Kevin Spacey talks about getting out of Hollywood jail after sexual assault trials

Los Angeles, June 29 (IANS) Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey has said that he is getting back to normalcy from Hollywood jail after he was derailed by dozens of accusations of sexual misconduct and harassment.

The Oscar-winning actor said that he had won “in every court we’ve gone into with a jury”, reports ‘Variety’.

He told Bill Maher on his ‘Club Random’ podcast. “I feel much more welcomed, and I think that things are moving in the direction that we hoped they were moving in”.

He went on, “There are certain cases where part of something is true, but it’s been rethought, it’s been redesigned, or it’s been entirely made up, certainly in the case of Anthony Rapp, which is a case that we won in federal court in New York”.

As per ‘Variety’, Anthony Rapp’s allegations that Spacey assaulted him in his New York apartment while he was a teenager appeared in a 2017 Buzzfeed article and triggered the chain of allegations that led to Spacey’s career implosion.

Anthony Rapp later filed a $40 million civil lawsuit for sexual assault and battery, but a New York jury found Spacey not liable on all counts. Bill Maher was relatively sympathetic to Spacey during the interview, noting that he was not deeply immersed in the particulars of the various allegations against the star and couldn’t challenge him on every point of fact, but he did share that he thought some claims had merit.

He said, “I’m not going to lie to you, I go by numbers with scandals. If it’s like one person, I’m always like, I don’t know if I wasn’t in the room”.

He added that in Spacey’s case, “There’s too much smoke to be no fire”. Spacey admitted that his behavior had crossed a line.

The actor said, “I never said there was no fire. It just wasn’t a raging forest fire. It was a small kitchen fire that could have been put out with an extinguisher. I hit on a lot of guys”.

Bill Maher argued that Spacey “should have gotten some punishment”. However, the comedian added that Spacey had “paid a lot” for his offenses.

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