Kevin Spacey testified in Manhattan federal court docket Monday that he’s not “a fraud” for not popping out as homosexual earlier in life, saying he grew up in a “difficult household dynamic” — with a father who was a white supremacist and neo-Nazi.
“I’ve by no means talked about these items publicly,” the Oscar-winning actor said on the stand. “My father was a white supremacist and a neo-Nazi. My father used to yell at me concerning the concept I is perhaps homosexual.
“He would scream at me: ‘Don’t be a,’ he would use an F-word that was very derogatory to the homosexual neighborhood. I received’t use it right here in court docket.”
Spacey, 63, took the stand within the $40 million civil trial, the place he faces intercourse abuse allegations from 50-year-old actor Anthony Rapp, who claims Spacey tried to seduce him when he was simply 14 years outdated.
“They aren’t true,” Spacey informed the jury of Rapp’s allegations.
The “American Magnificence” star additionally denounced Rapp’s claims that he was “a fraud” for not popping out as homosexual sooner.
“To name somebody a fraud is to guess, say they’re dwelling a lie,” Spacey mentioned beneath questioning by his lawyer, Chase Scolnick. “I wasn’t dwelling a lie. I used to be simply reluctant to speak about my private life.
“I don’t know on what foundation he was saying I used to be a fraud,” he continued, referring to Rapp. “It’s clear he was offended I wasn’t out. We have now to respect it’s a really tough course of.”
Rapp claimed within the lawsuit that the “Home of Playing cards” actor, then 26, touched his buttocks, lifted him right into a mattress and laid on high of him after a celebration in 1986.
Rapp mentioned he was so traumatized by the expertise that he later discovered it tough to watch some of Spacey’s saucier movie roles, together with as a dissatisfied husband who seduces a teenage cheerleader in 1999’s “American Magnificence.”
Along with the civil go well with, Spacey is dealing with prison fees in London, the place he’s accused of abusing a number of males whereas working as an inventive director at an area theater between 2005 and 2013.
He pleaded not guilty to those charges in July and is scheduled for trial subsequent yr.
