{"id":1700569,"date":"2022-10-17T20:02:53","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T00:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1700569"},"modified":"2022-10-17T20:02:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T00:02:57","slug":"courtroom-confession-kevin-spacey-claims-publicist-made-him-apologize-to-alleged-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/courtroom-confession-kevin-spacey-claims-publicist-made-him-apologize-to-alleged-victim\/","title":{"rendered":"Courtroom Confession: Kevin Spacey Claims Publicist Made Him Apologize To Alleged Victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcourtroom-confession-kevin-spacey-claims-publicist-made-him-apologize-to-alleged-victim%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1700569&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Embattled actor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/kevin-spacey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kevin Spacey<\/a> maintained his innocence, claiming in court on Monday that his publicist was the one who made him apologize to actor Anthony Rapp, who has accused him of sexual assault and is suing for $40 million in damages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was being encouraged to apologize and I\u2019ve learned a lesson, which is never apologize for something that you didn\u2019t do. I regret my entire statement,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2022\/film\/news\/kevin-spacey-trial-cries-anthony-rapp-apology-1235406412\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spacey said in court<\/a> in New York City, as his emotions got the better of him and he began to cry. \u201cIt\u2019s my responsibility. I put it out there. It was really wrong. It was really bad and I\u2019m deeply sorry. I have to own that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rapp accused the Academy-Award-winning actor of making inappropriate sexual advances toward him in 1986 \u2014 when Rapp was just 14 years old \u2014 in a bombshell Buzzfeed article. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/horrifying-spacey-quasi-admits-molesting-14-year-ben-shapiro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spacey<\/a> responded to the accusation by publicly coming out as gay, denying any memory of the incident described by Rapp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I did behave as he describes, I owe him the sincerest apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior,\u201d Spacey said in a public statement \u2014 a statement that he now says was given only at the instruction of his publicist.<\/p>\n<p>He explained in court that at the time, he had just felt blind-sided and he \u201cliterally didn\u2019t know how to respond.\u201d That was when his publicist counseled him not to come out forcefully against Rapp, saying that he ran the risk of people then accusing him of blaming the victim.<\/p>\n<p>Spacey also made a number of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/kevin-spacey-testifies-sex-abuse-trial-anthony-rapp-father-neo-nazi-203617192.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">other revelations<\/a> on the stand Monday, specifically about his family life early on, when his attorney asked him to explain why he had not come out as gay earlier in his career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy father was a white supremacist and a neo-Nazi. It meant that my siblings and I had to listen to my father lecturing us for hours and hours and hours about his beliefs and his ideas,\u201d Spacey explained.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to say that his father had been vocal about his concern that a young Spacey might be gay because of his interest in theatre \u2014 and it was clear that he did not approve.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything about what was happening in that house was something I felt I had to keep to myself and keep private and never, ever talk about to anybody,\u201d he continued, adding, \u201cMy father would scream at me, \u2018Don\u2019t be a \u2014.\u2019 He would use an F-word that is very derogatory to the gay community. I won\u2019t say it in court. As I continued in my life, I think I just \u2014 I had a degree of shame, because I wanted people to remember the characters that I played and not know too much about me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embattled actor Kevin Spacey maintained his innocence, claiming in court on Monday that his publicist was the one who made him apologize to actor Anthony Rapp, who has accused him of sexual assault and is suing for $40 million in damages. \u201cI was being encouraged to apologize and I\u2019ve learned a lesson, which is never &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1890417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1700569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1700569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1700569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1700569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1700569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}