Kevin Spacey calls his father a 'neo-Nazi' as Anthony Rapp sexual misconduct trail continues
“To call someone a fraud is to say someone is living a lie,” Spacey said. “I wasn’t living a lie. I was just reluctant to talk about my personal life.”
Further describing his family dynamic, Spacey reportedly shares that he was “terrified” of his father and was “forced to listen” to Fowler’s bigoted tirades. When Spacey expressed interest in becoming an actor, Fowler reportedly told him “don’t be an f-word.”“I won’t say it here because it’s derogatory,” Spacey says. “I certainly had a degree of shame.”
On Monday, judges dismissed an emotional distress claim Rapp filed against Spacey on the grounds that it would “duplicate damages,” per Judge Lewis A. Kaplan. Spacey still faces battery charges .Beyond his New York City trial, Spacey also faces five sexual assault charges in the U.K., to which he has also pledwhich include four counts of sexual assault from three different men dating back to 2005—
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