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<p>Actor <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/kevin-spaceys-defense-team-to-call-actors-brother-adam-rapp-rent-co-star-tracie-thoms">Anthony Rapp</a> told jurors on Tuesday that seeing <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/kevin-spacey-trial-hears-from-witness-who-says-actor-groped-him-at-work">Kevin Spacey</a>, who he has accused of <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/kevin-spacey-anthony-rapp-sexual-assault-case-heads-to-manhattan-federal-court-after-years-of-legal-chaos">sexually assaulting him when he was a teenager</a> and is testifying against in a civil trial, is a daily struggle.</p>
<p>Rapp said that it’s so bad that even spotting Spacey in the security line prior to their Manhattan court proceedings felt “like being jolted with a cattle prod.”</p>
<p>“It was hard to breathe,” the 50-year-old <em>Rent </em>actor said on the stand, adding that the mere sight of Spacey made his “palms sweaty.”</p>
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Rapp said that it’s so bad that even spotting Spacey in the security line prior to their Manhattan court proceedings felt “like being jolted with a cattle prod.”
“It was hard to breathe,” the 50-year-old Rent actor said on the stand, adding that the mere sight of Spacey made his “palms sweaty.”
