Kevin Spacey Confirms ‘Sexual Compulsive Behavior’ Diagnosis in ‘House of Cards’ Trial Testimony

Kevin Spacey , the former star of House of Cards , took the witness stand at a California civil trial Tuesday and acknowledged he was formally diagnosed with “sexual compulsive behavior” in 2017 after he voluntarily entered an inpatient treatment program amid a wave of sexual misconduct allegations . The diagnosis appeared in a psychiatric summary issued when Spacey was discharged from The Meadows treatment facility in Arizona on Dec.

16, 2017. In a Santa Monica courtroom, Spacey was asked to read part of the summary of his diagnosis aloud. “Other specified obsessive and related behaviors, sexual compulsive behavior, generalized anxiety disorder,” Spacey said, reading from a screen in the witness box. Asked whether he had “any medical basis to challenge the diagnoses,” he replied, “No.” Spacey further confirmed that his goal at The Meadows was to “address sexual behavior and boundaries.” As his testimony continued, however, he expressed frustration with notes in his medical records written by the two main doctors who treated him.

In one notation, a doctor wrote that Spacey had identified one of his “problem behaviors”...