Kevin Spacey’s alleged sexual assault victim Anthony Rapp testified in a Manhattan courtroom yesterday.
He says watching American Beauty made him think of his own horrible experience with the actor.
“It felt unpleasantly familiar,” he told the courtroom per Associated Press. “It was upsetting.”
Rapp claims after partying with Spacey, he was invited back to his apartment. Rapp says he was watching television in one of the rooms.
“He picked me up like a groom picks up a bride,” he told the court, adding that he pushed “his pelvis into my hip.” He said he was able to get away from Spacey.
Spacey denies the allegations.
Jennifer Keller, one of Spacey’s lawyers referred to 14-year-old Rapp as a “troubled young man” who made up a story about the Hollywood actor.
“Thirty-six years ago … Mr. Rapp created a story,” Keller said, adding that Rapp has been “telling this story for sympathy, for attention and to raise his profile.”