(FILES) In this file photo taken on September 20, 2013 actor Kevin Spacey attends the BAFTA LA TV Tea 2013 presented by BBC America and Audi held at the SLS Hotel Beverly Hills, California. - Disgraced US movie star Kevin Spacey will have to pay almost $31 million to the production company that made the series "House of Cards" in which he starred until he was fired over allegations of sexual harassment, according to legal documents made public November 22, 2021. (Photo by Jason MERRITT / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)
Disgraced Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey has told those who care to listen that he is not a s3x addict amid allegations over his past behaviour with a 14-year-old boy.
The actor made the claim in documents filed ahead of time as he will bid to clear his name in court in New York next month against the victim, Anthony Rapp who is now 50.
Rapp will face off against Spacey in a civil suit in New York next month, in which he is seeking $40 million for battery and infliction of emotional distress. In a deposition in the case, the actor was asked by one of Mr. Rapp’s lawyers if he was in ‘limbo’ in late 2017, after the Buzzfeed article came out with Mr. Rapp’s claims in it.
Spacey said: ‘There was a period of time where I did not know what was going to happen.’ He found out on Thanksgiving that year he had been ‘removed’ from House Of Cards, Netflix’s adaptation of Michael Dobbs’s political novel, in which he starred as Machiavellian Congressman Francis Underwood.
By then, Spacey had already checked himself into rehab in Wickenburg, Arizona. Asked what type of rehab he was undergoing, Spacey said he was ‘not sure what degree I’m able to talk about the work I went there to do’.
But he added: ‘I can only tell you that I was as emotionally fragile as I had ever been in my life. I had just come out [as gay], after having been private about my personal life for more than 30 years. I was being accused of things in the media and I went to take care of myself.’
