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Kevin Spacey has reflected on what he believes the public thinks of him after he was accused of sexual misconduct.
In 2022, the former House of Cards actor was charged with four counts of sexual assault and one count of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent in the UK.
The case went to trial the following year, where Spacey was found not guilty of the charges against him.
He's also faced allegations from American citizens that first surfaced back in 2017, some of which allegedly dated back to the 1990s. The Baby Driver star has denied all of the accusations against him.
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These claims had a catastrophic impact on Spacey's acting career, and he was dropped from House of Cards, which was one of Netflix's most popular series at the time of his axing.
While he's had some acting roles since, including in Michael Zaiko Hall's Peter Five Eight, Spacey is still suffering the financial repercussions of the allegations and declared himself homeless.
He told The Telegraph: "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."
Elsewhere in his chat with The Telegraph, the 66-year-old also revealed what he believes to be the public's opinion of him.
When asked if he felt he was the victim of a witch hunt, Spacey said: "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 continued: "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."
