Seven months after humiliating footage of a naked Jason Russell parading up and down a San Diego street surfaced online, the 33-year old finally opens up about his meltdown.
The Kony 2012 director sat down with Oprah Winfrey for her show "Oprah's Next Chapter" to discuss the day's events.
"I don't know who that was," Russell said to Winfrey about himself. "I cant... I look at that video and I think, how sad for him... you know?"
He told Winfrey that the meltdown was attributed to stress from promoting the film, not to drugs or alcohol.
In the sneak peek, Russell also told Winfrey that he has very little recollection of the day's events. In the video, Russell was allegedly masturbating, which Winfrey also asked him about.
"There were rumors of masturbation, but no one who was there ever said that was happening. I'm naked, so it's not a far extension of imagination that would be happening," he said.
Winfrey also questioned Russell's sexuality.
"I grew up in theater, my parents started a large children's theater organization, so I am animated, I am ... theatrical. That's me by nature. So when you take me, times it by ten ... ."
Russell said he ended up in the predicament by leaving his backyard, thinking to himself that he needed to get to New York.
"I have to stop the war. I ran out to the front and I think I was trying to ask cars to take me to the airport in my underwear," he said.
"I don't remember anything but a half second. I don't remember any of that.
After the incident, Russell spent six weeks in a mental care facility before returning home, ABC News reports.
He told ABC News that he wants to put the incident behind him and put the focus back on Kony 2012, a short film directed by Russell with the mission to bring public awareness to and arrest Ugandan militia leader and war criminal Joseph Kony by December 2012.
Kony 2012 is calling on supporters to march around the White House on Nov. 17 to demand Kony be brought to justice.
"We want to do some epic things because our time on Earth is so short," Russell told ABC as his first campaign was taking off. "Why not do this? Start here with Kony. Use him as the example of what injustice looks like in the world and then we're going to move to the next one and the next one."
Oprah's Next Chapter airs on Sundays at 9 p.m. ET on OWN.
Video of the incident below.
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