Director Paul Haggis is speaking out amid his ongoing sexual abuse case in Italy as prosecutors there are trying to put him back under house arrest.
Noting an "absence of constricting violent behavior," a judge in the Italian city of Brindisi last week released the "Crash" director from a 16-day detention at his hotel, where Haggis had been for a film festival. The two-time Oscar winner recently gave a sprawling interview to the Italian publication La Repubblica, asserting his innocence and discussing the professional fallout from the allegations made against him in the U.S. and abroad.
"Being accused of sexual violence, something that I did not do, was devastating and something I hope no innocent person will ever experience," Haggis said in a translated interview, which the Italian outlet published Tuesday.
