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Piers Morgan compared Liam Neeson to the 'KKK' and slams him for the 'purest personification of racism' on Good Morning Britain on Tuesday after the actor sparked a race row over his comments on rape.
Liam, 66, had told The Independent in a recorded interview, which is included below, that he had wandered around looking for a 'black b***ard to kill' in a misguided attempt at rage after learning that a loved one had been raped.
And journalist Clemence Michallon, who conducted the controversial interview with the A-list star, revealed on Tuesday that Liam had 'joked' he would 'find her and kill her' if she wasn't careful with his controversial quotes.
Piers, 53, argued Liam could not blame stupidity or ignorance for Liam's choice of wording about black people in his interview as he asserted that the offence he caused was 'deliberate.'
He said: 'I've met him a few times, he's a very good guy to interview, very intelligent, so you can't blame stupidity for this.
'When you hear it coming from his own mouth, it's one of the most extraordinary interviews I've think I've ever heard in my entire life.
'There seems to be no self awareness in Neeson about how offensive what he's saying is.'
He continued: 'He knows what he's saying, it's not an accident, he's deliberately putting it out there. It's the indiscriminate nature of what he's saying.'
Piers was staggered by Liam's choice of words, saying: 'I think if you're a black person in Britain, America, anywhere in the world, it's as offensive as it gets, isn't it?
'This is a major, major movie star wanting to know immediately the colour of someone who raped his friend.
Piers added: 'If I was a black man, I would just find that unspeakable. Just the purest personification of racism, right there.
'Because a black person might have done a bad thing to my friend, I'm going to kill any black person I can find. That is racism! That is Ku Klux Klan stuff, sorry it is!'
'Once he found out the person was black, going out for one week - not just a moment of madness - for a whole week, armed with a cosh, looking for any black person that could anger him in his words "to kill them". Think about that for a moment.'
Both Piers and his co-star Andi Peters, believed that this interview could potentially be 'career-ending' for the Taken star.
He said: 'The reaction on Twitter was very extreme last night - people were saying it's a career-ending interview.
'You don't want it to be of someone of his stature, but when you actually hear him say this stuff, there will be genuine, fully justified outrage.'
Later in the show, Piers spoke to Andi to about his thoughts on the matter and he addressed the fact that when Liam heard about the rape, his first question was, "what colour was he?"
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