Oscar-winning director Paul Haggis has acknowledged that he had relations with a woman who has accused him of rape, but says it was consensual.
The 65-year-old filed his response to a lawsuit against him by publicist Haleigh Breest on Monday.
Breest sued him last December, claiming Haggis had raped her after she accepted his offer to drive her home following a film premiere in 2013.
She also claimed the Crash director became “sexually aggressive” and forced her to perform the act on him before allegedly raping her.
Haggis has said her claims were “shocking and scandalous claims of fiction” which he vehemently denies. The director also denied Breest performed the act forcibly or without her consent.
The director also said they had “mutually and voluntarily removed certain items of each other’s clothing”.
In January, three other woman had come forward to Breest’s attorneys. However, Haggis had denied the claims in a statement.
