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.