A former Boston news anchor has accused Kevin Spacey of sexually assaulting her son in 2016 in Nantucket, Entertainment Weekly reports. Former WCVB anchor Heather Unruh said that Spacey put his hands down her then 18-year-old son’s pants at a restaurant on the Massachusetts island.
“I want to see Kevin Spacey go to jail,” Unruh said in a press conference on Wednesday. “I want to see Kevin Spacey have the hand of justice come down on him, not just for my son but for the many others who have yet to speak their truth.”
In a tweet from nearly a month ago, Unruh hinted at her connection to Spacey, writing, “I was a Kevin Spacey fan until he assaulted a loved one. [It’s] time the dominoes fell.”
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
The post preceded actor Anthony Rapp coming forward on Oct. 29 with the first sexual abuse allegation made against Spacey. Since then, at least 13 men have publicly shared their own inappropriate experiences with the (possibly former) House of Cards star.
According to The Boston Globe, Unruh’s son’s encounter with Spacey began with the actor plying him with alcohol. An unknown woman reportedly saw the teenager after Spacey touched him and when Spacey was using the bathroom, she told Unruh’s son to “run away.” The boy fled to his grandmother’s house nearby.
“I don’t know how much she saw,” Unruh said of the intervening woman. “I don’t know who she is. She saw Kevin Spacey put his hand in my son’s pants. What I do know was that she saw my son was very shaken and I would guess that she probably knew he was underage. He didn’t look 21, and I know that she…was disturbed enough by what she had seen to approach this young man who’s almost six feet tall and ask if he’s okay.”
Appearing alongside her lawyer Mitchell Garabedian, who was fictionalized in the film Spotlight for his work with victims of sexual abuse in the Catholic church, Unruh also claimed that other victims of Spacey have contacted her. “They feel a connection to me and my family because I came forward and spoke and a lot of them feel like they haven’t been able to speak,” she said. “Some of them want to but there are some who have been suffering for decades and haven’t told anybody until they told me…I think what this did was open up a wound and a lot of people are feeling it.”
BREAKING: Former Boston TV anchor @HeatherUnruh says Kevin Spacey sexually assaulted her 19-year-old son on Nantucket Island in July 2016.
She announced the allegations with her daughter and lawyer by her side. @cbsboston pic.twitter.com/4zwWDl4VvK— Anaridis Rodriguez (@Anaridis) November 8, 2017
Unruh also revealed that she believes Spacey has “at least” one other victim from Nantucket. Her son reportedly filed a report with Nantucket police, who cannot confirm or deny the report’s existence.