BUZZFEED NEWS REVEALED THAT ACTOR ANTHONY RAPP HAD BEEN
ASSAULTED BY KEVIN SPACEY BACK WHEN HE WAS 14 YEARS OLD.
AT LEAST A SEXUAL ADVANCES MADE BY KEVIN SPACEY TOWARD
ANTHONY RAPP WHEN HE WAS 14 YEARS OLD.
NOW JUST TO GIVE YOU A SENSE OF ANTHONY RAPP'S TAKE ON WHAT
OCCURRED AND THIS WAS ALMOST 30 YEARS AGO:
SO THEY, APPARENTLY ANTHONY RAPP HAD GONE TO KEVIN SPACEY'S
APARTMENT AND AT ONE POINT, THE ONLY PERSON WHO IS IN SPACEY'S
BEDROOM, SITTING AT THE EDGE OF THE BED APPARENTLY WATCHING A
MOVIE OR SOMETHING WAS ANTHONY RAPP AND HERE'S WHAT HAPPENED.
SO
HE MANAGES TO KIND OF GET AWAY AND GET OUT OF THE
SITUATION BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE HAPPENS BUT HE DOES SAY THAT:
SO KEVIN SPACEY RESPONDED TO THIS AND I'M GOING TO GET TO HIS
RESPONSE AND WEIRD APOLOGY AND JUST A MINUTE BUT I WANTED
YOU TO JUMP IN AND TALK ABOUT THIS.
SO NOW, AS WE SUSPECTED, NOW MORE STORIES ARE COMING OUT
ABOUT MEN IN HOLLYWOOD WHO PERHAPS SEXUALLY HARASS OTHER
MEN AND IN THIS CASE, IT IS A 14-YEAR-OLD SO THAT IS DEEPLY
PROBLEMATIC AND KEVIN SPACEY, FOR A LONG TIME DENIED THAT HE
WAS GAY AND THERE WAS ENORMOUS RUMORS ABOUT IT AND LET,
EVERYBODY GETS TO MAKE THEIR OWN CHOICE ABOUT THAT BECAUSE WE
DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS TO LIVE IN A CLOSET AND THE PRESSURES THAT
COME ALONG WITH IT AND WE DON'T KNOW WHAT JOBS HE WOULD'VE BEEN
DENIED A BIGOTRY AND DISCRIMINATION BUT ANTHONY
RAPP IS COMING FORWARD BECAUSE HE IS SAYING, HE IS STANDING, ON
THE SHOULDERS OF OTHER COURAGEOUS WOMEN AND MEN
WHO CAME FORWARD SO IT DOESN'T HAPPEN TO OTHER PEOPLE.
THAT IS OBVIOUSLY VERY UNDERSTANDABLE.
SPACEY'S REACTION TO IT WORKED WITH A LOT OF THE MEDIA, BUT IT
DID NOT WORK WITH ANYONE ELSE AND IT WAS A VERY POOR
EXCUSE AS YOU ARE ABOUT TO SEE.
RIGHT, SO KEVIN SPACEY RESPONDED VIA TWITTER AND WHAT
HE DID WAS POST A LONGER TEXT OF HIS APOLOGY, BUT HE ENDS IT
IN A QUESTIONABLE WAY WHICH HAS A LOT OF PEOPLE UPSET SO
PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO IT.
HE SAYS:
AND RAPP THE SPECIFIED EVERY
TIME A SPACEY GOT A NEW
ROLE RECEIVE A REWARD FOR HIS WORK IS TO MAKE WHICH
TURNED BECAUSE AT THIS DEEP DARK SECRET HE DIDN'T SHOW WITH
MANY PEOPLE TO HEAL MISSION WITH A FEW INDIVIDUALS THAT
WORKS FROM THE CLOSE TO HIM.
BY THE WAY, BUZZFEED DID REACH OUT TO THOSE INDIVIDUALS
WHO COOPERATED THE STORY.
SO SO FAR, IT'S A BAD APOLOGY BECAUSE IF IT
HAPPENED SOUNDS LIKE AN OJ BOOK.
IF I HAD DONE IT, THIS IS HOW I WOULD HAVE DONE IT AND THEN
HE BLAMES IT ON DRUNKEN BEHAVIOR BUT IT IS 30 YEARS AGO.
IT DOESN'T EXCUSE THE BEHAVIOR AT ALL.
I ONLY SAY THAT IN REGARD TO, HE MIGHT HAVE FORGOTTEN.
BECAUSE WE DO KNOW HOW MANY TIMES HE DID SIMILAR THINGS
SO HE MIGHT'VE FORGOTTEN THAT PARTICULAR EPISODE SO SO
FAR, IT'S BAD BUT NOT OUTRAGEOUS.
