Former TV Journalist Accuses Kevin Spacey of Sexually Assaulting Her 18 Year Old Son
Calls Spacey a ‘Sexual Predator’
Heather Unruh is accusing actor Kevin Spacey of sexually assaulting her 18-year old son in 2016. She says he did not report the alleged assault out of embarrassment but recently filed a police report and “handed over evidence to the Nantucket police.”
#BREAKING Former Boston TV anchor Heather Unruh says Kevin Spacey sexually abused her son in 2016. https://t.co/fiVykDe25F pic.twitter.com/2ANrScyjBd
— WPEC CBS12 News (@CBS12) November 8, 2017
Unruh, an award-winning former news anchor for a Boston TV station made the accusations at a press conference late Wednesday morning, several weeks after revealing she would be coming forward, and weeks before a Buzzfeed article exploded attention on to Spacey’s alleged inappropriate behaviors with underaged teens.
The #weinsteinscandal has emboldened me– #truth time. I was a Kevin Spacey fan until he assaulted a loved one. Time the dominoes fell pic.twitter.com/C0eiWEfHSO
— Heather Unruh (@HeatherUnruh) October 13, 2017
In Wednesday’s press conference Unruh described Spacey’s alleged actions, which she says included him putting his hands down her son’s pants and grabbing his genitals in a Nantucket bar.Â
‘I wanna see Kevin Spacey go to jail’: Heather Unruh on what she hopes to accomplish in coming forward https://t.co/ffml3q9iMt pic.twitter.com/nnlfobbd5k
— CBS Los Angeles (@CBSLA) November 8, 2017
“To Kevin Spacey I want to say this: Shame on you for what you did to my son,” Unruh said. She called his recent coming out statement “an appalling attempt to what you really are: a sexual predator.”
Former TV news anchor Heather Unruh delivers message to Kevin Spacey, who she alleges sexually assaulted her son. https://t.co/2zNeLyyCQS pic.twitter.com/xtvFF3O1QL
— NBC Boston (@nbcboston) November 8, 2017
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