Liam Neeson was criticised for comments in a recent interview he was involved in whilst promoting his new film Cold Pursuit.
He told journalist Clemence Michallon that after hearing about the rape of a friend he "went up and down areas with a cosh hoping I’d be approached by somebody”.
Liam added: "I’m ashamed to say that, and I did it for maybe a week – hoping some ‘black b*****d’ would come out of a pub and have a go at me about something, you know? So that I could kill him.”
Today he appeared on Good Morning America to speak out on claims he is “racist”.
Speaking to Robin Roberts on the national breakfast show he announced: “The topic of our film is revenge, and the journalist was asking me how I tapped into that.
"I remembered an incident almost forty years ago when a dear friend of mine was brutally raped.
"I was out of the country and when I came back she told me about it. She handled it incredibly bravely.
"I had never felt this feeling before - this primal urge to lash out."
On the comments he made to The Independent, he continued: “I went out deliberately in black areas, looking to be set upon, so I could release
