Matthew Fox Arrested: 'Lost' Actor Allegedly Punches Woman

"Lost" actor Matthew Fox was arrested after allegedly punching the female bus driver of a party bus, according to The Hollywood Reporter. In attempt to return to his hotel in Cleveland, Ohio on Saturday night, Fox reportedly struck the driver in the chest and stomach after she refused to allow him aboard the vehicle, TMZ reports -- Fox was not a part of the private party that had rented out the bus.

The 29-year-old driver also landed a blow to Fox's face -- and may have broken her hand in the process. Fox has been released to a friend following his arrest. But Fox's victim, Heather Bormann, has since spoken out about the actor's violent outburst: "This was my self-defense," Bormann told TMZ. "This was the only way I could protect myself ... from a man beating up on a woman."

Bormann has yet to press charges against Fox who will appear alongside Brad Pitt in 2012's "World War Z." For Bormann's entire interview with TMZ, click here.

Comments

[ktharlot]

12:24 PM on 09/07/2011

She should have let him on. Everyone could have taken awesome drunken photos of him and displayed them all over the internet the next day...way more effective than a punch.
Actually, I think she is trying to get her "15 minutes".

[Asuigeneris1]

08:16 PM on 09/02/2011

Honestly, if he wasn't actually taken to a station and booked...if he was just released to his friend and went back to his hotel, then how much really went on? o.0

http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/celebrity.news.gossip/08/31/matthew.fox.probe/

Why would the cops not take him in, if he just started pummeling someone for no reason?

...unless there is more to it than that.

[chicamorena]

12:40 PM on 09/01/2011

Creep. I hope she messed him up.

[SteveDenver]

11:46 AM on 09/01/2011

"The fight started when Fox tried to board her bus, which had been rented for a bachelor party at which he was not a guest, Bormann said.

"Fox had one leg in the bus and one leg on the ground when she warned him to step off, but he refused, she said. That's when he started throwing punches."

[PeeWeesHerman]

03:30 PM on 09/01/2011

..."she said"...

[toocoolfoschool1234]

11:44 AM on 09/01/2011

She broke the golden rule. Always obey Matthew Fox! If you disobey you will be beaten and it will be your fault!

[toocoolfoschool1234]

11:41 AM on 09/01/2011

It's totally her fault, she should have given him a ride home! The man is entitled to a ride! If he gets on your bus you better drive him home or he will hit you and it will be your fault! Right? That seems to be the consensus amongst the haters who are trolling this thread.

[Ari Sedona]

11:38 AM on 09/01/2011

Was he lost?

[nightprowler]

11:18 AM on 09/01/2011

say it aint so doc...

[affiliateinc]

01:17 AM on 09/01/2011

Im sure theres more to this story. You dont just punch a woman cause you didnt get your way. That woman must have done something or/and provoke him and he was DRUNK. drunks are sensitive and dont rationalize.

[SteveDenver]

11:39 AM on 09/01/2011

He punched a female bus driver.
Don't infantilize him by saying this-or-that is why. There is no justification.

[toocoolfoschool1234]

11:43 AM on 09/01/2011

Haha, lets cater to all the violent drunks out there. We will just give them what they want! We don't want to make them mad because then they would hit us and it would be our fault.

[WhiteBoy41]

12:56 AM on 09/01/2011

He must have " LOST " his mind.........Mr. Booze striles again.

[Simba216]

12:43 AM on 09/01/2011

That woman is big, and I'm going to wait for the whole story.

[toocoolfoschool1234]

10:20 AM on 09/01/2011

I agree about waiting for the whole story but what does the womans size have to do anything. It's like you are implying its ok to attack fat women. What are you trying to say here?

[LANDCRUISERLARRY]

11:16 AM on 09/01/2011

big people are more able to physically harm another, it doesn't matter if they are male or female. If a woman is going to get into a physical altercation with a man, she better be prepared to get punched like a man,simply believeing that she should be safe because she is a woman is outdated. Equal rights, Right?

[Simba216]

06:39 PM on 09/12/2011

I never said it was okay to attack anyone. I said this woman is not a little woman.

[PeeWeesHerman]

11:07 PM on 08/31/2011

here's some good advice...if someone is trying to get on a private bus and wont listen to you....call the police...don't get in his face and initiate a confrontation...

[Asuigeneris1]

11:22 PM on 08/31/2011

Well, that may be sage enough advice...but if they assault you, they assault you.

Police don't just poof into the scene in the first few minutes that you call them.

[toocoolfoschool1234]

10:32 AM on 09/01/2011

PeeWeesHerman wants to blame the bus driver for being assaulted.

[Asuigeneris1]

08:10 PM on 09/02/2011

Well, until witnesses say otherwise...it could go both ways, to some degree.

[Asuigeneris1]

09:51 PM on 08/31/2011

Hmmm...so this article says he wasn't arrested.

http://www­.cnn.com/2­011/SHOWBI­Z/celebrit­y.news.gos­sip/08/31/­matthew.fo­x.probe/

CNN or TMZ, God I don't know who to believe...I'm so torn.

[Asuigeneris1]

09:52 PM on 08/31/2011

Ugh...link failage. : P

http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/celebrity.news.gossip/08/31/matthew.fox.probe/

[Asuigeneris1]

09:53 PM on 08/31/2011

"Police who investigated the incident Sunday did not arrest Fox and allowed him to take a taxi back to his hotel, according to a police report."

[Cynthia Foxxe]

03:59 PM on 08/31/2011

he gots dat cwazy look in hiz eyes

[joann95798]

03:57 PM on 08/31/2011

This guy is a natural mess anyway - going no where in a no where world.