Kevin Spacey statement posted on Twitter, 15 minutes ago

[moriah]

85. My dad was bi, and had the added trauma...

... of repeated violent sexual assault from older boys prior to puberty while in the Stonewall Jackson Training School in North Carolina. And at 12, after he finally agreed he would go to school rather than suffer rape, he was a victim of statutory rape by the older neighbor lady who he learned molested every boy in the neighborhood. He thought he was the luckiest boy in the world after that one and immediately showed what he learned to his 11 year old girlfriend.

He could really only be sexual with men while high -- meth. Or very very drunk. And was high and drunk a lot while my mom was working on the road to support all of us.

That doesn't excuse the fact he molested my older sister. Not that he was drunk and high when he did it. Not that he was under 25 himself, she was less than 12 and he was over 18. Not that he had some extremely warping experiences that perhaps made him not understand viscerally the horror of what he was really doing until being told my sister had cried when she told my Mother.

Yes, he admitted it and owned his actions. He didn't call her a liar. That's the only thing he and Spacey have done right in this (edit: Spacey may not have admitted it, but he didn't deny it or call his victim a liar).

But NOTHING excuses molesting a child.