![]() ![]() ![]() The actor added that he hadn’t planned to come out in response to the Buzzfeed story but had hoped it would at least “do something at least positive put the question of my sexuality behind me.” “The gay community had been pressuring me for a very long time about coming out,” he said. Spacey added that he had been planning to come out publicly for a long time and had considered doing it two years earlier at an event (which he didn’t name). “I understand why people responded the way they did to it,” Spacey said. He said some members of his team disagreed with the course of action but they took a vote and ultimately released a statement in which Spacey revealed he was gay. That it would be a PR nightmare if I didn’t.” “People were being professionals and they did their best,” Spacey told the U.K, court on Thursday but added: “I was under a lot of pressure that I had to say something. court on Thursday that after he was approached by Buzzfeed regarding Rapp’s allegation he had a series of calls with his team – including lawyers, publicists and business managers – to decide how to respond. GLAAD also criticized Spacey, with the org’s CEO Sarah Kate Ellis saying at the time: “Coming-out stories should not be used to deflect from allegations of sexual assault.” Spacey set out the circumstances surrounding the statement, which was widely condemned by peers at the time including Billy Eichner, Zachary Quinto and Rose McGowan.
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