Dr Blake star Craig McLachlan will fight the claims of sexual misconduct against him saying his career has been "annihilated" by the accusations.
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The Gold Logie winning actor show star admits the Rocky Horror Show's backstage culture could be lewd, but McLachlan insists he is innocent of the allegations against him.
McLachlan left the stage show mid-January amid allegations of sexually inappropriate behaviour, with his understudy taking to the stage as Frank N Furter for the Brisbane and Perth season.
It came after three women - Christie Whelan Browne, Angela Scundi and Erika Heynatz - who appeared in the 2014 production of the Rocky Horror Show told Fairfax Media McLachlan inappropriately touched them.
A woman and a man who worked as part of the crew have also gone to Victorian police who are investigating the allegations.
McLachlan says he doesn't understand why the allegations were made.
"And the truth, the truth will come out," he said while not commenting on the specific allegations made against him citing legal advice.
"There are hundreds and hundreds of people who will stand forward and go, 'what we have read in the media recently, this is not the guy we know'.
“So (I feel) anger, hurt, bewilderment, but it keeps coming back to shock. How can this be?”
Producers of the popular TV show The Doctor Blake Mysteries in which McLachlan stars have also temporarily halted preparations for the new series on the Seven Network while allegations are investigated.
