Yesterday, we reported that veteran actor Chris Noth (Sex and the City, And Just Like That…, The Equalizer) had been accused by two different women of sexual assault in 2004 and 2015. While the actor has vehemently claimed the encounters were consensual, another actress, Zoe Lister-Jones has issued a statement about her encounter with the former Law & Order actor.
Lister-Jones, who is also a director, appeared on a 2005 episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent, which also happened to be Noth’s first appearance as Detective Mike Logan in the Dick Wolf-produced franchise since 1998’s Exiled: A Law & Order Movie.
Yesterday, she posted on her Instagram account that she was glad Noth’s Sex and the City character Mr. Big had been killed off in the new sequel series And Just Like That…
“Last week my friend asked me how I felt about Mr. Big’s death on ‘And Just Like That,’ and I said, honestly, I felt relieved. He asked why and I told him it was because I couldn’t separate the actor from the man, and the man is a sexual predator,” Lister-Jones penned. “My friend was alarmed at my word choice. And to be honest, so was I. I hadn’t thought of this man for so many years, and yet there was a virility to my language that came from somewhere deep and buried.”
Lister-Jones went into detail about her encounters with Noth.
“In my twenties, I worked at a club in NY that Chris Noth owned and on the few occasions he would show up, he was consistently sexually inappropriate with a fellow female promoter. That same year I was a guest star on Law and Order and it was his first episode after returning as a detective after SATC. He was drunk on set,” Lister-Jones continued.
According to her post, Noth was not only inappropriate on set. He was drinking.
“During my interrogation scene he had a 22 oz of beer under the table that he would drink in between takes. In one take, he got close to me, sniffed my neck, and whispered ‘you smell good.’ I didn’t say anything. My friend at the club never said anything. It’s so rare that we do,” Lister-Jones said.
She added that her “experiences are small in comparison to the accounts of assault that have so bravely been shared today,” but said that dealing with predators “is a burden all women have to bear.”
Noth has denied the accusations which first appeared in The Hollywood Reporter, saying: “The accusations against me made by individuals I met years, even decades, ago are categorically false. 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.”
Read Zoe Lister-Jones full post below:
REELated: And Just Like That, Chris Noth is in “BIG” trouble
Reactions to the post have ranged from extremely positive, calling Lister-Jones, “Brave” to derogatory, accusing her of just trying to capitalize on the situation.
