Matthew Fox was on The Ellen DeGeneres Show this week to promote his new film Alex Cross, in which he plays a sadistic serial killer who enjoys slowly torturing women to death and although some may say he was typecast, he tried to clear up the bad rap he’s received after being charged for assaulting a woman. In 2011, Fox was arrested in Cleveland after a female driver of a private party bus claimed that the drunken Lost actor hit her “in the private parts of her body” after she told Fox (who didn’t have an invite) he could not board the vehicle. Although criminal charges were dropped, the driver filed a civil law suit against Fox — prompting Fox to countersue — until both cases were dropped and Fox walked free. Fox told Ellen he’d actually been sucker punched by a man, saying, “A fight broke out, and she was a woman that was in proximity to that,” and claimed the driver was “trying to extort money from me.” Fox’s claims of innocence are suspicious, considering the public humiliation his Lost co-star and PETA activist Dominic Monaghan unleashed in 2011. Via Twitter, Monaghan announced that Fox indeed “beats women, not isolated incidents. Often.” Speaking about the recent DUI charge Fox received in Oregon on May 6, Fox joked ,“This I actually did do.”~Brandon Bastaldo