McGregor in mafia bar shooting

Moulin Rouge Actor Ewan McGregor was terrified after witnessing a shooting in Russian mafia bar on his epic motorcycle journey.

The Scottish movie hunk roared safely into New York city at the end of last month after completing his journey around the world.

The 33-year-old star and his actor pal Charley Boorman left London in April and drove 20,000 miles (32,186 kilometres) through eastern Europe, Mongolia, Siberia and Alaska.

But McGregor's pal, composer Simon Boswell, reveals how the actor's attempts to blend in with locals in a Moscow bar nearly ended in disaster.

He says: "Ewan was having a drink when a Mafia boss came in shouting 'Let's party', and started firing his AK47 rifle.

"There was plaster and light fittings everywhere, Ewan was sh***ing himself".