Kevin Spacey Slams New Doc About Alleged Abuse in Video
Kevin Spacey has responded to abuse allegations against him in the new doc “Spacey Unmasked” via a video response posted on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Journalist Dan Wootton interviewed Spacey in a lengthy video titled “Right of Reply,” and Spacey asserted, “I’ve got nothing left to hide.”
“Why didn’t you just deny it?” Wootton asked about the early Anthony Rapp allegation. Spacey said he didn’t know what to do. “I honestly do not remember the encounter. If I did behave then as he described, I owe him a sincere apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior,” Spacey read from his statement to Buzzfeed at the time.
Wootton proposes that Rapp brought his allegations out of jealousy, while Spacey explains how he didn’t grasp the assault allegations at first, thinking that Rapp’s motive was to out his homosexuality. “I will never again apologize for something I did not do,” he says.
Spacey says he would have preferred to come out onstage if he had won an Emmy, saying, “It sure is nice to hold a woman for a change.” However, he didn’t win in 2016 or 2017.
He also tells Wootton of his confusion about modern romantic encounters. “What are the rules of engagement here?” he asks rhetorically.
“Nobody in Hollywood has ever presented a path back for me,” Spacey continues, “There’s no coursework material. I’ve been given no boxes to check, no nothing. It seems that some are content with just canceling me forever. It’s a life sentence.”
“Spacey Unmasked” is set to air on Channel 4 in the U.K. on May 6 or 7, and has also been acquired by Max for the U.S. The two-part documentary features previously unheard of testimonies about the actor’s alleged sexually inappropriate behavior, including a claim that he groped another “House of Cards” actor on set and an accusation that he made an “aggressive sexual move” on a classmate in high school.
Spacey first spoke out against the doc in a post on X on Thursday, writing: “Over the last week, I have repeatedly requested that Channel 4 afford me more than 7 days to respond to allegations made against me dating back 48 years and provide me with sufficient details to investigate these matters. Channel 4 has refused on the basis that they feel that asking for a response in 7 days to new, anonymized and non-specific allegations is a ‘fair opportunity’ for me to refute any allegations made against me. I will not sit back and be attacked by a dying network’s one-sided ‘documentary’ about me in their desperate attempt for ratings.”
He added, “There’s a proper channel to handle allegations against me and it’s not Channel 4. Each time I have been given the time and a proper forum to defend myself, the allegations have failed under scrutiny and I have been exonerated. Tune in this weekend to see my response on http://X.com/kevinspacey. Channel 4 and [doc producers] RoastBeefTV may find themselves ‘speechless’, but I no longer will be.”
Spacey has denied all allegations against him since they began to arise in the wake of the #MeToo movement in 2017. In 2022, a New York jury concluded that he did not molest actor Rapp, who had accused him of sexual assault in the early 1980s when Rapp was 14. And last year, a jury in London found Spacey not guilty of nine charges of sexual assault from four complainants. Several other charges and lawsuits have been dropped.
