Rapp says that he froze while the older actor lay on top of him and tried to “seduce” him, then managed to “squirm” away. “The older I get, and the more I know, I feel very fortunate that something worse didn’t happen,” he tells BuzzFeed. “And at the same time, the older I get, the more I can’t believe it. I could never imagine [that] anyone else I know would do something like that to a 14-year-old boy.” Spacey and his representatives did not respond to BuzzFeed’s multiple attempts to request comment.

Though Rapp is only now publicly naming Spacey, he has told versions of this story for decades, according to BuzzFeed. A number of Rapp’s acquaintances and his brother confirmed to the website that the actor has been speaking privately about his alleged encounter with Spacey since 1990. A version of story, with Spacey’s name redacted, was even printed in a 2001 interview with The Advocate. Bruce Steele, then the executive editor of The Advocate, confirmed to BuzzFeed that the magazine left out Spacey’s name.

BuzzFeed also cites an October 13 tweet from news anchor Heather Unruh which went viral in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein allegations. When approached by BuzzFeed for comment, Unruh declined to go into specifics.

In 2010, Spacey addressed the persistent rumors around his sexuality—though not anything about his purported relationships with younger men—in an interview with the Daily Beast. “I have not given up my right to privacy,” he said. “It’s just a line I’ve never crossed and never will. . . . No one’s personal life is in the public interest. It’s gossip, bottom line. End of story.” Rapp, who has been out of the closet since the early 90s, doesn’t linger on Spacey’s sexuality in his BuzzFeed interview—saying, simply, of the night in question, “I saw on [Spacey’s bathroom] counter next to the sink a picture of him having his arm around a man. So I think on some level I was like, Oh. He’s gay. I guess.”

Though rumors have been swirling around Spacey for years, Rapp is the first person to go on record with an allegation of predatory behavior. “Part of what allowed the Harvey situation to occur was that there was this witting and unwitting conspiracy of silence,” Rapp told BuzzFeed of his decision to finally go public. “The only way these things can continue is if there’s no attention being paid to it, if it’s getting forgotten.”