(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)
Popular Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey has revealed the real reason he waited till he clocked the age of 58 before confidently coming out as gay -an announcement which shocked many.
Kevin SPcey who made the revelation before a New York court room during the resumption of his civil court case filed against him by actor Anthony Trapp said that he waited that long because his dad was ‘white supremacist neo-Nazi’
The actor, who came out as gay in 2017, said he didn’t do it sooner because of his childhood.
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He said: ”I grew up in a situation as a child where I wasn’t comfortable talking about these things. My father used to yell at me about the idea I might be gay because I was interested in the theatre.
”My father used to scream at me don’t be a F-word that is very derogatory to the gay community. It was very disturbing for me because I was beginning to discover my own sexuality. I think I had a degree of shame but I also I wanted people to remember the characters I was playin and not to know too much about me,” the actor added.
