Responding to new sexual assault allegations delivered to mild by U.Ok.’s Channel 4 within the documentary “Spacey Unmasked”, Kevin Spacey sat down for an interview on X, previously Twitter, with controversial British journalist Dan Wooton. Within the documentary, which airs subsequent week and can stream on Max by way of an acquisition by ID Community, 9 new victims come ahead accusing Spacey of assorted types of inappropriate conduct starting from sexual harassment on set to masturbating in a movie show throughout the storming of Normandy scene in “Saving Personal Ryan”.
“I take full accountability for my previous conduct and my actions,” Spacey mentioned in his interview on X. “However I can’t and won’t take accountability or apologize to anybody who’s made up stuff about me or exaggerated tales about me.”
These allegations and interview come lower than a 12 months after a U.Ok. court docket discovered Spacey not responsible of sexually assaulting the 4 males who introduced the costs and nearly two years after a New York jury discovered him not accountable for molesting actor Anthony Rapp when he was 14 and Spacey was 26. Talking on how he tends to behave, Spacey mentioned, “I’ve been promiscuous, flirty. I’ve been annoying at instances. Undoubtedly persistent. However I’ve by no means, not as soon as, blocked somebody from leaving a room or locked the door. I cried as soon as to attempt to hold any individual within the room. However I’ve by no means put my arm in entrance of the door or locked it.”
One of many current allegations put forth in “Spacey Unmasked” is that throughout the filming of the 1999 dramedy “The Huge Kahuna”, an intern was requested to offer Spacey a therapeutic massage, a type of sexual harassment in-and-of itself, however that rapidly turned much more inappropriate. In addressing this accusation, Spacey mentioned in his interview, “Properly, I’ve to say that this man’s story strikes me far more in line with one thing that I may need performed … So yeah, I can settle for the opportunity of this up to now.”