Months after the dust had settled, the actor provided quite a different story for how the events went down leading up to his firing, which drew fan ire back to the surface.
A fairly large backlash accompanied Clayne Crawford’s removal from the modest Fox hit, driven forward by the actor claiming he was completely unaware of what was happening at the time his exit was being put into practice by Fox execs and Lethal Weapon’s producers.
Essentially, Crawford copped to some of the behavioral claims made against him, such as losing his cool and yelling at an assistant director, but he denied other allegations concerning a Season 2 episode he directed; Damon Wayans claimed that Crawford ran an unsafe set, and had shared a video in which he states he could be seen getting hit by shrapnel during an explosion filmed for one stunt, which further fueled the feud that had built up between the co-stars.