Actor Kevin Spacey has clarified his headline-making comments that he was living in hotels and Airbnbs because he has “no home.”
Spacey, an Oscar winner whose career was derailed by sexual assault allegations that surfaced in 2017, made the clarification in a video posted to Instagram on Sunday, following an interview with The Daily Telegraph on Nov. 19.
“I don’t usually make it my business to correct the media; if I did, I wouldn’t have time for much else,” Spacey said in a video posted on Instagram Sunday. “But in light of the recent articles claiming I am homeless, I feel the need to respond.”
During the interview, Spacey told The Telegraph, “I’m living in hotels, I’m living in Airbnbs, I’m going where the work is. I literally have no home, that’s what I’m attempting to explain.”
But in the Instagram video, Spacey said his clarification was not for the press, but for the “the thousands of people who have reached out over the past few days offering me a place to stay, or have just asked if I’m OK.”
“And to all of you, let me first say that I am truly touched by your generosity, full stop,” the actor added. “But I feel it would be disingenuous of me to allow you to believe that I am indeed homeless in the colloquial sense.”
Spacey was once one of the biggest stars in Hollywood thanks to films such as “L.A. Confidential,” “The Usual Suspects” and “Se7en,” and for his role as Frank Underwood in the Netflix drama “House of Cards.”
He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for “The Usual Suspects” and the Academy Award for Best Actor for “American Beauty.”
Following the allegations, Netflix cut ties with Spacey on the “House of Cards,” and his scenes in the Ridley Scott movie “All the Money in the World” were re-shot by the late Christopher Plummer, The Telegraph reported.
Spacey told the interview that his career remains in the building phase after he was cleared in two-high profile cases.
In 2022, Spacey was found not liable for battery in a civil case brought by stage and screen star Anthony Rapp, who accused Spacey of assault, battery and intentionally inflicting emotional distress when Rapp was 14.
In 2023, Spacey was cleared of nine charges stemming from allegations of sexual misconduct in a separate case in the United Kingdom.
While he’s been largely shunned by Hollywood for the past seven years, Spacey told The Telegraph that opportunities are slowly coming back.
“We are in touch with some extremely powerful people who want to put me back to work,” he said. “And that will happen in its right time. But I will also say what I think the industry seems to be waiting for is to be given permission – by someone who is in some position of enormous respect and authority.”
