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Kevin Spacey is addressing the upcoming documentary “Spacey Unmasked,” which is about to cowl the allegations of abuse that he has confronted lately.
Spacey wrote on his X web page on Thursday that all through this previous week, he’s “repeatedly requested” that Channel 4 – the UK-based community set to air the doc – give him multiple week “to reply to allegations made in opposition to me courting again 48 years and supply me with enough particulars to analyze these issues.”
“Channel 4 has refused on the idea that they really feel that asking for a response in 7 days to new, anonymized and non-specific allegations is a ‘honest alternative’ for me to refute any allegations made in opposition to me,” he wrote.
The embattled actor continued to put in writing that he “won’t sit again and be attacked by a dying community’s one-sided ‘documentary’ about me of their determined try for rankings.”
“Every time I’ve been given the time and a correct discussion board to defend myself, the allegations have failed underneath scrutiny and I’ve been exonerated,” he added earlier than directing his followers to his X web page this weekend to see his response after the documentary airs.
When contacted by CNN by e-mail, Channel 4 commented that the actor “has been given enough alternative to reply.”
Commissioned by Channel 4 and streaming on Max within the US, “Spacey Unmasked” is a two-part docuseries that can look at Spacey’s profession and subsequent fall “amid allegations of inappropriate sexual habits,” based on Variety. (Max and CNN are each owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.)
CNN has reached out to Max and a consultant for Spacey for remark.
Final yr, Spacey was discovered not guilty of seven counts of sexual assault and two counts of different critical sexual offenses following a four-week trial in London’s Southwark Crown Courtroom. The allegations lined a interval between 2004 and 2013, when Spacey served as inventive director on the Outdated Vic theater within the British capital. He beforehand pleaded not responsible to the entire prices.
In 2022, a New York jury discovered Spacey not liable for battery in a trial wherein actor Anthony Rapp alleged Spacey picked him up and laid on prime of him after a celebration in 1986.
Spacey additionally confronted legal prices of indecent assault and battery in reference to a July 2016 incident, the place he was accused of groping a younger man at a Nantucket bar. He had pleaded not responsible on the time and in 2019, Massachusetts prosecutors dropped the case after the person who accused him of assault pleaded the fifth on the witness stand.
Spacey has gained two Academy Awards, for his roles in 1995’s “The Regular Suspects” and 1999’s “American Magnificence.” He has returned to acting lately after leaving “Home of Playing cards,” the Netflix collection wherein he starred for 5 seasons, earlier than being fired in 2017 over allegations of misconduct on and off the set.
“Spacey Unmasked” will air on Channel 4 within the UK on Might 6 and seven.