'I would never, ever trivialize or condone abuse of any kind,' he said in a statement to BuzzFeed News.
In a statement to BuzzFeed News via his publicist, McKellen said his thoughts on the matter were"clumsily expressed."
"As part of an extended podcast recently, I suggested that if closeted people were instead open about their sexuality they wouldn’t abuse others. That, of course, is wrong," he said."My intention was to encourage the LGBT audience I was addressing to be proud and open about their sexuality. In doing so, my point was clumsily expressed. I would never, ever trivialize or condone abuse of any kind.
In his comments during the podcast interview, McKellen said it was because Spacey and Singer — who has been openly gay throughout his career in Hollywood — were closeted that they allegedly sexually abused boys. "Most of them were in the closet. Hence, all their problems as people and their relationship with other people," he said during the interview."If they had been able to be open about themselves and their desires, they wouldn’t have started abusing people in the way they’ve been accused."
In January, Spacey pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting an 18-year-old man at a Nantucket bar in 2016. Two years earlier in October,
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