Sean Penn Confronts Rumor That He Beat Madonna With Baseball Bat
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The actor, who settled a related $10 million defamation case in 2016, suggested that if he hit someone with a bat, they would be hospitalized.
Sean Penn still remembers when he heard the rumor that accused him of hitting Madonna with a baseball bat.
Allegations of domestic violence, which Madonna has since denied, were in the news during and after the couple’s rocky marriage from 1985 to 1989. However, Penn said he first heard the particular story about the bat over a morning cigarette.
A woman he was dating confronted him about it after “a lovely evening” together, he told The New York Times in an interview that published Saturday.
“She’s looking at me like I killed her dog,” the “Mystic River” star said.
“I didn’t know what the hell she was talking about,” the Oscar winner added. “Now I think it’s fair to say that I’m not the biggest guy in the world. But if I hit Mike Tyson in the head with a baseball bat, he’s going to the hospital.”
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