In a quite extraordinary interview, ostensibly promoting his new film (good luck with that!) Liam Neeson has claimed that, after a female friend (or maybe relative) was raped by a black man, he reacted in a rather unhinged way:
"I went up and down areas with a cosh, hoping I'd be approached by somebody. I'm ashamed to say that, and I did it for maybe a week – hoping some 'black bastard' would come out of a pub and have a go at me about something, you know? So that I could kill him.
It was horrible, horrible, when I think back, that I did that. And I've never admitted that, and I'm saying it to a journalist. God forbid."
Somewhere, a film PR is crying and shaking in a darkened room.
"I went up and down areas with a cosh, hoping I'd be approached by somebody. I'm ashamed to say that, and I did it for maybe a week – hoping some 'black bastard' would come out of a pub and have a go at me about something, you know? So that I could kill him.
It was horrible, horrible, when I think back, that I did that. And I've never admitted that, and I'm saying it to a journalist. God forbid."
Somewhere, a film PR is crying and shaking in a darkened room.
