Kevin Spacey Defense Rests After Anthony Rapp’s Lawyers Grill Mental Health Expert In $40M Civil Trial; Closing Arguments Set
deadline.comKevin Spacey’s lawyers on Wednesday wrapped up their case in Star Trek: Discovery actor Anthony Rapp’s $40 million sexual misconduct suit against the embattled former star, with a psychiatrist hired by Spacey’s team as the last witness before jurors hear closing arguments scheduled for Thursday.
A lawyer for Rapp, Richard Steigman, spent the morning grilling the defense’s mental health expert, forensic psychiatrist Alexander Bardey, who testified that Spacey’s accuser isn’t afflicted with post-traumatic stress disorder and instead shows traits of narcissism.
Steigman challenged Bardey for saying that Rapp self-reported “off the charts” levels of trauma, anxiety and depression to the psychologist hired by Rapp’s legal team while showing moderate levels of mental distress, or none at all, on other tests that rely less on the test-taker’s own word.
Steigman produced one test Rapp took, a so-called “anxiety inventory,” with a maximum score of 63 indicating the highest levels of anxiety.
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