go off the deep end

“Moving to Scottsdale in 2008 I think saved my life,” he said, “And ... I’m 38, I’ve still never had a sip of alcohol, I’ve never done drugs, I’ve never, done anything — so I don’t mean in that sense of like ‘Oh, I’m gonna go off the deep end like so many child actors do.”

“People have problems, but you don’t expect them to go off the deep end like that,” Letarte said.

Her untimely death prompts a heartbroken Padraic to go off the deep end.

“It’s no f---ing wonder people go off the deep end. It’s no f---ing wonder people shave their head and get tattoos on their face or pee in buckets,” she said.

“What it’s taught me is that you don’t go into a parking lot, ever, at night. You don’t go to the bathroom in a movie theater. And anybody could go off the deep end.”