Kevin Spacey has shared his thoughts on the public’s perception of him following accusations of sexual misconduct.
In 2022, the former House of Cards star faced legal charges in the UK, including four counts of sexual assault and one count of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent.
The trial took place the following year, resulting in Spacey being found not guilty of the allegations against him.
Spacey had also been accused by individuals in the United States, with claims going back to the 1990s surfacing in 2017.
The fallout from these accusations severely impacted Spacey’s career, leading to his removal from House of Cards, a highly popular Netflix series at the time.
Although Spacey has landed some roles since, such as in Michael Zaiko Hall’s Peter Five Eight, he continues to face financial difficulties due to the allegations and has described himself as homeless.
In an interview with The Telegraph, he stated: “The costs over these last seven years have been astronomical. I’ve had very little coming in and everything going out.”
“You get through it. In weird ways, I feel I’m back to where I first started, which is I just went where the work was. Everything is in storage, and I hope at some point, if things continue to improve, that I’ll be able to decide where I want to settle down again.”
“I’m living in hotels, I’m living in Airbnbs, I’m going where the work is. I literally have no home, that’s what I’m attempting to explain.”
During his discussion with The Telegraph, the 66-year-old actor shared his perspective on how the public views him.
When questioned about feeling targeted by a witch hunt, Spacey responded: “Well, that proposes that people were deliberately doing something that they knew was false.”
“I think it’s easy for people to decide how they feel about something without even putting an ounce of energy into actually investigating the truth. Do I think journalists write stories that are deliberately mean and unnecessary, and untrue? Yes.”
He added: “But I have never felt that way about the public, who have talked to me, been supportive, said the most incredible things when they’ve stopped me in the street.”
“I have always felt the public was on my side, and understood what had happened, and were not buying into things that they were reading. And I have always been enormously grateful for that.”