Hollywood star Will Smith was angry that a news story misinterpreted his remark about Adolf Hitler, according to U.S. media reports Wednesday. (File Photo)

    BEIJING, Dec. 26 (Xinhaunet) -- Hollywood star Will Smith was angry that a news story  misinterpreted his remark about Adolf Hitler, according to U.S. media reports Wednesday.

    In the story published last week in a Scottish newspaper The Daily Record, Smith was quoted as saying: "Even Hitler didn't wake up going, 'Let me do the most evil thing I can do today.' I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was good."

    Over the weekend, dozens of celebrity gossip websites posted articles about the comment, many saying that Smith believed that Hitler was a "good" person.

    "It is an awful and disgusting lie," Smith said in a statement Monday provided by his publicist. "It speaks to the dangerous power of an ignorant person with a pen."

    "I am incensed and infuriated to have to respond to such ludicrous misinterpretation. ... Adolf Hitler was a vile, heinous vicious killer responsible for one of the greatest acts of evil committed on this planet," read the statement.

    (Agencies)