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A Belfast man has said that he was sexually assaulted by actor Kevin Spacey in London.

Kris Nixon, 30, claims that two incidents occurred when he was working in a cocktail bar in the city in 2007.

He told Belfast Live: “I didn’t really have that much time to process it, it was just a second or two of, ‘What the f**k is happening?’."

Numerous allegations about the US actor have been made public since he was accused of making a sexual advance towards actor Anthony Rapp when he was 14.

Kris said that he was 20 at the time and working in a cocktail bar in Waterloo, near The Old Vic theatre where Spacey was artistic director.

He added: “Occasionally people from the theatre would come in. Spacey came in a couple of times when I worked there. I used to see him milling around.

“One evening there was a drinking session, a bit of a lock-in in the bar and then folk went to an after-party.

“I didn’t know it was at Spacey’s apartment, I know now it was.

“Myself and a girl I worked with that I was starting to see were invited to come round, so we went round to this hugely fancy apartment. I can’t even describe it. It was amazing."

He said that he sat on a sofa with the girl who at one point got up to get a drink.

It was then, Kris added, that Spacey sat beside him on the sofa and looked at him 'weirdly'.

The Belfast man claims: "He said: 'Is that your girlfriend?'.

“Then he reached over, grabbed my c**k through my trousers and said, 'I could blow you better than her'.

Kris said that he got up and left with the girl.

A few weeks later, he added that he was working in the same bar when the actor returned.

He said: “There was a basement storeroom, so I went down to the bottom of the stairs to get stuff. I heard someone coming down the stairs behind me and I turned around and it was him again.

“He was maybe two or three feet away from me, standing uncomfortably close.

“He grabbed my waistband, mumbled some sort of half apology and said he could make it up to me.

“I shoulder charged past him, went up the stairs, thinking, 'what the hell am I going to do? I’m at work, I can’t make a scene, I’ll get fired. No one's going to believe me anyway. What am I supposed to do?'.

“He came up a few minutes later to order a drink and I thought, sod it, so I told him to go f**k himself’.

“He walked away from the bar and I didn’t see him again for the rest of the night so I assume he left.

“I worked at the bar for another two months or so but I didn’t see him come in again.”

Kris moved back to Belfast in 2008, and said that he had been ‘conflicted’ over the experience.

He added: “I’ve talked about it occasionally to friends.

“I’ve been really conflicted about it for years because I know it’s an incredibly wrong thing - I didn’t give him permission to touch me sexually, he shouldn’t have done it - but it’s probably one of the most common crimes committed, sexual assault by a drunk guy groping a girl’s ass in a pub.

“So - am I supposed to feel like a victim? I’ve never known.”

But, he insisted, he had to speak out.

Kris said: “As soon as I woke up last Monday I saw the Anthony Rapp story, I thought, one, Wow, I recognise this and two, How incredibly brave he was to speak out.

(Image: Steve Mack/WireImage)

“I immediately came to the decision that I needed to as well. It felt like the right thing to do, it’s not an easy decision, it’s a very complicated decision but there are plenty more people that this will have happened to, whether it’s with Spacey or someone else.

“And the more people that speak out and the more stigma that’s chipped away from this sort of thing then the easier it is to address.

“Because it’s someone notable or famous there’s this association that that can’t have happened. I’ve always thought no one’s going to believe this but as the stories have come out in the past week, almost every single one of them has been a detail that’s resonated with me.”

Belfast Live has contacted Kevin Spacey's representatives for a comment.