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A bizarre exchange took place in a British court on Friday at Kevin Spacey’s sex assault trial where described one of his accusers’ allegations as “absolute bollocks.”
Spacey was asked about claims from one of the four men he is accused of assaulting in the U.K. between 2001 and 2013 in which the alleged victim said the Oscar-winner painfully grabbed his crotch “like a cobra.” When Spacey called the man’s version of events “bollocks”—a British curse word for testicles which is also used to describe something as nonsense—prosecutor Christine Agnew replied: “Yep—because that’s exactly where you did grab him, isn’t it?”
“Really?” Spacey said in response, The Independent reports, before asking the judge: “Did he accuse me of grabbing his bollocks?” The judge in turn asked Spacey to respond to the question, to which he ultimately answered: “I did not.”