Kevin Spacey, actor accused of sexual misconduct, posts video for ‘suffering’ people

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Kevin Spacey, actor accused of sexual misconduct, posts video for ‘suffering’ people

 

FILE PHOTO: Actor Kevin Spacey arrives to face a sexual assault charge at Nantucket District Court in Nantucket, Massachusetts, U.S., January 7, 2019. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

 

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oscar-winner Kevin Spacey on Thursday appealed to people who were struggling with shame or depression not to take their own lives.

 

Spacey, who has largely disappeared from public view since being accused of sexual misconduct three years ago, made the plea in a Christmas Eve video titled "1-800 Xmas" that he posted on YouTube.

 

Filming himself walking in a park, Spacey said a lot of people had reached out to him in 2020 to share their struggles and some had spoken about wanting to end their lives.

 

"If you're suffering, if you need help, if you feel guilt or shame, if you're struggling with your identity or your back's up against the wall or if you feel there is no path for you. Whatever your situation, I promise you there is a path," he said.

 

"During the holiday and beyond, even if you don't feel it, there are people out there who understand and who can help. It does get better."

 

The video ended with a board for the suicide prevention hotline.

 

Spacey, once one of Hollywood's biggest stars, was dropped from "House of Cards" and removed from the movie "All the Money in the World" after he was accused in 2017 of sexual misconduct by more than 20 men.

 

Responding to the first accusation, Spacey said he could not remember the encounter actor Anthony Rapp described from 30 years ago but apologized for what he said "would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior." He also came out as gay.

 

Prosecutors in Massachusetts in 2019 dropped criminal charges against Spacey of indecent assault and battery involving an 18-year-old man in a bar in 2016. Spacey had pleaded not guilty.

 

The star, who won a best actor Academy Award for "American Beauty" in 2000, released brief videos around Christmas in 2018 and 2019 in which he spoke cryptically about his own situation.

 

(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Richard Chang)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-12-26

 

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[RichardColeman]

Any chance we could have a decent final series of 'House of Cards' now, and pretend the original final series was just a 'Dallas' dream sequence.

[Tropposurfer]

33 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

Any chance we could have a decent final series of 'House of Cards' now, and pretend the original final series was just a 'Dallas' dream sequence.

It was a great series !

[Tropposurfer]

Many years ago now, I worked in the Australian film industry in the actual onset shooting crew. There were a few high profile gay Aussie male actors who had reputations as being very inappropriate and predatory. I also witnessed the grooming of young boys/young men (16 and thereabouts) by a famous music video producer (deceased now). Common knowledge these 'assistants' were his 'followers' ... he used drugs and alcohol to assist in the grooming of these young boys.

Why is it so shocking to some that a gay man would be predatory when all around us from early childhood awareness of some sort of energy being present for men and women too we witness. Many, many men have also participated in deliberate predation on women? Objectifying them to the enth degree and it being 'ok' to do. Albeit it is more euphemistically called 'male seduction' and therefore proper and righteous.

[bendejo]

Too soon.  The fellow who metooed him is in a successful television series (Star Trek: Discovery).  The Star Trek fandom is legion, and to now have the actor known to be the guy who outed/meetooed Kevin Spacey will keep the scandal alive. 

Shut up and disappear, Kev.

 

 

[unblocktheplanet]

One of the best actors going. If his private life is illegal, that's what courts are for. But he should be judged for his acting in the court of public opinion, nothing else.

 

I'll be glad to see his next film or series.

Edited January 23, 2021 by unblocktheplanet
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