Kevin Spacey claims King Charles offered him support

Fallen actor Kevin Spacey has claimed King Charles sent him a surprising message during his most recent sex scandal. Watch video

Fallen Hollywood star Kevin Spacey claims that he heard a “message of support” from King Charles during his recent sex scandal.

Spacey, who was artistic director of Londons’ Old Vic theatre between 2004 and 2015, was acquitted of nine sexual offence charges involving four men last July at Southwark Crown Court.

The two-time Oscar winner has denied all accusations made against him.

Kevin Spacey addresses the media gathered outside Southwark Crown Court after being found not guilty of sexual offences against four men in the UK between 2001 and 2013. Picture: Getty Images

In his first major in-studio interview since 2017, Spacey told Piers Morgan that he had heard from King Charles via a third party amid his legal woes.

While the actor claimed that he had not heard from the monarch directly, he said he had been passed a “message” after the allegations against him surfaced.

“No, I haven’t heard from him directly, no,” Spacey told Morgan, who pressed him on whether he had heard through “other people”.

Kevin Spacey claims King Charles offered him “support”. Picture: AFP

“That may be true. I heard a message, yes, and I’m very, very grateful for that,” Spacey responded, before confirming with a “yes” in response to Morgan’s question of whether Charles had offered “support”.

The actor added that it had “meant a lot to him” but that he didn’t want to “drag (Charles) into all of this”.

During the candid interview with Morgan, Spacey admitted to “being too handsy” and “pushing the boundaries”.

Spacey, who has never been convicted of sexual misconduct, revealed he is broke and is being forced to sell his home after having to pay millions in legal fees over a string of sexual assault allegations.

When Morgan raised the topic of consent, Spacey, 64, admitted that he had been “too handsy” in the past.

Kevin Spacey during his interview with Piers Morgan. Picture: Supplied

“Some people would say that that is criminal, that if you grope people in a sexual way against their wishes, that that is a crime,” Morgan said.

Spacey replied: “I personally — I have caressed people, I have been gentle with people. That is the way that I am.

“You’re making a pass at someone, you don’t want to be aggressive. You want to be gentle. “You want to see if they’re going to respond positively. So, I think the word (grope) is not a word that I associate with my experience.”

“If you’re being handsy, you’re groping people and they don’t wanna do it,” Morgan began, “then they should let you know they don’t wanna do it so that you can understand it’s non-consensual and stop,” Spacey said.

Kevin Spacey outside the Southwark Crown Court before his acquittal. Picture: AFP

Asked where he was currently living, the fallen star broke down briefly, saying he was uncertain and was having to put his belongings in storage as his house was “being foreclosed on”.

“So the answer to that question is, I’m not quite sure where I’m going to live now, but I have been in Baltimore since we started shooting House of Cards there,” Spacey said.

Spacey told Morgan he owed “many millions” after the sexual assault allegations derailed his once glittering career.

Kevin Spacey was once the toast of Hollywood. Picture: AFP

“I still owe a lot of legal bills that I have not been able to pay,” he said.

Spacey’s career came crashing down when actor Anthony Rapp came forward in 2017 to accuse the star of molestation when he was 14 and Spacey was 26.

Rapp accused Spacey of sexually abusing him in 1986 when they were both unknown Broadway actors.

A jury sided with Spacey in the resulting 2022 civil trial, finding he did not sexually abuse Rapp.

Spacey directly addressed the allegations in the Piers Morgan interview, saying he hoped Rapp would one day be able to accept that he had a “faulty memory” in relaying the events.

When asked by Morgan about being “emphatically cancelled” in Hollywood despite having been cleared of all charges, Spacey compared himself to the black-listed actors whose lives were “largely destroyed” after they were accused of being Communist sympathisers in the 1940s.

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