Piers Morgan slammed Liam Neeson on “Good Morning Britain” Tuesday after the actor made some extremely controversial comments about a loved one being raped.
Morgan did not hold back as he discussed Neeson’s The Independent interview, with the host even likening the remarks to the Ku Klux Klan.
The “Taken” star had told a journalist, who appeared on “GMB”, how he wanted to kill some “black b*****d” after a female friend was assaulted.
Morgan said alongside his co-host Susanna Reid: “When you hear it coming from his own mouth, it’s one of the most extraordinary interviews I’ve heard in my life.
“There’s no self-awareness. It’s the indiscriminate nature of this revenge he talks about. He’s talking about any black person who he can find an excuse to kill. It’s like Ku Klux Klan stuff,” he added, according to the Evening Standard.
Morgan went on, “You don’t want it to be [career-ending] for someone of his stature, but when you actually hear him say this stuff I think there will be fully justified outrage.
“If I was a black person right now reading this I would not want to see this guy’s movies. Does anybody? It’s so indiscriminate and so racist.”
Morgan’s comments come after Neeson’s interview was published Monday. He’d been talking about his new film “Cold Pursuit”, in which he plays a man avenging the murder of his son.
The star said, “There’s something primal – God forbid you’ve ever had a member of your family hurt under criminal conditions. I’ll tell you a story. This is true.”
He then added of his female friend, “She handled the situation of the rape in the most extraordinary way. But my immediate reaction was… I asked, ‘did she know who it was?’ ‘No.’ ‘What colour were they?’ She said it was a black person.”
Neeson continued, “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.
“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.’
“It’s awful. But I did learn a lesson from it, when I eventually thought, ‘What the f**k are you doing,’ you know?”
ET Canada has reached out to Neeson’s rep for comment.
