

Now, Adams is getting to tell his side of the story.  The alleged kidnapper confirmed to Radar Online in a jailhouse interview that Jeremy and Melissa’s version of the story is largely fabricated.  He says the actor’s participation in the joyride all around Palm Springs was consensual.  Furthermore, says Adams, no one in the car smoked crack – but they did drink, and Jeremy did take a bunch of Xanax and Ecstasy.

The strange night began for Adams at a convenience store.  “Me and my uncle were sitting outside the 7-Eleven trying to get someone to buy us a couple beers,” Adams began. “I didn’t know Jeremy was an actor. He and his wife were hanging outside the 7-Eleven acting really strange. He was pacing and sweating and he looked tweaked out. His wife was acting paranoid too.”

A police car happened to roll by at that moment, causing the jittery Londons to flip out and run into the store.  Adams says that, once the coast was clear, Jeremy and his wife re-emerged, hopped in their car and drove off with the flat.

That could’ve been the end of things for Adams, but a few minutes later, he, his uncle and a third man came across the Londons’ rental car parked in an alley, and offered them assistance with their flat.  “We helped them change it and asked if they could give us a ride home,” Adams recalled.  “And Jeremy said yes.”

Then, “As soon as we got in the car, Jeremy asked us if we could get him five Xanax and five Oxycontin. Melissa was asking for Xanax too. I told him I could hook him up but that I wanted a couple of beers. He agreed.”

This is the point of the story where Melissa claims she “got a bad feeling” about Adams and the other men, and asked to be taken home.  Jeremy, however, remained in the company of the men, who would later be – possibly falsely – characterized as his abductors.

Adams recounts what happened once Melissa was gone:

Jeremy wanted to drink, so we bought beer and some hard alcohol and we got fucked up.  Jeremy was just drinking beer but we were wasted. We went driving around my neighborhood, handing out beer to my friends and random people on the street. We were having a good time.

Then, Jeremy got angry and demanded the pills he’d been promised.  Says Adams:

I hadn’t been able to get any Xanax or Oxycontins up to that point, but I was finally able to get him three Ecstasy and three Xanax pills. He took all six pills at once. He was out of his mind high.

The party then stopped off at Adams’ residence, where the totally bombed Jeremy “hung out” with Adams and his wife and six kids.  In a version of events recounted by Melissa, Jeremy “escaped” this terrifying situation when one of the kidnappers turned good and drove him to his sister’s house.

In reality, says Adams, Jeremy stuck around – of his own free will – for much of the night.  Then says Adams, “I drove him back to his neighborhood and I dropped him off on the street. He ended up checking into a hotel at 2 AM and staying there.”

Adams’ big mistake was taking Jeremy’s car back to his residence, because the next day, police found it there and arrested him based on Jeremy’s wild accusations.

Mr. Adams doesn’t sound like he’s exactly a prize himself, but his version of the story has many fewer holes in it than London’s, which has tended to shift in its details since the original telling.  Plus, there’s the fact that London’s own family basically doesn’t believe a word he says.

So, I’m inclined to think Adams is telling the truth, and London and his wife are some weird psychotic lying drugged-out combo like Randy Quaid and his wacko spouse.  London needs to come clean now, go into rehab, and promise never to waste everyone’s time with his tall tales ever again.

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