Samuel Johnson has opened up about the secret feud he had with Sam Pang for almost eight years in a shock admission.
The Molly star, 46, and comedian, 51, had a run in together at a recent charity golf day on Victoria’s Morning Peninsula where the pair snapped a selfie together.
Johnson has since shared the picture to his Facebook cancer charity page Love Your Sister alongside a bizarre apology to Pang over an incident that happened in 2017.
In the lengthy post, Johnson said he once made ‘an a***hole’ of himself backstage at the Logie Awards that year after he won a Gold Logie for the miniseries Molly.
He explained he ‘behaved badly’ on a lift with Pang and has held onto the guilt ever since, but said he wrote an apology letter which he gave Pang in person last week.
‘I didn’t mean to be an a***hole and I’ve been trying to apologise to him for years,’ Johnson began his lengthy message on Facebook.
Samuel Johnson, 46, (left) has opened up about the secret feud he had with Sam Pang, 51, (right) for almost eight years in a shock admission
He went on to say Pang ‘is one of the funniest humans on the planet’ and that he is a ‘titan’ of the showbusiness industry ‘because he’s so bloody good’.
Johnson then wrote: ‘A shebacle is a shemozzle and a debacle together. My shebacle was the night I won the Gold Logie. Sam Pang came into the lift.
‘We were going to do a thing about where Burt Reynolds went wrong and in the lift I behaved badly and said the wrong things. I wasn’t funny. I wasn’t being light.
‘I wasn’t nice. He just looked at me and his face said, “Why did you just say that?” I should have apologised sooner, but I kept avoiding it.’
Johnson didn’t go into detail about what he said to Pang, but revealed he was so wracked with guilt over it that he wrote an apology letter with a love heart sticker.
He said he asked comedian Ed Kavalee to pass the letter on ‘because he knows Sam Pang quite well, but that was just another failed attempt’.
‘I couldn’t seem to do it. I don’t suppose [Pang] cares really, but I do. Then I found out I’d be in the same room as Sam Pang. I could pass on the letter myself,’ Johnson said.
‘I made the letter brief, so as not to waste his time. I put a love heart sticker on the envelope. My hands were sweaty.
The Molly star and comedian had a run in together at a recent charity golf day on Victoria’s Morning Peninsula where the pair snapped a selfie together
Johnson has since shared the picture to his Facebook cancer charity page Love Your Sister alongside a bizarre apology to Pang over an incident that happened in 2017
‘I asked [comedian] Mick Molloy to pass on the letter to Sam Pang for me, and Mick just ushered me over and told me to come say hi.
‘I’m pretty good at saying sorry, maybe because I’ve had to apologise so much, but this time I just had a letter with a love heart sticker on it.
‘I couldn’t rely on my stupid mouth. It took me five years to admit I was wrong and deal with it. I feel lighter now. I can’t hold on to my sorry’s. They get so big.’
Johnson said that Pang graciously accepted his apology and stopped for the selfie, saying he ‘was so kind’ and ‘beautiful’.
While Pang has yet to address their apparent feud publicly, an insider told New Idea on Monday that The Front Bar host was ‘perplexed’ by Johnson’s post and apology.
‘Sam has been left a little bit perplexed by Samuel’s post about the events on the evening when they met, but he also appreciates the gesture,’ they said.
‘As far as Sam was concerned, there was nothing serious to forgive and whatever happened, happened a while ago.
They went on to say that Pang was ‘more than happy to let bygones be bygones’.
In the lengthy post, Johnson said he once made ‘an a***hole’ of himself backstage with Pang at the Logie Awards in 2017 (pictured) after he won a Gold Logie for the miniseries Molly
Another source claimed: ‘Samuel is known for wearing his heart on his sleeve, so it’s no surprise that he’s gone into so much detail on his post about the incident.’
Johnson made it big as an actor in the 2000s when he landed the role of Evan Wylde in the television series The Secret Life of Us from 2001-2004.
He dropped off the map not long after when his sister Connie was diagnosed with cancer for the third time.
Connie suffered a hard, life-long battle with the disease, being diagnosed with bone cancer at age 11, uterine cancer at age 22 and then breast cancer at age 33.
She and Johnson co-founded the cancer charity Love Your Sister in 2012 and has since raised nearly $20 million for medical research into cancer.
Connie received the Medal of the Order of Australia on September 7, 2017, aged, 40, just one day before she passed away.
That same year, Johnson won the Most Popular Personality Gold Logie for his portrayal of Aussie music guru Ian ‘Molly’ Meldrum in the Seven miniseries Molly.
Johnson has since kept out of the spotlight, only making public appearances to talk about the charity he continues to run in honour of his sister.
After a shocking car accident in June 2021 almost killed him, Johnson retreated further from the public eye and moved to Tallarook in regional Victoria.
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