Pre-Scandal, Kevin Spacey Planned to Come Out If He Won an Emmy in 2016 [Video]

Kevin Spacey, whose alleged sex crimes are the subject of a new two-part documentary “Spacey Unmasked” that debuts Monday on Max, said he had planned to come out as gay quite differently than the way it actually happened.

In a video shared to YouTube on Friday, British podcaster Dan Wootton asked Spacey about the “infamous” coming-out statement he made in 2017 after being accused of sexual assault by actor Anthony Rapp when the “Rent” star was a minor.

“Oh you mean when I tripped over my hockey stick and came tumbling out of the closet?” replied Spacey who admitted it wasn’t “the most graceful” way to go about it.

“It was was terribly timed and thought out,” he said, explaining that he’d been working with manager Evan Lowenstein on “finding a way out of the closet.”

Added the actor, “But after being fiercely closeted for so long I had no …