As the actor became interested in theater, he reported that he endured yelling from his father, who used to yell at him at the idea that he might be gay.
He appeared excited Kevin Spacey during his testimony in the court of New York, according to “The Hollywood Reporter”.
The actor has once again claimed he never sexually propositioned actor Anthony Rapp, who claimed the Oscar-winning actor tried to “slam” him into his bed when he was 14. In fact, Anthony Rapp has sued Spacey, claiming millions of dollars in damages.
Spacey has repeatedly denied Rapp’s claims that the then-26-year-old Spacey picked him up like a groom after a 1986 party in his Manhattan apartment and placed him on his bed before laying on top of him.
Rapp also accuses Spacey of assault and battery, claiming that during their encounter at the time, he managed to slip away from a drunken Spacey, who he said followed him to the door.
“It’s not true,” Spacey said. The 63-year-old actor wiped away, as “The Hollywood Reporter” writes, tears from his eyes with a tissue, describing the pressure he has received all this time from journalists and lawyers.
“They told me I couldn’t push for the story,” Spacey recalled. At the time, with the #MeToo movement gaining ground, the entertainment industry was very nervous. There was fear in the air about who would be next,” he said.
He added: “I was shocked. I was scared and I was confused… I knew I was never alone with Anthony Rapp.”
After the publication, the two-time Oscar winner took to Twitter at the time to say he had no recollection of the encounter with Rapp, adding: “But if I behaved then as he describes, I owe him my sincerest apology for deeply inappropriate drunken behavior and I am sorry for the feelings that he describes that he carried all these years”.
His managers said it was the best way to contain a crisis that was about to get worse and avoid being accused of victim-shaming.
Spacey told jurors he now regrets his entire statement. “I learned a lesson, which is to never apologize for something you didn’t do,” he said.
Spacey said he had met Rapp and another aspiring actor, John Barrowman, backstage after Spacey’s Broadway show. She said she took them to dinner, a nightclub and eventually to his apartment, where she flirted with Barrowman, who was 19 at the time but showed no interest in Rapp, before the two guests left.
“Rapp looked like a kid and John Barrowman looked like a man,” Spacey said.
The actor was also asked by the judge about his personal life and family during his career.
“I grew up in a family where there was a strange balance to be struck,” he said, explaining that his father’s delusions when he was young led him to hate bigotry and intolerance.
“My father was a racist and a neo-Nazi,” Spacey said. “This meant that my siblings and I were forced to listen to my father lecture us about his beliefs for hours at a time.”
As Spacey became interested in theater, he said, he endured yelling from his father, who “used to yell at me at the idea that I might be gay.”
Before Monday’s deposition, Spacey said he had never spoken publicly about these things.
He said he considered coming out as gay publicly for about 18 months before deciding to come out after Rapp’s allegations were revealed.
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