“Woody Harrelson defended his clash with a photographer at a New York airport Wednesday night as a case of mistaken identity — he says he mistook the cameraman for a zombie.”
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Harrelson, who is being sued by another TMZ photographer for an alleged assault in 2006, did not deny his involvement.
“I wrapped a movie called ‘Zombieland,’ in which I was constantly under assault by zombies, then flew to New York, still very much in character,” Harrelson said in a statement issued Friday by his publicist.
“With my daughter at the airport I was startled by a paparazzo, who I quite understandably mistook for a zombie,” he said. CNN.com.
Yes indeed, in character and all “quite understandable”, Woody. As Jon Lovitz used to say — index finger thrust towards the heavens — “acting!”
..and I seen a lot of people walking around with tombstones in their eyes.
It was a song, Woody, just a song…
You know, lame excuses for assault, delusional celebrity behavior, this has all the makings of a case where I’d be outraged. But they ruin it when the victim is a paparazzo.
‘”With my daughter at the airport I was startled by a paparazzo, who I quite understandably mistook for a zombie,” he said.’
LOL. The way these people are hounded is horrific– and really ultimately the fault of viewers who lap up the celebrity news and finance the whole mess.
He should go to jail for the assult on a TMZ photgrapher.
@Jim
The law may say, technically, that assaulting a man and destroying his property is illegal. But this is the dawning Age of Judicial Empathy. What about Woody’s broken heart? His haunted soul? As a Kucinich supporter, he’s got a ready-made case for an insanity plea.
Somebody … take my picture … please!!!
Roger,
The trial may turn out to be the occasion of the most bizarre claim of diminished capacity since the Milk-Moscone-White “Twinkie defense.”
Jamie Irons
“The trial may turn out to…”
There may not be a trial. Woody Harrelson’s lawyers are probably already offering the victim a bribe. It will be handled discretely and the photographer will have a much larger bank account. Life is not fair. Why couldn’t Harrelson have hit me? Shucks, I could use the money.
I just remember when Dennis Rodman kicked a photographer. The guy probably suffered only a bruise for about three days. Rodman reportedly paid out roughly $200,000. The photographer probably wished that the weird basketball player had kicked him a few more times. He could have been set for life.
No doudt Woody is arranging settlement, but he might wave a good shot at trial; he will have any resonable juy’s sympathy and his “hemp” thing and lifestyle really does support a temp nuts defence. A jury of libertarians and he is free.
I believe Woody was making a joke. It’s really quite funny.