I'M TRYING TO PIECE TOGETHER THE DATES... HAVE I GOT THIS RIGHT?

JULY 2008:
The first time we are informed of Farrell’s relationship with Emma.  The article states they have been dating for last 6 months so this would place them as having met in January 2008.

JULY 2008:
Within a week or so we now have photo’s of them buying a ‘pregnancy test’ including the leaving behind of a receipt, which if I remember rightly, we as Farrell fans found somewhat peculiar behaviour coming from Colin?!  Since coming out of rehab he seems to very much endeavoured to keep his ‘private’ life just that; Private.  So this sudden ‘unguarded’ moment did seem a tad strange to us.  Incidentally, this is the same day when later Colin would crash his truck into another vehicle and leave the note on the windscreen.

OCTOBER 2008:
Emma visits Colin on the set of ‘Ondine’.  This is the last photo I can find of them together.
 
DECEMBER 2008 - JANUARY 2009: HOLIDAY PERIOD
20 Dec - Emma is off to Istanbul, where she stays during the festive season, posting regularly on her blog.  She arrives back home around January 5th.

*If Colin and Emma did spend their Christmas, and the New Year apart then I think most people would consider this rather odd for a couple during the first year of their relationship?  (perhaps doctors, nurses or armed forces couple's but he's an actor and she's a writer... they're not off fighting, or saving someone's life!)

Golden Globes: now this is an interesting time slot… the Golden Globes were in January 2009, and there is not one single photo, I can find, of Colin and Emma together - even though they were both in attendance that night.  So had they already parted company by then? 

VERSION 1:
Colin begins to have strong feelings towards his co-star Alicja Bachleda whilst they are filming ‘Ondine’.  She feels the same.  Colin ends his relationship with Emma Forrest around sometime between November, or December 2008.  It would make sense why he wasn’t photographed with her at the Golden Globes, and so he probably didn’t deem it necessary to thank her during his speech.

VERSION 2:
What if Emma is right, in that Colin and her were still in a relationship, which was still sexually active, up to and during January 2009 then yes… this means Colin ‘did’ cheat on her.  And this also means that sweet, controlled, and Polish good-girl Alicja… ‘knowingly’ had an affair with another woman’s man!

If this does turn out to be the ‘real’ version of events, then I will be the first to hold my hands up and apologise to Ms Forrest… however, it still doesn’t change my mind that the book is a ‘kiss & tell’ wrapped up in the false belief it’s really a dedication to Dr R.   But respect where it is due… and Colin Farrell fan or not: I will salute you for your effort in trying to get your own back!

VERSION 3:   
What if Colin ‘deliberately’ got Alicja pregnant (unbeknown to her) just because he yearned for another child?  ANSWER: this man ‘seriously’ needs psychological help!

VERSION 4:
What if Colin and Alicja had both, decided to have a baby… this really would be disturbing.  Firstly, it would prove Colin was a sperm-seeking idiot, and secondly, that Alicja saw Colin as meal ticket to Hollywood films.  

WHAT WE KNOW...
It’s certainly more than a little confusing!  We know Colin and Alicja had to have been sexually involved with each other at some time during January 2009, (due to one baby Henry arriving in Oct 2009).  We know that in April they were first photographed together as a couple.  

Whichever way you look at it, there's not much of a gap between relationships, but then with Alicja pregnant, Colin clearly did the ’right’ thing and stood by her, and at least they both tired to give the relationship a go for the sake of their child.