Wesley Snipes is addressing on the claims of improper conduct on set in his 2004 picture Blade: Trinity.

Patton Oswalt, Snipes’ former co-star, said in 2012 that the actor “tried to strangle” director David S Goyer on the set of the 2004 picture.

The actor, who is 58 years old, lambasted the accusations, as well as the presumption that the story is accurate because of who is saying it.

Snipes refuted the allegations in an interview with The Guardian, saying the encounter “never happened.”

“Let me tell you one thing. If I had tried to strangle David Goyer, you probably wouldn’t be talking to me now,” Snipes told The Guardian. “A Black guy with muscles strangling the director of a movie is going to jail, I guarantee you… Did I go to jail for strangling him? Never happened.”

“Wesley was just f—ing crazy in a hilarious way,” Oswalt told the AV Club in 2012, adding that the third Blade picture was “a very troubled production.”  The comedian added Snipes “would only communicate with the director through Post-it notes” throughout filming. ” And he would sign each Post-it note ‘From Blade.’ ”

“Why do people believe this guy’s version of this story? Answer me that,” Snipes told The Guardian. “This is part of the challenges that we as African Americans face here in America — these microaggressions,” he added. “The presumption that one white guy can make a statement and that statement stands as true! Why would people believe his version is true? Because they are predisposed to believing the Black guy is always the problem.”

“And all it takes is one person, Mr Oswalt, who I really don’t know,” Snipes remarked. “I can barely remember him on the set, but it’s fascinating that his statement alone was enough to make people go: ‘Yeah, you know Snipes has got a problem.’”

“I remind you that I was one of the executive producers of the project […],” the actor, who will next be seen in the Eddie Murphy sequel Coming 2 America, said. “I was not just the actor for hire. I had authority to say, to dictate, to decide. This was a hard concept for a lot of people to wrap their heads around.”

Christopher Williams stated in 2004 that Snipes was the one who assaulted Halle Berry so badly that she lost most of her hearing in her right year. Berry has wanted to remain anonymous about her former relationship’s assailant. When others assumed it was Williams (also Berry’s ex), Williams revealed that it was Snipes.

He remarked at the time, “The stuff they wrote about [me] and Halle was totally false. They said something like I busted her eardrum, and I’m tired of it. I never said it [before] but I’m so tired of people thinking I’m the guy [who did it]. Wesley Snipes busted her eardrum, not me.”

Snipes also discussed his three-year jail sentence for tax cheating in 2008, telling the site that he “came out a clearer person.”

“Clearer on my values, clearer on my purpose, clearer about my relationship with my ancestors and the great god and the great goddess above, and clearer on what I was going to do once I had my freedom back,” he said. “The biggest thing I got from it was learning the value of time and how we often squander it… I understand that very clearly now, having been away from my family and loved ones two and a half years.”

Wesley will play General Izzi in Coming 2 America, a sequel in which Eddie Murphy reprises his role as Prince Akeem of Zamunda and which will be published on Amazon Prime on December 18th.