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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”.