Shirley Manson attacks Morrissey for Spacey/Weinstein comments

Garbage star Shirley Manson has blasted rocker Morrissey for suggesting Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey’s assault accusers should have known better.
Promoting his new album Low in High School in Germany recently, the former The Smiths star reportedly addressed the scandals swirling around the disgraced movie mogul and the Oscar winner, telling Der Spiegel he questioned the people behind the allegations.
Spacey has been dropped from his TV drama House of Cards and new film All The Money In The World after accusations of sexual assault and harassment were made against him last month (Oct17) following claims he pinned Star Trek: Discovery actor Anthony Rapp to a bed when he was 14.
“I think that’s ridiculous,” Morrissey is reported as saying. “Kevin Spacey was 26, the boy 14. In that case, you ask yourself where the parents of the boy were? You ask yourself whether the boy sensed what could happen.
“I don’t know how things are with you, but I have never been in situations like these in my youth. Never. I was always aware of what could happen. If you’re in somebody’s bedroom, you need to be aware of where that could lead.”
He added, “Because of that, all of that (Rapp’s claims) doesn’t seem very credible to me. To me, it seems as if Spacey was needlessly attacked.”
Morrissey also weighed in on the Harvey Weinstein sexual assault scandal, insisting the disgraced movie mogul’s accusers knew “exactly what is happening and they are playing along”, adding, “Afterwards they find it embarrassing or they didn’t like it. And then they turn it around and say, ‘I’ve been attacked, I’ve been surprised, I was dragged into the room’. But if everything had gone just fine and made possible a great career, they wouldn’t talk about it.”
And Manson isn’t waiting for the rocker to backtrack or suggest he might have been misquoted, she’s going for him on social media.
“Morrissey has lost the f**king plot,” she tweeted. “Weinstein + Spacey unfairly attacked? For rape, sexual abuse + coercion etc. F**k U Morrissey! F**k YOU.”
Weinstein is currently under investigation in Los Angeles, New York and London following a string of sexual assault, harassment and rape accusations, sparked by an expose published in the New York Times last month (Oct17). The producer has denied he ever had non-consensual sex with any of his accusers.