Liam Neeson says he is not a racist in wake of rape comments

The actor tells US TV he was ‘trying to stand up for my friend’ but now thinks his response was ‘horrible’

Liam Neeson has denied he is a racist in an interview on US television, saying that he had grown up surrounded by bigotry during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

Neeson sparked outrage in a newspaper interview in which he said that, as a young man, he had wanted to kill a black person after finding out someone close to him had been the victim of rape.

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