In what has become a war of words, screenwriter David Bar Katz, the man who found the body of late Oscar-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman, reportedly tells The National ENQUIRER he was in a gay relationship with the actor.
“We were homosexual lovers,” Katz, Hoffman’s friend and confidante, said in a new interview, according to the magazine, which hit newsstands on Wednesday.
“We had a relationship.”
Katz told The ENQUIRER prior to discovering the Boogie Nights star in his bathroom early Sunday, he and Hoffman had been “planning to go to the Super Bowl together and have a really nice day.
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“This is so terrible,” he added.
But confronted at the West Village apartment of Hoffman’s longtime girlfriend, Mimi O’Donnell, on Wednesday, Katz insisted, ”I never said that, no.”
Katz’s denial was followed by a statement in which he vowed to take legal action.
According to The ENQUIRER, Katz said he’d witnessed the actor use heroin before, “but I never thought his addiction had reached that level.”
Katz reportedly said he’d seen the troubled actor freebase cocaine the night prior to his fatal overdose.
A source told The ENQUIRER that Hoffman’s issues with drugs and his sexuality eventually put an end to his relationship with Mimi O’Donnell, his girlfriend of 15 years and the mother of his three kids.
“His drug use, and his ambivalence over whether he was straight or gay, drove a wedge between him and Mimi and broke them up,” the insider told The ENQUIRER. “One part of him wanted a normal family life while another part wanted heroin and the gay life.”
For more on this story, check out this week’s edition of The ENQUIRER.