Spacey then referred to Rapp’s earlier testimony in which he called Spacey a fraud for not living openly as a gay man throughout his career. (Spacey was open about his sexuality in 2017 while in the process of responding to Rapp’s allegations.) “To call someone a fraud is to say that someone is living a lie,” Spacey said, according to Variety. “I wasn’t living a lie. I was just reluctant to talk about my personal life”.
Speaking for the first time about his “very complicated family dynamic,” Spacey said living with a “white supremacist, neo-Nazi” father “meant that my brothers and I were forced to listen to hours and hours” of racist lectures. “[Fue] humiliating and terrifying when friends came over to the house,” Spacey continued, according to multiple outlets. “Everything that was going on in that house was something I had to keep to myself. We never, ever talked about it. I’ve never talked about these things publicly.”
Earlier that day, the judge Lewis A Kaplan dismissed Rapp’s claims of emotional distress against Spacey, saying they were too similar to his claims of assault and battery. “I’m not looking to duplicate damage,” Kaplan said, according to multiple reports.
Rapp is one of several people who have brought sexual misconduct allegations against Spacey in recent years. When Rapp first went public with the allegation of him in 2017, Spacey initially apologized on social media. “I honestly don’t remember the meeting,” he wrote. “But if I behaved then as he describes, I owe him the sincerest apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior, and I am sorry for the feelings he describes having carried with him all these years.”
Spacey has since been removed from various projects amid the allegations, and in May he was charged with four counts of sexual assault against three UK men. Spacey denied and pleaded not guilty to the charges. He is due to face trial next summer.
Source: Ambito
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