Bill Murray can't go long without "thinking about" his inappropriate misconduct allegations

He told The New York Times: "I don't go too many days or weeks without thinking of what happened in 'Being Mortal'.

"Yeah, I can say what happened. I think I'm allowed to. I tried to make peace. I thought I was trying to make peace. I ended up being, to my mind, barbecued. But someone that I worked with, that I had had lunch with on various days of the week - it was COVID, we were all wearing masks, and we were all stranded in this one room listening to this crazy scene. I dunno what prompted me to do it.

"It's something that I had done to someone else before, and I thought it was funny, and every time it happened, it was funny. I was wearing a mask, and I gave her a kiss, and she was wearing a mask. It wasn't like I touched her, but it was just, I gave her a kiss through a mask. And she wasn't a stranger."

The 'Ghostbusters' star then alleged that he could never have known anything about the "pre-existing conditions" that were supposedly in place around the time of the pandemic, and it is all a "great disappointment" to him that the film never came to light.

He said: " It still bothers me because that movie was stopped by the human rights or 'H and R' of the Disney corporation, which is probably a little bit more strident than some other countries'. It turned out there were pre-existing conditions and all this kind of stuff. I'm like, what? How was anyone supposed to know anything like that?

"There was no conversation, there was nothing. There was no peacemaking, nothing. It went to this lunatic arbitration, which, if anyone ever suggests you go to arbitration: Don't do it. Never ever do it. Because you think it's justice, and it isn't.

"You can teach an old dog new tricks. But it was a great disappointment, because I thought I knew someone, and I did not. I certainly thought it was light. I thought it was funny. To me it's still funny, the idea that you could give someone a kiss with a mask on. It's still stupid. It's all it was. And we're talking about a movie, "Being Mortal," which is a wonderful book."