In the wake of the explosive sexual assault accusations made against Kevin Spacey this week, the disgraced actor’s older brother has come forward to discuss their abusive home life growing up.
Spacey’s brother, Randall Fowler, tells The Daily Mail that their late father, Thomas Geoffrey Fowler, began sexually abusing him when he was 12 years old. Meanwhile, their mother, Katherine, was aware of the abuse, but did nothing.
“I constantly threatened my father that if he ever touched my brother, I’d confront my mother with what was going on and that would destroy the family,” Randall says, adding he “sacrificed” himself to protect Kevin.
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Randall, who describes the home as “a house of horrors,” claims their father was also a virulent anti-Semite, joining the American Nazi Party and growing a mustache to resemble Adolf Hitler’s. He was also a Holocaust denier who would regularly lecture his children about white supremacy.
“There was so much darkness in our home it was beyond belief,” Randall says. “Kevin tried to avoid what was going on by wrapping himself in an emotional bubble.”
He continues, “He became very sly and smart. He was so determined to try to avoid the whippings that he just minded his Ps and Qs until there was nothing inside. He had no feelings.”
He describes Kevin as an “empty vessel” who had no genuine relationships outside the family.
“Neither of us had a chance growing up with two such damaged parents,” Randall says. “I went through three marriages and 40 affairs.”
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Randall, who is currently estranged from Spacey, adds that he deliberately avoided having children out of fear they might “inherit the sexual predator gene.”
Thomas Geoffrey Fowler passed away in 1990 at age 68. When he was in the hospital, Randall, Kevin, and their sister, Julie, confronted their mother about the abuse they had suffered at the hands of their father.
“Our mother just sat in stony silence,” he recalls.
Kathleen passed away 13 years later, in 2003. After her death, Randall says, Kevin had her cremated under a false name, Ruby Stevens. Her ashes were divided into two star-shaped containers with a gold plaque bearing her favorite saying: “Everything will be fine.”
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Stache
The background is usually always the same. F*cked up hate and/or religion produces this kind of shit.
Paco
“Randall, who is currently estranged from Spacey, adds that he deliberately avoided having children out of fear they might “inherit the sexual predator gene.””
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I’ve never heard of the “sexual predator” gene. Is the brother insinuating that Kevin Spacey’s excuse for allegedly trying to molest a 14 year old boy is because he inherited this mythical gene from his father?
Guys that like them young and fresh often get caught up in questionable situations. They never learn. It’s always d!ck before reason.
Knight
As I mentioned before, there is a genetic disposition towards rape, namely one that triggers both aggression and sexuality. It’s not as simple as a “rape gene”, but it does exist https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/apr/09/risk-of-sex-offending-linked-to-genetic-factors-study-finds
Juanjo
“Randall, who is currently estranged from Spacey, adds that he deliberately avoided having children out of fear they might ‘inherit the sexual predator gene’.”
There is no predator gene but there is research that shows the children who have been abused often become abusers when they reach maturity. It is a tragic perpetuation of a cycle of abuse. There is a good discussion of the issue here – http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/179/6/482
baggins435
I’m so tired of hearing crap like “I kept quiet to keep from destroying the family.” No. Just no. You didn’t “save” anything, you contributed to maintaining a toxic and/or dangerous situation. There is a reason doctors amputate damaged limbs rather than leave them attached. It is so the rest of the body can get stronger and heal. The whole staying together for the sake of the family is sick and twisted. If you were a “family” in every sense of the word, there would be nothing to hide.
My parents stayed together while arguing constantly. Dad was not a fun person at all, he could kill a fun situation just by walking into the room. He never voiced praise, just put downs. We didn’t have many friends growing up and were never around their families. So, I did not know dads could joke around with their sons until I was an adult and saw a teen run up behind his dad and jump on his back. I was expecting the kid to get tossed to the ground and yelled at, instead the dad just grabbed the boy’s legs so he wouldn’t fall off and kept walking as both laughed. That was the first time I realized what other kids grew up with and it really hurt. So, again no Mr. Fowler, you didn’t sacrifice yourself to “save” anything.
Knight
You obviously missed the part where he was being sexually abused by his father. Many older siblings continue the abuse in the hopes that the abuser will not turn their attentions towards younger siblings. That is absolutely a sacrifice. Alice Walker wrote “The Color Purple” and actually illustrated that painfully well.
prarie pup
Seriously? Are you blaming the CHILD for the environment he grew up in? He says now he didn’t want to destroy the family, but you are a survivor of abuse so YOU should know there’s more to it than what he admits; abused children don’t tell because child abusers are master manipulators.
