This year has not been one of the best for the American actor Kevin Spacey, since since the first months of this 2022, he has been accused of sexual assault towards at least four men, which is why he has had to face several lawsuits and he has even appeared in court in the UK.
These accusations put an end to his career, since he is currently still in legal proceedings trying to prove that the accusations against him are false. Recently, the protagonist of the series House of Cards took the stand as his own defense during the trial he faces for alleged sexual misconduct against actor Anthony Rapp, where he made strong statements against his father.
Appearing before the court in New York, after the lawsuit in which he can pay up to 40 million dollars to Rapp for the alleged abuse received by Spacey in 1986, in tears, the 63-year-old actor confessed to the Court that he lived a childhood terrifying and humiliating, since his father repressed him and yelled at him for the simple fact of thinking he was homosexual.
Describing his father as a neo-Nazi and white supremacist man, Kevin Spacey spoke a little about his childhood and revealed strong details of his father’s upbringing, which he says is the main reason for his late decision to come out. gay before the cameras.
Defining his childhood as harsh, humiliating and terrifying, the protagonist of American Beauty He said he had to be forced to listen for hours and hours to the hateful and discriminatory speeches that his father’s ideology had on society, the main reason why he was forced to hide his homosexuality.
I have never talked about these things publicly. Never. My father was a white supremacist and neo-Nazi. My father used to yell at me about the idea that he might be ‘gay’. He was yelling at me: ‘Don’t be a…’. He used an “m” word that was very derogatory to the gay community.
–Kevin Spacey
After being pointed out as a “fraud” by the actor Anthony Rapp for never having declared himself openly gay during so many years of his career, Spacey assured that he was not, since he was not living a lie, but had to repress and hide his true preferences. because of the upbringing he received from his father, which is why he was reluctant to talk about his personal life.
To call someone a ‘fraud’ is, I suppose, to say that you think they are living a lie. I wasn’t living a lie. I was just reluctant to talk about my personal life. We have to have empathy… for everyone’s coming out process.
–Kevin Spacey
After his strong statement in which he blames his father for taking so many years to declare gay, his confession caused a reaction of great rejection for mixing these two issues, that is, defending himself against Rapp’s accusations by saying that he was homosexual. In addition, he was accused of trying to change the subject or trying to divert attention from the trial with his childhood.