Inappropriate comment made by Liam Neeson at end of ‘racist’ interview revealed

The journalist whose interview with Liam Neeson has sparked a huge race row has opened up about the "inappropriate comment" he made at the end of their chat.

Independent journalist Clemence Michallon interviewed the Taken actor, 66, as part pf a press junket for his latest film Cold Pursuit – during which he admitted to his violent racist impulse after a relative was raped.

Liam admitted his shame over walking the streets with a cosh hoping he could find "some black b*****d" to kill.


Speaking on Good Morning Britain today via video link, he said: "As the interview was wrapping up, he asked me if I was going to use that story, if I would be very careful. I said yes, because I’m always very careful, especially when I’m doing my work as a journalist.

"Then he sort of switched to his actor voice, and there’s a famous phone scene in Taken, where his character is talking to the people who have kidnapped his daughter, and he said: ‘I have a very specific set of skills and I will find you and I will kill you.’ It was, in his mind, clearly a joke.


"Whether or not that was appropriate remains to be determined. But he said, ‘I will find you’. He said that to me in the same voice."

After wrapping up the interview, GMB host Piers Morgan lashed out at Liam for his "unspeakable racism" and compared him to the KKK after the shocking interview.

GMB Piers branded the actor’s words the "purest personification of racism".


"I think if you’re a black person in Britain, America, anywhere in the world, it’s as offensive as it gets, isn’t it?" He pointed out. "This is a major, major movie star wanting to know immediately the colour of someone who raped his friend.

"Once he found out the person was black, going out for one week – not just a moment of madness – for a whole week, armed with a cosh, looking for any black person that could anger him in his words ‘to kill them’. Think about that for a moment."

Piers added: "If I was a black man, I would just find that unspeakable. Just the purest personification of racism, right there. Because a black person might have done a bad thing to my friend, I’m going to kill any black person I can find. That is racism! That is Ku Klux Klan stuff, sorry it is!"

In the actor’s interview, he said his violent impulse came after an unidentified relative was raped.

Unable to cope with the aftermath, and – feeling powerless – took matters into his own hands when he returned home.


"My immediate reaction was… 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, hoping I’d be approached by somebody – 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."

He went on: "It took me a week, maybe a week and a half, to go through that. She would say, ‘Where are you going?’ and I would say, ‘I’m just going out for a walk.’ You know? ‘What’s wrong?’ ‘No no, nothing’s wrong.’"

Liam admitted now that it was "horrible, horrible" for him to tarnish all men of colour with the same brush and that he was so ready to hurt an innocent person.

*Good Morning Britain airs weekdays at 6am on ITV

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