Robert Downey Jr. Justifies Walking Out On Journalist Krishnan Guru-Murthy: 'I Will Not Accomodate Weirdo Shit'

Robert Downey finally shared what he was really thinking when he walked out on Channel 4 journalist Krishnan Guru-Murthy. He said the journalist had his own “creepy, dark agenda” that he refused to accommodate.

In an interview with Howard Stern on Tuesday (via Hollywood Reporter), Downey showed no remorse for walking out of an interview and even claimed that he wished he left sooner. He said the journalist lacked decorum and did not even respect simple boundaries. He said Guru-Murthy has a scary agenda to make him look bad on television and could not just stick to the original plan of talking about the movie that he was promoting. For him, interviewer knew that kids would be tuning on to his interview because he would be presumably talk about “Avengers,” but instead the conversation had to go into a personal note. "I'm one of those guys where I'm always kind of assuming the social decorum is in play and that we're promoting a superhero movie, a lot of kids are going to see it," he told Stern on the SiriusXM show. "This has nothing to do with your creepy, dark agenda that I'm feeling like all of a sudden ashamed and obligated to accommodate your weirdo shit."

Downey added that at 50, he has qualms against people who cannot respect boundaries. Therefore, during the interview, he did not hesitate to leave. He said that there is a grave assumption that once celebrities subjected themselves, they can already be “scrutinized like a kiddie fiddler who's running for mayor.” In the future, he promised himself that he would distance himself from such interviewers or else he is bound to hurt someone and that would be the "real scoop."

The “Ironman” star stormed out on Guru-Murthy last week because he felt that the questions that were being asked had nothing to do with the promotion of “Avengers: Age of Ultron.” Downey was asked some personal questions on his father, drug use and alcohol consumption, prompting him to get up and walk away from the interview even though it was not done yet. He gave the presenter a pat in the back and told him that the questions are starting to sound like something Diane Sawyer should be asking and not the Channel 4 presenter on that particular interview, which Downey did not sign up for.

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