Kevin Spacey makes humble admission after becoming homeless seven years after sexual assault scandal
Topics: Celebrity, Hollywood, Kevin Spacey, London, US News
Ellie Kemp
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Topics: Celebrity, Hollywood, Kevin Spacey, London, US News
Kevin Spacey has detailed how his relationship with fame has changed since becoming homeless.
Hollywood turned its back on the Broadway-turned-movie star when he was hit with no less than 30 sexual assault allegations between 2017 and 2022.
The double Oscar winner was once considered an icon, making a name for himself in the eighties and going on to front hits including American Beauty, Se7en, and Horrible Bosses.
He was dropped from Netflix smash hit House of Cards in 2017 after the first lot of allegations emerged in the US.
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Spacey has always denied the allegations against him.
Then in 2022, he was charged with four fresh 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.
Yet the damage was already done. Since, the actor revealed he is 'homeless' seven years on from the ordeal.
He told The Telegraph in an interview published on Wednesday (November 19),: “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.”
Spacey also made a humble admission about his life after A-list fame. He detailed the surprising reason he's now 'so much happier and comfortable' despite his world being turned upside down.
Spacey recalled performing in the 1986 play Long Day's Journey into Night with prolific actor John Lemmon in London.
As the pair walked from the Theater Royal to their hotel, Lemmon was 'stopped 35 times' by fans demanding photos and autographs.
"I said to him, ‘Does that bother you? You must have been stopped many times,'" Spacey told the Telegraph.
"And he said, 'Listen, a**hole, try to remember this if you ever become famous. It might be my 65th time, but it’s their first.’"
Those wise words stuck with Spacey, who only recently seems to have properly taken them on board.
"That was such a beautiful way to recognize that it wasn’t about him, it was about them. And I wish that I had kept that closer to my heart in my own experience with fame," he said.
The Superman Returns star then admitted he was 'to some degree... always a jerk' at the height of his fame.
Insisting he 'tried not to be a jerk,' he continued: "People were stopping and I always had somewhere to go, and I think I was always putting people in lanes - he wants this, she wants that, something from me.
"But now my relationship with fame is very much changed, and I’m back to that ‘twist of Lemmon’, as I like to call it."
He added that he is 'so pleased' to take time to 'meet people and have conversation with them'.
And while he might have been shunned by the mainstream entertainment industry, he says he is 'stopped all the time in many different places, in many different circumstances, and people are so kind and so generous'.
“And I think that was not correct to put people in lanes, and not right to remember what Lemmon said, which was, it’s about them, not about you," he added.
"And that’s been such a delightful readjustment to fame in the last seven years. I’m so much happier and more comfortable."
Spacey added he is no longer 'putting on a hate and ducking out of buildings'.
"I’m walking with my head high, no glasses on my face, no hat, nothing to hide," he resolved.