Invoice Murray Slams John Belushi Biography as ‘Prison’ and ‘Merciless’

Bill Murray is coming to the safety of his long-time good pal and fellow SNL alum John Belushi.

All through a present look on “The Joe Rogan Experience,” Murray slammed journalist Bob Woodward for his portrayal of Belushi in his 1984 biography “Wired,” which chronicled the life and occupation of “The Blues Brothers” star. Murray often known as Woodward’s sort out Belushi “totally inaccurate,” and suspects his sources have been pulled from “the outer, outer circle” of people that knew him.

“If he did this to Belushi, what he did to Nixon is perhaps soiled for me too. I can’t take it,” Murray talked about. “You may have two sources and all of the items like that, nonetheless the 2 sources that he had, if he had them for the ‘Wired’ information, have been to date exterior the inner circle that it was felony, cruel.”

Murray suspects that Woodward’s takedown might need been motivated by jealousy. He recognized that Woodward is solely “the third most well-known particular person from Wheaton, Ailing” behind expert soccer participant Purple Grange and Belushi.

“Belushi made people’s careers doable. Mine could possibly be thought of considered one of them,” Murray talked about. “There’s a lot of those who slept on John Belushi’s couch. There’s a lot of those who stayed freed from cost at his dwelling until they made it in New York. And I’m one. He died in an unfortunate methodology, nonetheless man, he was nonetheless top-of-the-line stage actor I ever observed.”

Murray went on to elucidate that he was requested to contribute to the information, nonetheless from the very beginning thought the enterprise “smelled humorous” and refused to help.

“I didn’t want to have one thing to do with it,” Murray talked about. “It went exactly the place I believed it was going. Even worse than I believed it was going. Merely the title alone, it was chilly.”