As Wendie already told you today, Dennis Quaid was let off the hook on a DUI charge by some cops who must have liked his work in The Rookie or something. The story goes like this: Quaid and his lady had too many drinks at their fancy pants dinner, Quaid assumes he’s sober enough to drive, but his drunkenness is visible enough because two cops rolled up next to him in a car and suggested that he take a cab. Quaid took their kind adviced and ditched his wheels for a taxi. And now? Now we’ve got the photos to illustrate the incident:

I knew this was coming!

After Meg Ryan started talking shit about old-school drama, claiming Dennis Quaid cheated on her regularly during their marriage, Dennis is speaking up to defend himself.

“It was eight years ago, and I find it unbelievable that Meg continues publicly to rehash and rewrite the story of our relationship,” he says. “Also, I find it regrettable that our son, Jack, has to be reminded in a public way of the turmoil and pain that every child feels in a divorce … I, myself, moved on years ago and am fortunate to have a happy, beautiful family.”

Dennis, as you’ll recall, remarried Kimberly Buffington, who later gave birth to twins.

DRAMA!!!

Eight years after their split, Meg Ryan is FINALLY willing to talk about her split from Dennis Quaid.

“Dennis was not faithful to me for a very long time, and that was very painful,” she says in the new issue of InStyle. “I found out more about that after I was divorced.”

And as for her scandalous relationship with Russell Crowe? “I think he took a big hit. But Russell didn’t break up the marriage. He was definitely there at the end, but it wasn’t his fault. I was a mess. I hurt him too at the end. I couldn’t be in another long relationship, it wasn’t the time for that. So I got out … My time as a scarlet woman was really interesting. As painful as it was, it was also incredible liberating. Now I was utterly free. I didn’t have to care about what people thought.”

Meg also talks about being dubbed America’s Sweetheart: “It’s an old-fashioned idea, so anachronistic. I understood it was a compliment about being lovable, and it felt nice … but it also felt, after a time, like ideas were being projected onto me that had nothing to do with me,” she says. “The girl next door to what? I never felt like a very conventional person.”

It’s always fascinating to me when celebrities talk about their pasts many years later. This puts a whole new spin on Meg for me. I wonder what Paris Hilton will have to say about these past few years in another decade or so.

And I wonder if Dennis Quaid will be telling HIS side of the story now.

This is one of those rare, rare stories where something truly awful happens to a celebrity and it is, honestly, through no fault of their own. On those occasions, I peer out my window to check for the flying pigs, and then get a gnawing feeling in my evil little gut that says, “Don’t exploit this.”

So I haven’t been covering the story of Dennis Quaid’s twins around here, because it sucks and it’s sad and it’s not his fault, but today I am happy to report that the twins are healthy and doing fine!

“The twins are back home,” said Quaid’s lawyer. “Their condition is fantastic, they’re smiling. Zoe looks like her mom, and Boone looks like his dad. They’ve fully recovered from the accident and it’s doubtful they’ll suffer long-term effects from the overdose.

Hooray!!! Much love to you and the twinsies, Dennis!

Meg who?

Dennis and his new wife, Kimberly Buffington, welcomed Thomas Boone and Zoe Grace on Thursday in Santa Monica.

The couple are the biological parents of the twins, who were born via a surrogate mother.

Everyone is doing well.