Ex-Boston TV News Anchor Says Kevin Spacey Sexually Assaulted Her Son Last Year

A former Boston TV news anchor held a press conference Wednesday to share her son's allegation of sexual assault against Kevin Spacey.

Heather Unruh, an award-winning journalist who worked at the ABC-affiliated television station WCVB until 2016, was joined by her daughter, Kyla, and lawyer, Mitchell Garabedian, the attorney depicted in Spotlight. Her son, Spacey's alleged victim, was not present, and Unruh explained that the current climate is what spurred her son to give his permission for her to come forward about the alleged incident, which occurred last year.

In July of 2016, her 18-year-old son, she says, was sexually assaulted by Spacey inside the Club Car Restaurant on Nantucket. Unruh says her son, who was not of legal drinking age, told Spacey he was and that the actor "bought him drink after drink after drink."

"My son was a starstruck, straight 18-year-old young man who had no idea that the famous actor was an alleged sexual predator or that he was about to become his next victim," she said. "When my son was drunk, Spacey made his move and sexually assaulted him."

Unruh made it clear her son did not give consent and called Spacey's actions a criminal act.

"Spacey stuck his hand inside my son's pants and grabbed his genitals," she said through tears. "My son's efforts to shift his body to remove Spacey's hand were only momentarily successful. My son panicked, he froze. He was intoxicated."

Still, she says Spacey insisted her son join him at a private after-hours party for more drinking. When he got up to go to the bathroom, a concerned stranger at the bar approached her son. The woman "told him to run and he did. He ran as fast as he could" to his nearby grandmother's house, where he, "upset and afraid," woke up his sister and the pair called Unruh, who was in her Boston home. She joined them on Nantucket the next day.

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