Bill Murray says he felt ‘barbecued’ by 2022 sexual misconduct allegations

'To me, it's still funny, the idea that you could give someone a kiss with a mask on. It's still stupid,' Bill Murray said, reflecting on the incident.

Bill Murray is speaking out about being accused of sexual misconduct in 2022 while on the set of the film Being Mortal, which led to the comedy project being cancelled altogether.

In April 2022, a female crew member claimed Murray had kissed her on the mouth through masks worn on set of the film for COVID-19 safety protocol.

The 74-year-old actor said the allegation “still bothers” him and he felt like he was “barbecued” by the allegations.

“It wasn’t like I touched her,” Murray said in an interview with the New York Times. “I gave her a kiss through a mask. And she wasn’t a stranger.”

Murray said the complaint came from “someone that I worked with, that I had had lunch with on various days of the week.”

“We were all stranded in this one room listening to this crazy scene,” Murray said. “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.”

Murray told the outlet that he doesn’t go “too many days or weeks without thinking of what happened.”

“It still bothers me because that movie was stopped by the human rights or ‘H&R’ of the Disney corporation,” the Ghostbusters actor said. “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.”