Chris Noth Speaks Out On Sexual Assault Allegations Nearly 2 Years Later
08.08.2023 - 15:13
/ etcanada.com
Chris Noth is speaking out in his first interview since multiple women accused him of sexual assault in 2021. During a conversation with USA Today, the 68-year-old actor maintains his innocence and that the only thing he did wrong was cheat on his wife, Tara Wilson.
“I strayed on my wife, and it’s devastating to her and not a very pretty picture,” he tells the outlet. “What it isn’t is a crime.”
Noth and Wilson have been married since 2012 and share two sons — Orion, 15, and Keats, 3.
“The Equalizer” actor continued to maintain that his interactions with the multiple women were consensual.
“You give yourself the same excuses that many men do; it’s just a little side dance, and it’s fun,” Noth adds. “You’re not hurting anybody. No one’s going to know about this, you know, and sex is just enjoyable. And suddenly, a lot of people want to have sex with you. It’s like, ‘Well, I’m not going to get this chance again.'”
In December 2021, two women, who went by the pseudonyms Zoe and Lily, recounted two separate instances of sexual assault allegedly involving the “Sex and the City” star in 2004 and 2015 in a report by The Hollywood Reporter.
Zoe claimed that she met Noth in Los Angeles when she was 22 and he was 49 and was assaulted by the actor at his West Hollywood apartment. Meanwhile, Lily told the publication that she was a server at a club in New York City when she first met Noth in 2015 at age 25. Lily claimed she went on a date with Noth, then 60, and then went back to his house for a whiskey tasting, where she claimed that he sexually assaulted her.
Following the accusations, Noth denied the claims in a statement to ET.
“The accusations against me made by individuals I met years, even decades, ago are categorically