Dustin Hoffman has denied allegations of sexual misconduct but admitted he has made “women uncomfortable” over the years.

In 2017, the 89-year-old actor was accused by six different women of sexual harassment, sexual assault, and exposing himself to a minor.

While he doesn’t address specific allegations against him, in his upcoming memoir, Look at Me, Dustin does admit that his “out there” sense of humor may have been taken the wrong way by some.

“I’m sure it’s true that in my life, especially forty years ago, I made some women uncomfortable,” he writes.

“But ‘uncomfortable’ is a subjective emotional state. What is crass and offensive to one person, another individual might find hilarious, or enlivening, or even sort of cozy.”

He added: “I love a so-called dirty joke. I am ‘a Borscht Belt flirt,’ as Bill Murray once put it. That’s not the same thing as pressuring someone to do something they didn’t want to do.”

Alluding to the start of the #MeToo movement in 2017, the two-time Oscar winner continued: “When a reckoning started making its way around the internet, and tearing through Hollywood, I thought it was a very good thing.

“I knew by then that plenty of women had put up with way too much for way too long in my industry. Not for a second did I worry that anything negative would be said about me, because the idea of taking something from someone sexually that they didn’t want to give… it’s just not something I’ve ever done.”

After the six women came forward and accused Dustin of sexual misconduct, he said that his “entire life changed.”

“There was no innocent until proven guilty. There was no ‘proving’ anything at all,” he writes.

“The whole thing was so crazy, I was sort of bewildered by how to defend myself… or if I should even try. I didn’t want to be fighting against something that I thought was important.

“I didn’t want to be on the wrong side of my own values. The only problem was that things were being said about me that just weren’t true.”

Dustin said that after he married his wife, Lisa Hoffman, in October 1980, he learned that “flirting with every woman I met was not okay.”

He continues: “It’s not that Lisa has ever doubted my love or my commitment. (Many times over the years, she has noticed me staring at a pretty woman, and said, ‘Dusty, would you like me to introduce you?’)

“She knows who she’s dealing with. She fell in love with a guy with a bawdy sense of humor who is obsessed with sex and is always looking for attention.”

He adds that it took “an embarrassingly long time to grasp that if I was flirting or my jokes were too dirty, people who were not my wife might think I was being inappropriate.

“I know I’m harmless, she knows I’m harmless, but if you’d never met me before, would you know? … I’m not looking to humiliate or offend anybody.

“I’m not a person who gets off on having power, or pressuring people to do things. To be perfectly honest, I never thought of myself as a person with power in the first place.”

He concludes: “Is it possible that I’ve been guilty of insufficient empathy? That I was too self-involved to correctly perceive what the people around me were feeling all the time? Sure. Of course.”