Solange Knowles seems to have confirmed accusations that Bill Murray grabbed her hair after an SNL performance in 2016.
As Murray faces allegations of inappropriate and aggressive behavior by a number of former coworkers, TV writer and producer Judnick Mayard tweeted to “remind” her followers that she witnessed the Ghostbusters actor “put both his hands into Solange’s scalp after asking her three times if her hair was a wig or not.”
On November 5, 2016, Solange performed “Cranes in the Sky” and “Don’t Touch My Hair” as the musical guest of Saturday Night Live. Benedict Cumberbatch hosted the episode and Murray made a guest appearance. In a second tweet, Mayard clarified Solange had just finished performing “Don’t Touch My Hair” when the incident occurred, writing, “That’s the audacity of whiteness.”
Solange appears to have confirmed Mayard’s memory by liking both of the writer’s tweets.
Earlier this month, Oscar winner Geena Davis claimed Murray tried to use a “massage device” on her in a hotel suite when they were filming Quick Change in 1989. “I said no multiple times, but he wouldn’t relent,” Davis wrote in her memoir, Dying of Politeness, per People. “I would have had to yell at him and cause a scene if I was to get him to give up trying to force me to do it; the other men in the room did nothing to make it stop. I realized with profound sadness that I didn’t yet have the ability to withstand this onslaught—or to simply walk out.”
The interaction allegedly ended when Murray “placed the thing on my back for a total of about two seconds,” but her negative experience with Murray continued during filming when he “screamed” at her in front of hundreds of people. “There were easily more than 300 people there — and Murray was still screaming at me, for all to see and hear,” she wrote.
