For those of you who are avid readers of 2ov, you might remember meeting Kevin Spacey’s brother back in 2015.

Resembling Rod Stewart, we wrote about how he makes his money as a impersonator of the British rocker. You can read all about that here.

At that time, there were a lot of rumours about the two’s relationship, but never anything concrete.

However, since multiple allegations of sexual abuse by Spacey have been released, Randy Fowler has spoken out, reports Daily Mail:

Scrawled on the photograph, in fading ink, is a cheery message to his older brother Randy: ‘I will invite you to the Academy Awards when I go!’

If the inscription seems optimistic and a touch naive, it was, says Randy, written against a background of dark family secrets and lies – a ‘world of deviancy and betrayals’ that Spacey’s brother claims gives a chilling insight into the American Beauty star’s spectacular fall from grace last week amid claims he sexually molested men throughout his career, including a 14-year-old boy.

This picture [below] is the moment my brother turned into this creature called Kevin Spacey, says Randy, 61. ‘And that creature turned into a monster whose whole life was a lie.’

He carries on:

‘Yes, Kevin has been more successful than me financially and professionally, but I’ve learned to cope with my demons and I don’t think he ever came to grips with his,’ Randy says sadly.

Kevin, born Kevin Spacey Fowler, was the youngest of three children.

The boys’ elder sister Julie, now 66, fled home at 18 and married a Scottish former football player, Ian Keir.

Their father, Geoff Fowler, was a writer for technical magazines but was frequently out of work, moving the family ten times before Kevin was 14.

The family moved to Los Angeles when Spacey, who was born in South Orange, New Jersey, was a toddler.

In one of Spacey’s many interviews, he refers to his childhood, saying: ‘When some people think of home they think of a place where they grew up and had all their Christmas dinners and family gatherings. I don’t have that.’

Their parents:

Randy says Kevin’s careful description of his past was a calculated ‘reinvention’ to mask the horror of their childhood.

‘Our father was a Neo-Nazi who had a photograph of Adolf Hitler on the mantelpiece. He had swastika armbands, the lot. At one point he even grew a Hitler moustache.

‘He was a violent and abusive man who would whip us with a riding crop if we were out of line. We lived in a house of horrors.’

The abuse turned to terror when Randy was 14. ‘That’s when Dad raped me for the first time. He pushed my face down into the pillow. I was screaming.

‘I heard Mum at the door and I begged for help but she walked away. I have never felt so alone.’

Asked about whether his other siblings were abused, Fowler refused to answer:

‘That is for them to discuss if they want to. But when I saw Kevin had been accused of molesting a boy of 14, the same age I was when Dad molested me, a chill ran down my spine.’

However, he did reveal more about the weird relationship they had with them:

‘Feelings were never discussed. Our father, who we nicknamed The Creature, would rant about Nazi stuff for hours. There were times we didn’t have enough food on the table and went hungry.

‘He took us on holiday to a nudist colony. What sort of father takes his kids to a nudist colony?

‘In his office, Dad had books of child pornography.

And what about Kevin?

‘Kevin was a shy, quiet child, a mummy’s boy. He was sweet but didn’t stand out from the crowd. We built forts, rode bikes, escaped outside as much as we could.

‘He was a natural on stage. He loved the attention. He loved playing at being someone else.

‘Once he started acting he realised the power he had, it transformed him. He created the character of Kevin Spacey but it masked a monster.’

Spacey thrived on complex, sinister yet utterly mesmerising characters such as politician Francis Underwood in House Of Cards and crime boss Keyser Soze in The Usual Suspects.

‘Fans love the sinister characters he plays, but what they don’t realise is he’s not acting, that’s really him. When he changed his name his life started to become a lie.

‘He became a ticking time bomb. He hid behind a mask of fame. The richer and more famous he got the more he lived a lie. The world fell under his spell but I’ve long suspected there is a dark side to him.

‘He has reinvented himself constantly and I believe it was to forget the horrors of our childhood.’

No wonder Spacey is the way he is – although it’s really no excuse for his behaviour. There’s a whole lot more juice, which you can read about here.

[source:dailymail]