Liam Neeson Admits He Wanted to Kill After Friend Was Raped

Liam Neeson Admits He Wanted to Kill After Friend Was Raped
Liam Neeson attends the screening of "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" during the 56th New York Film Festival at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center on Oct. 4, 2018 in New York City. Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images
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Liam Neeson has said he is ashamed to admit he had violent thoughts about killing a black person after learning that someone close to him had been raped.

In an interview published Feb. 4, Neeson said that after being told the attacker was black, he “went up and down areas with a cosh (stick or truncheon)” hoping a black person “would come out of a pub and have a go at me about something, you know? So that I could kill him.”