Kevin Spacey Responds to New Sexual-Harassment Allegations

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Kevin Spacey has responded to caller allegations of intersexual harassment against him that were made successful the upcoming Channel 4 documentary Spacey Unmasked. In a lengthy interview with Dan Wootton, Spacey acknowledged that helium has successful the past been “promiscuous,” “flirty,” “annoying astatine times,” and “definitely persistent” — but denied ever engaging successful immoderate amerciable behavior. “I instrumentality afloat work for my past behaviour and my actions,” the histrion said. “But I cannot and volition not instrumentality work oregon apologize to anyone who’s made up worldly astir maine oregon exaggerated stories astir me.” According to Spacey, helium has ne'er locked a doorway oregon physically blocked anyone from leaving a country (though helium “cried once” to effort to get idiosyncratic to stay). He added that helium has ne'er promised to beforehand anyone’s vocation successful speech for intersexual favors.

Per Variety, Spacey Unmasked volition aerial successful 2 parts successful the U.K. connected Channel 4 connected May 5 and 6. According to The Hollywood Reporter, its U.S. aerial dates connected connected Max and Investigation Discovery volition beryllium announced adjacent week. The documentary reportedly features interviews with 9 radical who person ne'er shared their stories before. Their claims are said to span 5 decades and see allegations of intersexual harassment tied to some the House of Cards acceptable and London’s Old Vic Theater.

Spacey, who has antecedently been cleared successful cases in the U.S. and the U.K. of intersexual misconduct and intersexual assault, respectively, tweeted that Channel 4 offered him a week to supply a effect to “anonymized and non-specific” allegations. Deeming that an insufficient magnitude of clip and accusation to enactment with, helium opted to reply via his interrogation with Wootton. “I would truly emotion to beryllium supra each this and not person to speech astir it, spell backmost to my regular life, get backmost to work,” Spacey said. “But I person yet realized that if I don’t combat back, this volition ne'er end.”