Former Boston news anchor says a loved one was assaulted by Kevin Spacey
A former Boston news anchor is speaking out after reports of inappropriate sexual advances on a minor by actor Kevin Spacey.
When the Harvey Weinstein scandal surfaced earlier in October, Heather Unruh, who served as an anchor for WCVB (Channel 5) for 15 years, tweeted that Kevin Spacey “assaulted a loved one.”
https://twitter.com/HeatherUnruh/status/918909971001217025
Unruh’s tweet gained renewed attention when, in a Buzzfeed article published Sunday, actor Anthony Rapp said that Spacey climbed on top of him in a bedroom at a party when Rapp was 14 and Spacey was in his 20s.
Spacey issued an apology to Rapp, saying he did not remember the encounter Rapp described, but that if he did do what Rapp said, he owed him “the sincerest apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior.” Spacey also said that while he has had romantic relationships with both men and women during his life, he now chooses to “live as a gay man.”
— Kevin Spacey (@KevinSpacey) October 30, 2017
Unruh, who left WCVB in 2016, told The Boston Globe on Oct. 13 that the incident involving Spacey and her loved one happened last summer at a restaurant and that Spacey did something under a table that was “completely unexpected, completely inappropriate.”
Unruh declined to provide further details other than to tell the Globe, “If a woman who saw what happened didn’t tell [the alleged victim] to run while Spacey got up to go to the bathroom, I don’t even want to think about what would’ve happened.”
On Monday, Unruh tweeted that her loved one would “speak when ready.”
https://twitter.com/HeatherUnruh/status/925086704716992513
Unruh could not be reached for comment at the time of this article’s publication.
