Woody Harrelson may need some cheering up.
Harrelson, 60, was on the rooftop of the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday evening when a seemingly intoxicated man would not refrain from photographing Harrelson and his daughter, prompting the actor to ask him to stop, according to NBC4 Washington. Harrelson told officers who responded later that the man lunged at him “in an attempt to grab his neck,” prompting Harrelson to punch the man in what police deemed apparent self-defense, a police report says.
The Metropolitan Police Department was called to the hotel just after 11 p.m. on Wednesday, and the man taking the photos was questioned in his hotel room, the outlet added. An investigation is underway, and the man’s name will be released once charges are filed, the report said.
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Woody Harrelson’s bus parked in front of the Saudi embassy, across the street from the Watergate. Other than that, nothing to see here. pic.twitter.com/eqwFWMJfw9
— Jeffrey Goldberg (@JeffreyGoldberg) October 6, 2021
Harrelson’s bus was reportedly parked across the street from the Watergate building on Wednesday, according to the Atlantic’s editor-in-chief.
Harrelson has been in Washington filming The White House Plumbers, an HBO series about the Democratic National Committee Watergate break-in that led to former Republican President Richard Nixon’s impeachment. The actor has made headlines during his time in the nation’s capital, meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi last week for reasons not directly stated.
Minnesota Democratic Rep. Dean Phillips, a centrist and friend of Harrelson’s, told reporters the actor came to “bring good cheer to a place that needs it right now.”
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