THE SECOND PART IS MUCH WORSE.
THIS
IS THE OUTRAGEOUS PART.
HE SAYS:
SO IT IS A TRUMP LEVEL SQUIRREL MANEUVER.
LOOK AT HILLARY, LOOK AT THE DOSSIERS, URANIUM ONE, THE PRESS
IS BEEN WANTING KEVIN SPACEY TO ADMIT THAT HE IS GAY FOR DECADES
SO HE FINALLY ADMITS IN THIS CONTEXT AND SO THEY ARE
THRILLED ABOUT IT AND ANYBODY WHO IS REPORTING ABOUT
KEVIN SPACEY FOR ALL THIS TIME AND THEY ALL RUN WITH
HEADLINES ABOUT MY GOD, KEVIN SPACEY IS GAY.
KEVIN SPACEY WITH AN EMOTIONAL COMING-OUT STORY.
NO, THAT IS NOT THE STORY.
THE STORIES ABOUT THE ABUSE BUT IS ACTUALLY WAY WORSE THAN
AS A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE POINTING OUT TODAY BECAUSE NOW,
YOU'VE CONFLATED BEING GAY WITH PEDOPHILIA WHICH IS DISASTROUS.
I MEAN, SOME FOLKS MIGHT HAVE BEEN AGREED FOR HIM NOT
COMING OUT EARLIER.
THAT IS NOT MY BUSINESS AND YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT
OPINIONS ON THAT BUT WHEN YOU DO COME OUT IN DRAMATIC FASHION
AFTER YOU'VE BEEN ACCUSED OF SEXUALLY ASSAULTING A
14-YEAR-OLD, THAT'S A TERRIBLE TIME TO COME OUT AND THEN
TO SAY, IT'S OKAY, I'M GAY.
NO, DON'T SAY THAT.
THAT WAS SUCH A BAD MOVE ON HIS PART AND LOOK, BASED ON
THE APPLICATION THAT WE HAVE AND WHAT WE KNOW RIGHT NOW AT
THIS MOMENT REGARDING KEVIN SPACEY, IT'S NOT AS BAD AS
WHAT HARVEY WEINSTEIN HAS DONE BUT HIS APOLOGY REMINDED ME
A LOT OF HARVEY WEINSTEIN'S APOLOGY.
FACT, I THINK IT'S EVEN WORSE BECAUSE HARVEY WEINSTEIN'S
APOLOGY TRIED TO DEFLECT FROM WHAT HE DID IN
VICTIMIZING ALL THESE PEOPLE BY SAYING THAT HE WAS GOING TO
USE HIS TIME TO GO AFTER THE NRA.
REMEMBER, THIS WAS AFTER THE MASS SHOOTING THAT OCCURRED
IN LAS VEGAS AND I WAS SUCH A DISGUSTING ATTEMPT TO NOT
ONLY DEFLECT BUT MAKE THEM OUT TO BE A GOOD GUY, SOME SORT
OF HERO WHO IS GOING TO FIGHT FOR JUSTICE AND IN THIS
CASE, I FEEL LIKE SPACEY IS USING HIS SEXUALITY AS A SHIELD.
EXACTLY.
AND AS YOU MENTIONED, IT WORKED WITH SOME MEMBERS OF THE
MEDIA BUT NO, THIS IS A DISTRACTION.
THIS IS A WAY OF DEFLECTING AND I DON'T CARE IF HE IS GAY
OR STRAIGHT, WHAT HE DID TO A 14-YEAR-OLD
WAS BEYOND INAPPROPRIATE.
AND AT BEST, IT ACCIDENTALLY SMEARS OTHER GAY FOLKS.
AND THAT IS TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE AND SO LOOK, WHY DOES ANA
SAY IT IS NOT AS BAD AS WEINSTEIN?
WEINSTEIN HAS CHARGES OF RAPE AGAINST HIM.
SO THIS IS NOT,
THIS IS BAD, IT IS NOT AT THAT LEVEL AND THIS IS ONE PERSON,
WEINSTEIN, THAT WE HAVE AT THE MOMENT.
WEINSTEIN
HAS DOZENS AND DOZENS OF CASES.
HAVING SAID THAT, YES, HIS EXCUSE IS WORSE BECAUSE IT'S NOT
JUST ABOUT HIM, IT HURTS OTHER PEOPLE IN HIS COMMUNITY
THAT ARE OTHER HUMAN BEINGS, AND IT IS NOT RIGHT.
DON'T HIDE BEHIND THEM.