Kevin Spacey testified in a New York courtroom Monday that he never made a sexual pass at the actor Anthony Rapp, who has sued, claiming the Academy Award-winning actor tried to take him to bed when he was 14.

Identifying himself as 鈥淜evin Spacey Fowler,鈥� the actor was asked about Rapp鈥檚 claims that a then-26-year-old Spacey picked him up like a groom does a bride after a 1986 party and put him on his bed before lying on top of him.

Rapp testified earlier in the trial that he squirmed out from underneath Spacey in the fully clothed encounter before fleeing the apartment, only to have Spacey follow him to the door and ask if he was sure he wanted to leave.

鈥淭hey are not true,鈥� Spacey said of the allegations.

Then he was asked if he has been private about his personal life over his career.

鈥淚 work in a very complicated family dynamic,鈥� he said, saying rants by his white supremacist and neo-Nazi father when he was a youngster led him to hate bigotry and intolerance.

Spacey said his father鈥檚 mind was likely damaged during unemployment resulting from an unsuccessful quest to be a creative writer.

鈥淢y father was a white supremacist and neo-Nazi,鈥� Spacey said. 鈥淚t meant that my siblings and I were forced to listen to hours and hours of my father lecturing us about his beliefs.鈥�

He said it was when 鈥渕y hatred of bigotry and intolerance began.鈥�

Spacey called it 鈥渉umiliating and terrifying when friends came over to the house鈥� because he was never sure what his father might say to them or to him.

鈥淓verything about what was happening in that house was something I had to keep to myself. We never, ever, talked about it. I have never talked about these things publicly ever,鈥� he said.

As Spacey became interested in theater, he said, he endured the screams of his father who 鈥渦sed to yell at me at the idea that I might be gay.鈥�

Spacey鈥檚 testimony began two hours after Judge Lewis A. Kaplan threw out a claim of intentional infliction of emotional distress after lawyers for Rapp finished their presentation of evidence. Kaplan said elements of the claim duplicate Rapp鈥檚 claim that he was a victim of assault and battery.

Spacey鈥檚 lawyer argued for dismissal of the case on the grounds that Rapp鈥檚 attorneys had failed to prove his claims.

Kaplan said the trial can proceed with assault and battery claims asserted by Rapp, a 50-year-old regular on 鈥淪tar Trek: Discovery鈥� on television. He was part of the original Broadway cast of 鈥淩ent.鈥�

an Oscar-winning actor popular on the Netflix series 鈥淗ouse of Cards鈥� when claims by Rapp and others in 2017 abruptly derailed his career.

Rapp was performing in 鈥淧recious Sons鈥� on Broadway in 1986 when he met Spacey.

several days earlier in the trial, which entered its third week on Monday.

鈥擳om Hays And Larry Neumeister, The Associated Press