14 DAY TRIAL // Paparazzi can be most annoying at times but no one loses his cool with them like Sean Penn does. A flammable temper, it seems, runs in the family, because his 19-year-old son Hopper has just landed himself in hot waters.
Check out the video above to see his confrontation with a paparazzo outside a medical building in Beverly Hills, where he had accompanied his famous dad.
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In a statement to TMZ released hours after the altercation, Hopper says the photographer provoked his violent reaction, but that doesn’t excuse it.
“I was accosted by paparazzi and made to feel like an animal – threatened and under attack, but that does not condone my own actions,” he says.
“I deeply regret my choice of words,” Hopper adds.
Four years ago, Sean went nuclear on a photographer who kept getting in his face trying to get a photo of him. He was on probation until last year for that.