Depardieu cuts off contact with wayward son

French film star Gerard Depardieu says he has cut off all contact with his troubled actor son Guillaume who was convicted this week of threatening a man with a gun.

“He’s a real poet who touches me enormously, but who is very difficult, incorrigible,” Depardieu said of his 32-year-old son.

“At the moment, we have no ties. I cut things off because I no longer want to be the wall, or the trash bin where one dumps anything one wants,” Depardieu told Paris Match magazine.

“He has tried to contact me but I don’t reply because I think that it’s better for his mental health,” he added. ”We’ll see.”

Guillaume was given a suspended prison sentence this week for firing a gun after a man mocked his clothes in a bar.

Guillaume starred with his father in the 1991 film All the Mornings of the World.

He had his right leg amputated in June to end years of pain from a bacterial infection that followed a motorcycle accident in 1996.