Kevin Spacey Is Accused Of Molesting A Boy…. Then Makes Surprising Announcement Of His Own

Kevin Spacey has been accused of sexually molesting a teen boy…

He responded by coming out as gay.

I have absolutely no idea how he thought this was the appropriate response.

According to this:

“Star Trek: Discovery” actor Anthony Rapp claims Kevin Spacey got sexually aggressive toward him when he was only 14 years old, and Spacey has responded by apologizing and coming out as gay.

Rapp told BuzzFeed News the incident occurred in 1986 … the 2 were both on Broadway at the time. Rapp says Spacey told him he was having a party and invited him.

Rapp says he got bored and retreated to the bedroom to watch TV. He said Spacey came in the room and appeared drunk, then “picked me up like a groom picks up the bride over the threshold. But I don’t, like, squirm away initially, because I’m like, ‘What’s going on?’ And then he lays down on top of me.”

Rapp says Spacey was holding him down as he struggled to get away, adding, “He was trying to seduce me.” He eventually got away and left.

Spacey, now 58, responded on social media, saying, “I have a lot of respect and admiration for Anthony Rapp as an actor. I am beyond horrified to hear his story. I honestly do not remember the encounter, it would have been over 30 years ago. But if I did behave as he describes, I owe him the sincerest apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior …”

Spacey went on to say, “The story has encouraged me to address other things about my life,” adding, “I have had relationships with both men and women. I have loved and had romantic encounters with men throughout my life, and I choose now to live as a gay man.”

Seriously?

Here’s his whole statement.

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— Kevin Spacey (@KevinSpacey) October 30, 2017

Does he think being gay and drunk excuses sexual misconduct with a minor?

……..Is he stupid?

The negative backlash has already begun:

Kevin Spacey picked the worst time and way possible to come out as gay … according to Billy Eichner, who calls the actor’s statement “disgusting.”

Spacey said he is now choosing “to live as a gay man” … in an apology to actor Anthony Rapp, who claims when he was 14, Spacey tried to molest him. Shortly after that, Eichner — who’s openly gay — said, “That Kevin Spacey statement. Nope. Absolutely not. Nope.”

The “Billy on the Street” host went on to blast Spacey in a Twitter rant that included him saying Spacey “invented something that has never existed before: a bad time to come out.”

His beef is clearly with Spacey connecting his alleged molesting of a teenager to his being gay. Billy, and many others, say Spacey’s doing serious damage to the LGBT community … and they’re letting him know it.

But honestly I hesitate to make jokes because the Spacey statement is truly disgusting, irresponsible and dangerous. Ok goodnight!

— billy eichner (@billyeichner) October 30, 2017

Spacey: “I’m gay.” pic.twitter.com/RPHzNT9i62

— Randy Perry (@youdiejoe) October 30, 2017

Nope to Kevin Spacey’s statement. Nope. There’s no amount of drunk or closeted that excuses or explains away assaulting a 14-year-old child.

— Dan Savage (@fakedansavage) October 30, 2017

It’s not about what he said. He shouldn’t have tried to fuck a middle school student when he was 26.

— Maxwell Dubler (@maxdubler) October 30, 2017

No no no no no! You do not get to “choose” to hide under the rainbow! Kick rocks! https://t.co/xJDGAxDjxz

— Official Wanda Sykes (@iamwandasykes) October 30, 2017

Spacey’s shorter statement pic.twitter.com/I8OOMaVkYU

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 30, 2017

Ashamed to have been accused of bank robbery- I forget if I did that- but this is a good time to let you all know; I am Jewish.

— Moshe Kasher (@moshekasher) October 30, 2017

WOOF.