Elijah clarifies child sex abuse comments

Actor Elijah Wood has cleared up his comments about child sex abuse in Hollywood saying he does not have any first hand knowledge of the same.

Wood, who began his career in Hollywood at the age of eight, claimed in an interview that Hollywood has been gripped by child sexual abuse cases similar to the Jimmy Savile scandal in the UK.

The 35-year-old The Lord of the Rings star said the newspaper interviewed him about his latest film The Trust, but the story was about something else.

“The Sunday Times interviewed me about my latest film, but the story became about something else entirely. It prompted a number of false and misleading headlines. I had just seen a powerful documentary and I briefly spoke with the reporter about the subject, which had consequences I did not intend or expect. Lesson learned,” Wood said.

The actor went to say that he had clarified the writer of not having any first hand experience of abuse in his career in the industry.

“Let me be clear: This subject of child abuse is an important one that should be discussed and properly investigated.

“But as I made clear to the writer, I have no firsthand experience or observation of the topic, so I cannot speak with any authority beyond articles I have read and films I have seen,” he added.