Matthew Fox Says He Was Embarrassed By DUI

Matthew Fox said he is embarrassed by his actions in the past 18 months, when he was arrested for a DUI and allegedly got into a fight with a female bus driver.

In an interview with Ellen DeGeneres, the Lost alum said that it’s been a difficult year.

“There’s been some negative things written about me and said about me in the last year,” Matthew Fox said. “There is a woman in Cleveland who that claims that I hit her. . . I think she specifically says that I hit her in private parts of her body, actually.”

Fox, who appears in the Tyler Perry movie Alex Cross, denied the claims that he hit the woman while filming the movie last year in Cleveland, Ohio.

“It’s been a very tough year for myself and my family,” Fox said. “It’s difficult to be accused of something that you did not do. I’ve never hit a woman in my life. Never have, never will. That’s not a part of who I am as a man and hold that very dear to how I define my character. So that’s been very difficult.”

Matthew Fox cleared up the sequence of events for the alleged fight, Us Weekly noted.

Fox said:

“I was actually sucker punched in the face by a man and I retaliated against the man that sucker punched me in the face. So a fight broke out and she was a woman that was in proximity to that, and she decided that she was going to write up a different version of events that happened that night and try and extort money from me. That was what went down. And it went into first a criminal case. Because she alleged that I hit her.

“The prosecutors in Cleveland took about six seconds to see that it was hoax and threw that out. But then it moved into a civil case and we had to depose witnesses and find the truth and it took quite a long time. So now it’s in the past and the case was dismissed. Now I can finally speak my side of the story for the first time.”

Matthew Fox is now trying to put the incident and the past year or so behind him. He stars in Alex Cross, a foray into suspense/action films for Tyler Perry. As ABC News noted he’s also trying his hand at comedy, appearing as Mitt Romney in a spoof movie for Jimmy Kimmel Live.