Kevin Spacey took the stand on Monday in front of a New York jury and refused to make a sexual pass at Anthony Rapp when the ‘Rent’ actor was 14 — then elaborated on how he was “at the hands of white supremacists and neo-Nazis”. His upbringing father” prevented him from coming out as gay.
Earlier in the day, Spacey partially dismissed the case against him when US District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan dismissed Rapp’s claim of intentionally inflicting emotional distress. The judge ruled on claims that reiterate Rapp’s claim of assault and battery, which now stands as the only remaining charge against Spacey in a $40 million civil lawsuit.
Rapp came forward in 2017 claiming that Spacey lifted her on the bed and pressed her full weight on her after a party in 1986, when the “Star Trek” actor was 14 and Spacey was 26. asked directly About the allegations, the Associated Press reported.
“They’re not true,” Spacey said.
Spacey was then asked if he had kept his personal life private in the public eye during his career.
“I work in a very complicated family,” Spacey replied. “My father was a white supremacist and neo-Nazi. This meant that my siblings and I were forced to listen to hours and hours of my father lecturing about our beliefs.”
Spacey said the experience made him hate “radicalism and intolerance” and that “whatever was happening in that house, it was something I had to keep to myself. We never talked about it. I I have never spoken about these things in public.”
Spacey said that as his interest in theatre grew, his father “spoiled at me at the idea that I might be gay.”
When Rapp first made his allegations in 2017, Spacey apologized and came out gay for the first time in his career.
