Brendan Fraser issues ‘almost an apology’ for ‘George of the Jungle’ Bay Bridge stunt The former stuntman appeared to break down in tears after telling of his childhood experience on the infamous bridge.
A former stuntman who claims to have been pushed from the George Washington Bridge has apologized for breaking the news during a radio interview that he was the perpetrator of the infamous stunt.
Brendan Fraser, who played Ned Flanders in “George of the Jungle,” has issued an apology for his remarks in which he implied that other people on the bridge were also responsible for pushing and shoving him off the bridge following a stunt.
The comments came during an interview with radio host and podcast host Tom Spurgeon on his radio show “The Spurgeon Report,” an episode that is now up on NPR’s website.
In his interview with Spurgeon, hosted by Tom’s co-host Michael McAdams, Fraser told Spurgeon that after watching footage of himself on the George Washington Bridge in his childhood with his father, he became ashamed for himself and realized that his family “had been doing terrible things.”
“I started to feel ashamed,” Fraser said. “I think that the shame is why I did it. And I think about the shame about all these things.”
At the time of Fraser’s interview, the George Washington Bridge was under renovation, but the bridge was still closed.
The full interview with Fraser, set to air tonight on the Tom Spurgeon show and broadcast by Tom’s show’s sister station, WVVU, is below:
I’m so ashamed by what’s past and what’s done that I’m going to show what I did to the bridge.
But first, let me back up a bit and explain what I did with my Dad.
I was eight years old and my father was on the George Washington Bridge. I was really excited to go up there and meet him.
He’s a really, really, really nice man. And I love him a lot and he loves me a lot. But on this day when we were going up the bridge, we were going to try to get away