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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Catherine Shoard

‘To me it’s still funny … it’s still stupid’: Bill Murray speaks out about sexual misconduct allegation

Bill Murray arrives at The Friend’s New York premiere last month.
Bill Murray arrives at The Friend’s New York premiere last month. Photograph: Andrew H Walker/REX/Shutterstock

Bill Murray has said he feels he was “barbecued” by a sexual misconduct allegation on the set of a 2022 comedy, which led to the film being cancelled and his reaching a financial settlement with the woman who accused him of straddling her and kissing her.

“It wasn’t like I touched her,” said Murray to the New York Times in a new interview. “I gave her a kiss through a mask. And she wasn’t a stranger.”

Murray defended his actions to the paper, saying that the complainant was “someone that I worked with, that I had had lunch with on various days of the week”. The actor put his actions down to trying to be amusing in a strained and claustrophobic setting.

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