This was 10 years ago. Anyone know what happened to him? Mental illness, I’m guessing.
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Bryan Travis Smith was friends with Julia Roberts, used to live with Drew Barrymore — and he was married to “Charmed” and “Pretty Little Liars” actress Holly Marie Combs — but now he’s homeless on the streets of New York.
Smith, 47, who had parts in “Bugsy” and “Boxing Helena,” recently wrote on Instagram: “I’m a goldfish banging my head on the glass until someone notices. I’m homeless, that doesn’t mean I’m going to stop eating Eggs Benedict.”
Richard Dupont, the Andy Warhol protégé, was close to Smith in the early ’90s.
“It’s so sad. Everyone was always trying to help him. But he couldn’t cope with his demons,” Dupont told me. “Annette Bening tried to help him.”
Smith was hired in 1992 by director Peter Bogdanovich to star in “The Thing Called Love” with Dermot Mulroney and Sandra Bullock, but he missed a table reading.
“It would have been his big break. Instead, River Phoenix got the job,” Dupont said.
Until eight months ago, Smith was tweeting as @homelessbryan, but then he stopped.
Combs, who divorced Smith in 1997, lives in Burbank with three sons from her second marriage.