Actor Kevin Spacey stated on Thursday he was “crushed” when he was accused of sexual assault, as he started giving proof in a London court docket.
The Oscar-winner advised jurors at Southwark Crown Court that he couldn’t consider that one of many complainants, who alleges Spacey assaulted him on as much as 12 events, would “stab me in the back”.
The 63-year-old is standing trial on a dozen prices of intercourse offences in opposition to 4 males between 2001 and 2013 once they had been of their 20s and 30s. Spacey has pleaded not responsible to all 12 prices.
The 4 accusers have stated Spacey aggressively groped them and in a single case carried out oral intercourse whereas they had been handed out, with the prosecution calling him a “sexual bully”.
His lawyer Patrick Gibbs advised the jury on Thursday that the complainants had reimagined consensual encounters “with a sinister spin” or, in some circumstances, merely “made up” their accounts.
Spacey, sporting a gray swimsuit, white shirt and lightweight blue tie, entered the witness field on Thursday and was requested about one of many complainants, who alleges the actor repeatedly grabbed his “private areas” once they had been alone.
The lawyer, Gibbs, requested about his relationship with the person, to which Spacey stated: “I liked him greatly. We had a good time together. We laughed a lot.”
The actor described the complainant as “funny and charming and flirtatious”. Asked if he himself was flirtatious, Spacey replied: “Yeah. I’m a flirt, I’m a big flirt.”
He stated that as his relationship with the complainant developed over time “it became somewhat sexual”.
Spacey denied that it was non-consensual or aggressive, saying: “It didn’t happen in a violent, aggressive, painful way. It was gentle and it was touching and it was, in my mind, romantic.”
He additionally stated: “We never had sex together because he made it clear that he didn’t want to go any further and that happens at times and you just respect how far someone wants to go.”
Source: www.anews.com.tr
