This is show biz. There is a story in Hollywood about how Clark Gable once killed a guy when he was drunk. A studio executive was made the fall guy and a deal was cut with a Judge for the exec to spend ten years in a minimum security joint to keep Gable on the job. This may be true; this may not be true. But no one in the film business I have ever spoken to had any trouble believing it.

The question is not did Clarkson hit someone. The question is how much money did his last picture make?