Colin told Access Hollywood how he and the Dame met – and grew close in the latter part of her life.

“How did we become friends? You know, the old story of boy meets girl, and boy pesters girl with too many phone calls at inappropriate hours of the night,” Colin told Access Hollywood at CinemaCon 2011 in Las Vegas on Tuesday, recalling his memories of meeting the two-time Oscar winner, who died last week at the age of 79 of congestive heart failure.

“I was just lucky enough to become her friend in the last year and a half,” he said. “I adore her… still.”

As previously reported on AccessHollywood.com, Colin recited Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poem, “The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo” at her funeral and he revealed it was the actress herself who picked out the material.

“Elizabeth chose it. It was a tricky poem as well,” Colin laughed. “Even in passing she had me under the thumb, sweating bricks. She asked someone else to ask me [to read it],” Colin explained, adding he felt, “sad and honored” when he got the call. “I just miss her; I just miss her; I just miss her,” he added.

Elizabeth first revealed the pair’s friendship earlier this year in an interview for the March issue of Harper’s Bazaar magazine, conducted by Kim Kardashian. At the time Dame Elizabeth told the young celebutante, “I love Johnny Depp, and I love Colin Farrell – both brilliant, nuanced actors with great range.”

But that Colin Farrell is gone. The former party animal turned devoted dad reveals that he gave up drinking so that he could focus on his acting career.

“I just wanted to stop. I was done with it, I was tired of it, I wanted to get off the treadmill,” Colin tells Total Film magazine. “Giving up alcohol has put more focus on my career. I’m a lot more appreciative over what I have,” he admits.

The fact that he may have knocked up yet another unknown model/actress is just about the only crazy thing we’ve heard of CF doing in ages.

Recently Colin’s girlfriend, Polish actress Alicja Bachleda, has been seen wearing flowy tops and dress and on Sunday night she was photographed at LAX wearing a loose-fitting black dress that was very obviously covering a baby bump.

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But then he got sober, cut his greasy hair, started being a good dad and I started to think he might be eligible for my Top Five list again someday..and today is that day. How sweet is this story?

Former bad boy Colin is preparing to walk his gay brother down the aisle when he gets married abroad later this year.

The actor will be best man when Eamon Farrell ties the knot with his partner Steven in a European ceremony. And Eamon has blasted the British government for forcing him to travel abroad to marry. Gay couples can make their relationships legal in the U.K. with same sex civil unions, but still cannot marry in the same way as a man and woman.

Eamon says, “We have to get married abroad. It’s absolutely terrible. We have to go somewhere legal, which narrows it down to about five countries. I want to be able to get married. The Government’s paper on civil unions is only for gay people. If you’re straight, you can’t have one. So that’s not fair either. If you want a civil union you should be able to do it, if I want to get married I should be able to do it.”

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“So much of the work that I did I was struggling so hard to keep my shit together. A lot of my energy was going into trying not to have a complete meltdown. By the end of Miami Vice I was just done. I had created an environment for myself, a way of living for myself which, on the outside, seemed incredibly gregarious and vivacious. I don’t believe I have any chemical predisposition towards depression, but let’s just say I was suffering from a spiritual malady for years and I indulged it.”

Discussion about his addiction begins around 3:30 …

This indulgent time also included the filming of Colin’s now infamous sex tape with then girlfriend Nicole Narain. “An expensive 14 minutes, that one… It seemed like a good idea at the time.The man in charge said I hope you’ve learned your lesson Mr Farrell and I said ‘absolutely, next time I’ll take the tape with me’. I think I was high.”

And here Colin dishes on the sex tape…

It is believed he has lost as much as three stone for the Bosnian film, in which he stars alongside Spanish actress Paz Vega and British actor Christopher Lee. The thriller tells the story of a war photographer who loses his best friend during a harrowing assignment in war-torn Bosnia during the early 1990s.

I was sort of over Colin anyway, but while researching this story I came across some pictures of this Irish hottie back in the day and now I’m jonesing for the old CF.

Check out the skeleton that once was hunky Colin Farrell pictured here while on a break from filming in Spain. Do all men start to look the same when they get too thin? Doesn’t he look just like Christian Bale in The Machinist?

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So why do we find him so gosh darn sexy? Maybe his Irish blarney has some magical power over yank chicks. Maybe it’s because his enormous talent is actually bigger than his enormous ego.

Also we hear he is a devoted father and that wins him enough points to overshadow the fact that he has hooked-up with Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears.

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