Morrissey has offered his thoughts on the recent sexual assault allegations that have surfaced against actor Kevin Spacey and producer Harvey Weinstein. In a new interview with German news site Spiegel Online, he questioned whether Spacey’s accuser was truly unaware of what might happen. “You have to wonder where the boy’s parents were,” Morrissey told reporter Juliane Liebert about the man who accused Spacey of sexual advances in 1986 when he was 14. At the time, Spacey was 26 years old. “You have to assume that the boy had an inkling of what might possibly happen.”

Morrissey added,

“I mean, I don’t know about you, but in my youth I was never in situations like that. Never. I was always aware of where things could go, and if you’re in somebody’s bedroom, you have to be aware of where it could lead to, and you have to say, ‘Well, why are we here? Why aren’t we downstairs in the lobby?’ So it doesn’t quite ring true to me, and it seems to me like he’s been unnecessarily attacked.”

He also went on to defend Weinstein, stating that victims may have changed their story based on the situation’s outcome.

“You also must wonder if people know exactly what’s happening, and they go along with it, but then when it’s happened, they find that they’re either really embarrassed or they didn’t really like it, so then they go reverse it and say, ‘I was ambushed, I was taken by surprise, I was dragged into the room.’ But if the incident had gone very very well, and they had enjoyed it and it had led to an incredible career, they wouldn’t mention it. I hate to be that cynical because I hate rape and I hate attack and I hate sexual situations that’s forced on a person against their will, but in many many situations you look at the circumstances and you think that the person who is called the victim is merely disappointed.”

Lastly, Morrissey asserted problems of underage sex in the music industry, but blamed groupies for pursuing artists.