Liam Neeson horrifies fans by telling how he went looking for a ‘black bastard’ to kill, after loved one’s rape
- The Irish movie star looked back on the previously untold incident with shame
- But fans were unforgiving, calling his behaviour ‘disgusting’ and ‘mind-boggling’
In a shocking new interview, Taken star Liam Neeson says he once sought revenge for a loved one’s rape by searching for a black person to kill.
During an interview with Britain’s The Independent, the Irish Oscar nominee-turned-action star revealed that when he returned home from an overseas trip and learned a loved one had been raped, he went looking for revenge.
“There’s something primal – God forbid you’ve ever had a member of your family hurt under criminal conditions,” he said before launching into the never-before-heard story.
“She handled the situation of the rape in the most extraordinary way,” Neeson told the reporter. “But my immediate reaction was … [he paused] I asked, did she know who it was? No. What colour were they? She said it was a black person.
“I went up and down areas with a cosh [club], hoping I’d be approached by somebody – I’m ashamed to say that – and I did it for maybe a week, hoping some [he gestured air quotes] ‘black bastard’ would come out of a pub and have a go at me about something, you know? So that I could – kill him.”