Kevin Spacey claimed in his interview with Piers Morgan he had only ever met Prince Andrew once when he visited Buckingham Palace in September 2002. The 64-year-old actor went on to say: “I had never met him before and have not seen him since” after he was pictured with the royal and even snapped sitting next to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell on a throne. But the Mirror can reveal that is not the case – as just five months later the American Beauty star was pictured at a party at London’s Billingsgate Market following a benefit performance to raise funds for the Old Vic Theatre in February 2003, the same year Spacey was appointed artistic director, a role he held until 2015. Speaking out about being pictured with Prince Andrew and Maxwell in 2002 when questioned about it on Piers Morgan Uncensored on Tuesday night, Spacey said he “wasn’t friends” with Prince Andrew and claimed to have only met him that once. Explaining how the Buckingham Palace pictures came about, he said: “Let me try to put it into context before I even get to that. In 2002, I got a call from President Clinton, who I had become friends with over many years, inviting me to come with him on an eight-day humanitarian trip that he was going to make to Africa and South Africa. I thought it was an incredible opportunity. And apparently, he was not having great success with getting people to say yes, because it wasn’t one night in New York, it was eight days in Africa and South Africa.” He continued: “The fact that it was primarily to raise awareness and prevention for AIDS, and particularly for mothers who had HIV to get the medication they needed to not pass it onto their children, so I said yes, absolutely. “In September of 2002, we took off from New York and we went to Ghana and Mozambique and Zimbabwe and Rwanda and Johannesburg and Cape Town. This was one of the most incredible experiences I have ever had. The doctors and nurses that we met, what we learned about how they were treating patients, the economic development that the President was also talking about in terms of Africa and where it was going to go in the future, the people we met.” Spacey says he spent an “extraordinary” day with Nelson Mandela which “meant so much to me.” Then President Clinton was invited by then-British Prime Minister Tony Blair to give a speech at the Labour Party Conference that year, which was held in Blackpool. He continued: “So, we flew then to London, and the President said to me, ‘I am going to go to Buckingham Palace tomorrow to see Prince Andrew, do you want to come?’ I said, ‘Sure’. So I’m a part of the President’s party and there must’ve been, I think there were 21 guests of the Clinton Foundation when we went to Africa and South Africa. So 18 or so people came to Buckingham Palace that morning. “We were wandering through, and people brought us into the throne room, and I sat down, and a bunch of people came and sat down next to me, and a bunch of pictures were taken. Then we went up and we met Prince Andrew. I had never met him before and have not seen him since, so that’s the context. Then the President and I went up to Blackpool.” Asked if Prince Andrew had ever reached out to him about the trip to Buckingham Palace, Spacey replied: “I heard a report about that, but at no time did anyone ever contact me on his behalf. As I say, I’m not friends with him, I never saw him after that day.” Probed about the scandal engulfing Prince Andrew, Spacey refused to talk about it and told Piers: “I don’t know anything about it. I’m not going to talk about someone else’s scandal. My point is, that I had enough accusations of my own to deal with, I don’t need to inherit someone else’s.” The Mirror has reached out to Buckingham Palace for further comment on this story. Elsewhere in the groundbreaking interview, Spacey admitted to admitted to being “too handsy” and “touching someone sexually” despite the individual not wanting him to. The actor was accused of sexual misconduct in 2017 but found not guilty in a 2022 New York lawsuit. He was acquitted of sexual assault charges in a separate London trial in 2023. However, he is due to face a civil trial in the UK, likely in early 2025, over a lawsuit by another man claiming Spacey sexually assaulted him. Spacey has denied all allegations. Follow Mirror Celebs on TikTok , Snapchat , Instagram , Twitter , Facebook , YouTube and Threads Do you have a story to sell? Get in touch with us at [email protected] or call us direct 0207 29 33033
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