's career is hanging by a thread. His landmark show, House of Cards, has been scrapped by Netflix and his reputation has been left in tatters after a series of accusations regarding sexual assault and harassment have been aimed at the Hollywood star. The last few weeks have seen Spacey been accused of trying to sexually seduce a 14-year-old boy as well as a host of other stories regarding the actor's predatory nature.
Now, Spacey's brother, Randy Fowler, has come forward in a shocking interview where he says that his brother turned to acting and changed his name to hide a dark side after a childhood plagued by abuse and denials regarding his sexuality.
Speaking from his home in Idaho, Randy said:
“Kevin turned to acting as a little kid. He ditched the name Fowler and created the character of Kevin Spacey to mask a monster. It helped him hide from his demons.
“He struggled with his sexuality, always denying he was gay. On stage he pretended to be somebody else. It gave him power, transformed him.
“We grew up with abuse and neglect in a house of horrors. Our violent dad whipped me with a riding crop... I’ve never had children in case that evil personality could be passed on."
“Now it sadly seems one of us may carry those twisted genes and that person might be Kevin.
“His fans love the sinister characters he plays, but he’s not acting, that’s really him. He hid behind his acting career to maintain a secret sordid life and in reality he was a monster.
“I’ve long suspected there was a dark side to him. I just hope he gets the help he needs so nobody else is harmed by him.”
Randy says that Kevin has been trying to reinvent himself for years, saying that he takes part of Randy's life and fabricates them to make them sound like his own.
“He’d been trying to lie about who he was for years. In interviews he re-invented his entire childhood.
“He once claimed he’d broken an officer’s leg at military school — but that was me.
“Another time he said he burnt down a building at the back of our house — but that was me too when I burned our chicken coop."
The allegations against Spacey began last month when Star Trek actor Anthony Rapp alleged that Spacey tried to seduce him at the age of 14. Spacey issued an apology in which he announced that he was gay, leading to a wave of criticism in the direction of the actor.
Since the initial allegation, further people have come forward, including an actor who was working at the Old Vic when Spacey was the artistic director. A barman also claims that Spacey flashed him outside of a hotel and then handed over his £5,000 watch in order to keep him quiet.
Spacey's publicist announced that the actor was going to have treatment on Thursday. But on Friday, it was alleged that he sexually harassed eight of the House of Cards crew - with one of the victims claiming that they were sexually assaulted by him.
Randy, who is now a Rod Stewart impersonator and limousine driver, says that he fears that Spacey is turning into their father, who he alleges used to beat and rape him from a young age.
“Our father was a Nazi-loving monster who raped and beat me from the age of 14.
“When I heard about these allegations, I prayed history wasn’t repeating itself.”
It remains to be seen what will happen to Spacey now that more allegations seem to be coming out by the day, but it's difficult to see how he will revive his career after the severity of the situation that he currently finds himself in.
