Kevin Spacey Blames Being Drunk And Gay For Molesting A 14 Year Old
Kevin Spacey issued the worst apology ever Sunday night after actor Anthony Rapp alleged the Oscar-winning star made a sexual advance at him when he was aged 14.
Rapp, who plays Lt. Paul Stamets on the CBS online series "Star Trek: Discovery," was quoted in an interview with Buzzfeed as saying Spacey climbed on top of him in a bedroom at a 1986 party in New York.
Rapp, who turned 46 on Friday, confirmed his comments to Buzzfeed in a statement Sunday night.
Spacey, who would have been 26 or 27 in 1986, said in a statement Sunday night on Twitter that he didn't remember the alleged incident involving Rapp, but he wrote: "If I did behave 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."
In his statement, he wrote: "As those closest to me know, in my life I have had relationships with both men and women. I have loved and had romantic encounters with men throughout my life, and I choose now to live as a gay man. I want to deal with this honestly and openly and that starts with examining my own behavior."
In his own statement, Rapp put the alleged incident in the context of recent allegations against producer Harvey Weinstein and numerous other Hollywood figures who have been accused of having made inappropriate sexual advances toward women.
"I came forward with my story, standing on the shoulders of the many courageous women and men who have been speaking out, to shine a light and hopefully make a difference, as they have done for me," he said. "Everything I wanted to say about my experience is in that article, and I have no further comment about it at this time."
Rapp was a child Broadway and Hollywood actor during the 1980s who became a star in the Broadway production of "Rent" in the mid-1990s.
In the Buzzfeed article, Rapp said he was at a party at Spacey's apartment in New York in 1986 when he realized after midnight that only the two of them were left. He said Spacey walked into the bedroom where Rapp was watching TV.
"My impression when he came in the room was that he was drunk," Rapp said. "He picked me up like a groom picks up the bride over the threshold."
Rapp said that Spacey then "lays down on top of me" but that he managed to "squirm" away.
"He was trying to seduce me," Rapp said. "I don't know if I would have used that language. But I was aware that he was trying to get with me sexually."
