Kevin Spacey came out as gay on Sunday while responding to a sexual assault allegation made by actor Anthony Rapp.

46 year old Rapp tells Buzzfeed he went to a party at Spacey’s house when he was 14 years old and that’s when the actor allegedly brought him to a bed and lay down on top of him once the other guests had left.

Rapp said he had the impression Spacey was drunk, pushed him away and then left the room. Spacey offered up a “sincere apology” for what he said would have been “deeply inappropriate drunken behavior.”

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“This story has encouraged me to address other things about my life,” Spacey said in a statement posted on Twitter. “I have loved and had romantic encounters with men throughout my life, and I choose now to live as a gay man.” 

Following Spacey’s apology, several Twitter users accused him of turning the child molestation allegation into a “coming out” story.

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