Chris Noth is speaking out almost two years after he was first accused of sexual assault by multiple women, which go back to around 2004.
The 68-year-old former And Just Like That actor spoke to USA Today in a candid interview, reflecting on the claims and how he has been attempting to move forward from them.
If you don’t know, a handful of women came forward with accusations about assaults by Chris, which ultimately led to his firing from CBS’ The Equalizer, and his ad with Peloton was also pulled from the air.
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Chris still maintains that he did nothing wrong, saying that every accusation was false and they all were consensual.
“I strayed on my wife, and it’s devastating to her and not a very pretty picture. What it isn’t is a crime,” he told the outlet.
Chris does admit that there’s “nothing I can say to change anyone’s mind when you have that kind of a tidal wave. It sounds defensive. I’m not. There’s no criminal court. There’s no criminal trial. There’s nothing for me to get on the stand about and get my story out, get witnesses. And there’s even more absurd add-ons that are completely ridiculous, that have absolutely no basis in fact.”
While he’s disappeared from television and online media now, Chris is getting back to work as an actor by performing in Eugene Ionesco‘s play Rhinoceros in Massachusetts’s Berkshire Mountains area.
“I’m not going to lay down and just say it’s over,” he said of getting back out there and performing. “It’s a salacious story, but it’s just not a true one. And I can’t just say ‘Well, OK, that’s it for me’ because of that. I’m an actor. I have other things that I want to do creatively.”
He adds he also has “children to support. I can’t just rest on my laurels. So yeah, I have enough to let a year drift, but I don’t know how to gauge or judge getting back into the club, the business, because corporations are frightened.”
“People are afraid of all this. Fear is the overriding operative word when it comes to whether they believe it or not. … I have to just continue on. It’s rough, because people are scared, and their fear leads them. And I have to just persevere because I still have a creative life.”
Just recently, Chris blasted new reports that suggested he was “iced out” by his former co-stars.