Kevin Spacey has opened up about what he believes the public thinks of him, following recent comments suggesting he is "homeless".
In a new interview with The Telegraph, the 66-year-old reflected on both his financial struggles and living out of temporary rentals after years of legal turmoil drained his finances.
“The costs over these last seven years have been astronomical,” he told the publication. “I've had very little coming in and everything going out.”
He added: “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.”
Kevin Spacey said he is homeless. Credit: Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty
Spacey Starts From Scratch
The House of Cards star compared his current lifestyle to his early days in the business.
“In weird ways, I feel I'm back to where I first started, which is I just went where the work was,” he said. “Everything is in storage, and I hope at some point, if things continue to improve, that I'll be able to decide where I want to settle down again.”
His admission comes a year after he revealed in a separate interview with Piers Morgan that his Baltimore home, the last semblance of stability, was being lost to foreclosure.
“This week… my house is being sold at auction,” he said. “So I have to go back to Baltimore and put all my things in storage.” When asked why, he didn’t hold back: “Because I can’t pay the bills that I owe.”
Spacey said the debt amounted to “many millions” and revealed that bankruptcy had been “discussed” at one point, though he never filed.
Spacey was acquitted in a 2023 trial in the UK. Credit: Rosdiana Ciaravolo / Getty
Spacey Reflects On The Public
While the accusations against him, which included more than 30 allegations of misconduct and assault, led to his removal from his hit TV show and a dramatic fall from Hollywood’s A-list, Spacey maintains that many members of the public never turned on him.
He was found not guilty in a 2023 UK trial that stemmed from five charges, including four counts of sexual assault and one count of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent.
The Oscar-winning actor denied all the allegations, including those dating back to the 1990s in the U.S.
When asked if he felt he’d been the victim of a witch hunt in his interview with The Telegraph, Spacey replied: “Well, that proposes that people were deliberately doing something that they knew was false.
“I think it’s easy for people to decide how they feel about something without even putting an ounce of energy into actually investigating the truth,” he added. “Do I think journalists write stories that are deliberately mean and unnecessary, and untrue? Yes.”
Still, Spacey said: “I have never felt that way about the public, who have talked to me, been supportive, said the most incredible things when they’ve stopped me in the street.
"I have always felt the public was on my side, and understood what had happened, and were not buying into things that they were reading. And I have always been enormously grateful for that," he added.