Actor Liam Neeson faced backlash after revealing he sought revenge on Black people following his friend's rape, expressing regret but also defending his actions as driven by a desire for honor. He later apologized for his comments.
Liam Neeson discussed how he related to the revenge story by recounting the time he found out a man had raped his friend. Because the friend stated that the man was Black, Neesonhe"went up and down areas with a cosh , hoping I’d be approached by somebody — I’m ashamed to say that.
" He continued,"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.”“There were some nights I went out deliberately into Black areas in the city looking to be set upon so that I could unleash physical violence," he also. He called his actions"terrible" but claimed he was not racist, saying he would've done the same thing but in other neighborhoods if the man who had attacked his friend had been white. “If she had said an Irish or a Scot or a Brit or a Lithuanian, I know I would have had the same effect. I was trying to show honor, to stand up for my dear friend, in this terrible medieval fashion.” He later apologized for his comments,Here is his statement: “Over the last several weeks, I have reflected on and spoken to a variety of people who were hurt by my impulsive recounting of a brutal rape of a dear female friend nearly 40 years ago and my unacceptable thoughts and actions at that time in response to this crime. The horror of what happened to my friend ignited irrational thoughts that do not represent the person I am. In trying to explain those feelings today, I missed the point and hurt many people at a time when language is so often weaponized and an entire community of innocent people are targeted in acts of rage. What I failed to realize is that this is not about justifying my anger all those years ago, it is also about the impact my words have today. I was wrong to do what I did. I recognize that, although the comments I made do not reflect, in any way, my true feelings nor me, they were hurtful and divisive. I profoundly apologize."said he"retired" using the F-slur for gay people after he made a joke and his daughter gave him a"treatise" on the subject."The word that my daughter calls the 'f-slur for a homosexual' was commonly used when I was a kid, with a different application," Damon."I made a joke, months ago, and got a treatise from my daughter. She left the table. I said, 'Come on, that's a joke! I say it in the moviehe had"never called anyone 'f****t' in personal life and this conversation with daughter was not a personal awakening." He said he was attempting to contextualize to his daughter the progress that had been made since he was a kid, telling her he'd heard the F-slur often as a kid"before knew what it even referred to." He said he"explained that that word was used constantly and casually and was even a line of dialogue in a movie of mine as recently as 2003; she in turn expressed incredulity that there could ever have been a time where that word was used unthinkingly.""To my admiration and pride, she was extremely articulate about the extent to which that word would have been painful to someone in the LGBTQ+ community regardless of how culturally normalized it was. I not only agreed with her but was thrilled at her passion, values, and desire for social justice," Damon continued. "I do not use slurs of any kind. I have learned that eradicating prejudice requires active movement toward justice rather than finding passive comfort in imagining myself 'one of the good guys.' And given that open hostility against the LGBTQ+ community is still not uncommon, I understand why my statement led many to assume the worst. To be as clear as I can be, I stand with the LGBTQ+ community."that he raped his wife, saying, “Me and my wife dated for a whole year, she would not give me no pussy. Me and my wife hung out one Saturday night and she got sloppy drunk and passed out in my momma’s house and I got that pussy. She was f–king me back, and all that, but she was really drunk. I asked her yesterday, ‘Did I rape you the first time we ever had sex?’ And she goes, ‘I mean in hindsight, yeah.'”in the interview,"You shouldn’t have used the word rape first of all because the conversation we were having is about rape culture. The conversation we were having was you felt like it was OK for you to have sex with me while I was intoxicated. That’s a rape culture thing. That’s not rape. So when you asked me that question, I was hesitant to answer you because you used the word rape. But I mean, that’s not what went down. Like we both know what happened. I was not passed out. I was very coherent, like enough for me to lift up my hips so you could take my panties off. That’s what happened. You know that’s what happened. And the next morning, we had sex. That’s what I’m saying, your memory’s for shit. You don’t remember anything. And first kiss that night too.” Charlamagne also apologized for his word choice of"rape."spoke on his show about another time in which he got a girl drunk and gave her Spanish Fly , then had sex with her, and admitted to hitting his girlfriend when he was 16.on his podcast. “I posted this today because I wanted to address some clips that have been floating around from the podcast, as well as VladTV, where I failed to have productive mature conversations around issues that demand respect. ... Back in 2015, I attempted to have a dialogue about rape culture with an emphasis on the role men play...I can honestly say that I communicated that all wrong. For the record, in 1997 I was having consensual sex with a young lady," he said."I want to stress that I didn’t take advantage of anyone, and I want to apologize to anyone who was triggered by that story.” As for him admitting to domestic violence, he said, “There’s no legitimate reason for me to do what I did, but I did it. I immediately regretted it. I also made a mistake by generalizing that all men have put their hands on a woman at some point. I’m not gonna speak for everyone else, I’m only going to speak for myself.”has found himself the subject of controversy for many of his remarks, in particular the ones he made on the. In the episode , Adam tells a story about leaving Healy's apartment with friends, and one of the women with them going back to Healy's apartment because she'd