Mr Big responds to two sexual assault allegations
Chris Noth has spoken out about recent sexual assault allegations, after two women claim they were assaulted by the 67-year-old.
The Sex and the City actor has denied the allegations, saying the encounters were consensual.
"The accusations against me made by individuals I met years, even decades, ago are categorically false," Noth said in a prepared statement.
"These stories could've been from 30 years ago or 30 days ago — no always means no — that is a line I did not cross. The encounters were consensual. It's difficult not to question the timing of these stories coming out."
"I don't know for certain why they are surfacing now, but I do know this: I did not assault these women."
Chris has reentered the pop culture conversation recently, as his return to the screen as Mr Big in the Sex and the City reboot And Just Like That premiered last week.
The storyline in the reboot between Mr Big and Carrie Bradshaw, played by Sarah Jessica Parker, has made headlines around the world, and projected Chris Noth into the pop culture zeitgeist.
The Hollywood Reporter has shared a detailed report on the alleged assaults after speaking to the women in question anonymously.
The women, who don't know each other, told the publication that the recent airing of And Just Like That brought up painful memories and prompted them to come forward with the allegations against Chris Noth.
One of the women claims she was raped by Noth in Los Angeles in 2004, while the other woman claims she was sexually assaulted by the actor when she was in New York City in 2015.
The report shares the intimate details of each assault, to which Chris has not responded to other than his sweeping denial of both instances.
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