Whether directly said or clearly implied, the child is forced to believe THE BEATINGS ARE HIS FAULT and this belief is enforced by a litany of verbal abuse when the actual beatings aren’t going on. He’s told he’s fat, he’s stupid, he can’t do anything right, he’ll never accomplish anything, HIS OWN PARENT(S) tells him they hate him. This litany of degradation and beatings is PERSISTENT from birth.
The child is told if he wasn’t (fill in the blank) or if he didn’t (fill in the blank) these things wouldn’t be happening to him. What do you expect a six year old kid to about his situation? Get a job and move out?
The child hears these terrible things his whole life and BELIEVES it! The fact he’s so horrible is humiliating, and his horrible-ness proven by the fact he’s regularly beaten for it, so why on EARTH would he tell somebody about that when he’s brought it upon himself? Do you follow what I’m saying?
AceBear
This whole Kevin Spacey thing smells of Weinsteins team trying to divert attention. Kevin never raped anyone, or even kissed the boy .. The boy/old man that he now is, is obviously disturbed when he think this is any news.. and shame on the media trying to make it look like it’s the same or even close to the horror Weinstein obviously have been conducting!
I’ve been hit upon by older women and men in my younger years, wasn’t fun but they all respected a no, Well done Spacey for doing exactly that. You did respect the boys no, and there’s no reason to think he even had reason to think he was underage..
Donston
Please stop troll. No doubt you’re trying to purposely make all homosexuals look sick-minded. There’s nothing disturbed about Rapp. And Spacey didn’t “hit up” a younger guy. He sexually assaulted a 14-year-old (who frankly looked 10). And there have been rumors of Spacey being sexually aggressive towards underage guys and/or non-consenting males for years.
Heywood Jablowme
“there’s no reason to think he even had reason to think he was underage.”
Why do you assume THAT? The Broadway acting community is a relatively small one at any given time, and they were both starring in Broadway shows (the reason for the party in the first place). Any dedicated B’way fan who read the Times, Post or Daily News might have known how old Rupp was. Spacey UNDOUBTEDLY knew how old Rupp was.
DCguy
Here is the original article in Buzzfeed. Please scan down to see, circled in red, a picture of Anthony Rapp from the Playbill of the play he was in at the time.
I DARE you to tell me after seeing that picture that Spacey wouldn’t have known Rapp was a kid. He looks about 11 years old in that picture.
woodroad34
This explanation, however sad and unfortunate, still sounds like an excuse to do what Spacey did. ‘Oh let’s not fight the urges or background–it’s really not my fault.’
1EqualityUSA
We use thoughts like over-the-counter meds. Some overuse. Subconscious pain seeking chemical payoff, a powerful biochemical response produced with our mind. Normal, calm, and peaceful is unfamiliar to one who was reared in chaos. Returning to the poison will have the drama play out repeatedly in life, until the underlying hurt surfaces. A recurring bad dream that involves others. Naming the monster helps. This intricate machine will do what it needs to do to feel whole, though the definition may become warped. It is said that artists are tortured. Do they use thoughts to heal themselves, direct the current? Perhaps real art is conscious-limbic-centered-amygdala-action. woof.
DCguy
“””……“Randall, who is currently estranged from Spacey, …..””””
Well it sounds like he isn’t estranged any longer and that Kevin’s P.R. team reached out to him with an offer to pay him, AND got him set up for an interview with a large newspaper from the Large foreign city in which Kevin currently lives. All designed to paint Kevin as the victim now that his coming out didn’t deflect the story.
Yeah…… The “ESTRAGED” brother just happened to have a connection to a major London Newspaper to give an interview painting Kevin in an extremely sympathetic light.
Sorry to sound so cynical, but sheesh.
1EqualityUSA
I wonder if he pulled in pops for his role on House of Cards, the eyes of Underwood, dad. Oh, this is too much. I’m going back to puttering. Torrid. His performances were notable and warranted analysis. If we could all live life over, knowing more, how peaceful it would be; some wildflowers are beautiful. At least he’s smart enough to get help. The apology was a start. Once daily, Snares-B-Gone. I want to see what the lad does with the money won. Follow the money. Pain all around-’round, all ’round pain, they find each other, ’round, all ’round pain. Dark-passengers-B-Gone, all ’round pain. Unresolved pain is a cosmic hag, they find each other, called together. The adult slipped down the canyon wall, emotions steering, familiar hearing of pain; a song of long ago– distraction from a worse monster, he has yet to know. All around. In the Oval. All around. They find each other.