forgotten her water bottle. “She went back in and Matty, like, on his phone and then on his 77-inch OLEDs just got Ghetto Gaggers blaring,” Adam, referring to a racist and misogynistic porn site where Black women in particular are degraded and humiliated. “Thirty seconds after the hang, just hardcore pornography.”Healy corroborated the story, saying,"You're not exaggerating. It was 30 seconds, like, you guys were still waiting outside. She came back in; I was already flustered. I was dressed as ‘guy who is jacking off,’ so I had, like, an untucked shirt, and I think it literally was Ghetto Gaggers on the TV — somebody just getting, like, brutalized."While Healy did apologize for the comments he made about Ice Spice in the same episode, and acknowledged he felt"a bit bad" and"irresponsible" after the controversy, he didn't directly address the story he told about Ghetto Gaggers."I think that I’ve said some things or kind of, I make a joke out of everything. That’s my thing. And I can take it too far sometimes in front of too many people," he said on stage."And I feel a bit embarrassed. So that’s the truth.” He later told the New Yorker he was baiting fans"a little bit" but said it"doesn't actually matter" because no one was genuinely upset over his comments unless they were"lying that you are hurt, or you’re a bit mental for being hurt."once admitted to domestic violence. In the Beatles song"Getting Better," Lennon wrote,"I used to be cruel to my woman, I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved," and he laterin an interview with Playboy in 1980."I used to be cruel to my woman, and physically — any woman," he said."I was a hitter. I couldn't express myself and I hit. I fought men and I hit women," he said."That is why I am always on about peace, you see. It is the most violent people who go for love and peace. Everything's the opposite. But I sincerely believe in love and peace.""I am not violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence. I will have to be a lot older before I can face in public how I treated women as a youngster," he continued. Outside claims of violence from Lennon include one from his ex-wife Cynthia Lennon and an instance where he beat up a friend for calling him gay.Eric Clapton also admitted to abusing ex-wife Pattie Boyd. “There were times when I took sex with my wife by force and thought that was my entitlement. I had absolutely no concern for other people,” heNumerous '70s and '80s rock stars have sung about hooking up with minors in their songs, perhaps most notably"Jailbait" by Ted Nugent , and also examined her sibling's vagina out of curiosity. Right wing blog Truth Revolt referred to these incidents as sexual abuse, which Dunham later called"upsetting and disgusting."a statement saying that her sibling had approved everything she wrote about them, and that she does not"condone any kind of abuse under any circumstances," adding,"Childhood sexual abuse is a life-shattering event for so many, and I have been vocal about the rights of survivors. If the situations described in my book have been painful or triggering for people to read, I am sorry, as that was never my intention. I am also aware that the comic use of the term 'sexual predator' was insensitive, and I’m sorry for that as well."that Dunham's behavior as a child was not abuse, but some people online still expressed concern that Dunham thought these stories were appropriate for her book, saying her judgment in including the stories wasof her white privilege. Other people felt the behaviors were clearly not abuse but should not be normalized that"heteronormativity deems certain behaviors harmful, and others 'normal'; the state and media are always invested in maintaining that" and that"as a queer person: i'm committed to people narrating their own experiences, determining for themselves what has and has not been harmful."in a 2019 interview that every year since his daughter turned 16, he'd taken her to the gynecologist to check if her hymen is intact in order to see if she's still a virgin . TI laterhe'd “embellished” and “exaggerated” the story, that he'd only gone to her doctor's appointments when she was younger, and that his daughter had no problem with it ."She understands my intentions and she knows who I am, who I’ve always been," he continued, but his daughter Deyjah'sindicated otherwise. She claimed T.I. had come with her to her gynecologist since she was 14 or 15 and that she"couldn't have said no." She called the situation"a little traumatizing," saying she was"very shocked, hurt, angry, embarassed" that T.I. had spoken publicly about it.of disturbing claims in his 1999 autobiography, including that he once repeatedly harassed a"hot brunette" along with a friend. “I fell back on my usual deviant way of getting a girl’s attention: malicious, asinine behavior." He said he would make threatening phone calls to her, telling her they were watching her and saying things like,"You better not leave work tonight, because we’re going to rape you in the parking lot and then crush you underneath your own car.” He then apparently made the calls daily for weeks, progressively getting"meaner."that he'd plotted to kill his ex-girlfriend and ex-bandmate Nancy."She had to die," he wrote. “While I didn’t think it was right to take a human life, I didn’t think it was right to deny myself the chance of causing someone to die either, especially someone whose existence meant so little to the world and to herself. At the time, taking someone’s life seemed like a necessary growing and learning experience, like losing your virginity or having a child.” He claims he and a friend followed Nancy to discover her routine, then came back to light her house on fire. He ended up getting spooked by sirens and decided too many people would suspect him.the story of losing her virginity multiple times, calling it a"fun story." She says she was at the movie theater with her then-14-year-old boyfriend when they were fooling around in the seats. She asked if they could have sex but he repeatedly said no, not wanting to lose his virginity in a movie theater. Despite his protestations, she says she sat on his lap and the two had sex, with Reid saying she"forced him upon myself" and that he didn't push her off. She's even
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