Pierce turns back on son

Pierce Brosnan has turned his back on his adopted son because he refuses to kick his drug habit.

The James Bond star has repeatedly tried to help Christopher, 32, beat his cocaine and heroin addictions only to be disappointed time and again.

Now Brosnan has given up on the boy he raised from the age of eight, telling him to 'get busy living, or get busy dying'.

'Christopher is still very lost,' he told the magazine Playboy. 'Shockingly so. I know where he is, but he's having a hard life.

'I can only have strong faith and believe he will recover. He has tested everybody in this family but none more so than himself. He knows how to get out. He doesn't want to.

'It's painful because you shut down. You never completely cut them off, but I have cut Christopher off. I had to say, "Go. Get busy living, or get busy dying". He has my prayers.'

Brosnan, 52, adopted Christopher and his sister Charlotte after marrying their mother Cassandra Harris, who died of ovarian cancer in 1991.

Charlotte, 33, won her battle with drink and drugs. But Christopher continues to cause his father much heartache.

An aspiring film producer living in Brixton, South London, Christopher was fined £1,000 for drink-driving in 1996 then jailed for three months for the same offence the following year.

After his release, his hell-raising continued when he was banned from London nightclub Browns for brawling and then collapsed in a coma after overdosing on drugs.

Last year he was twice arrested for theft at the club Chinawhite, although charges were not pursued. And in June, he was held on suspicion of possessing heroin.

Criminal proceedings were later dropped but friends say the incident led Brosnan to offer him 'one last chance to get back on track'.