By Mark Gray
10:00pm PDT, Oct 6, 2023
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Kevin Spacey was rushed to the hospital in Uzbekistan this week after suffering what he thought was a heart attack. The "House of Cards" actor was touring the Afrasiyab Museum in the city of Samarkand when his arm went completely numb for about eight seconds. Kevin hightailed it to the hospital out of fear he was having a heart attack. A few hours later, he turned up at at the Tashkent International Film Festival.
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Friends urged Kevin Spacey to seek medical treatment after his left arm went numb for eight seconds while he was addressing the crowd at the 15th Tashkent International Film Festival.
"I spent the afternoon there having a variety of tests. Staff took care of me, and even put me through an MRI," he later shared. "Everything turned out to be completely normal, and I'm grateful it's not anything more serious."
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Kevin Spacey "was treated professionally by doctors and staff and found to have no problem with his heart," a source told The Sun.
After doctors gave him the all-clear, the Oscar winner headed to the Tashkent International Film Festival.
"It made me really take a moment and think about how fragile life is — for all of us — and how important it is for us all to come together, that we support each other, that we do what we can for the next generation," he told the audience at the festival.
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Kevin Spacey's world was rocked in 2017 when he was accused of sexually assaulting multiple men.
The once-celebrated actor was dropped from Ridley Scott's 2017 movie "All the Money in the World" and he was axed from "House of Cards" after it was deemed that his alleged sexual misconduct was a breach of contract.
He has since been found not liable in a sexual misconduct civil trial in New York and criminal charges against him were dropped. In July 2023, a London jury also acquitted him, clearing him of nine counts of sexually assaulting multiple men.
While at the festival this week, Kevin promised a career "comeback" and said his "best roles were ahead" of him.
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Although the Oscar winner's legal troubles seem to be behind him now, Kevin Spacey won't exactly be welcomed back into the Hollywood fold, insiders say.
"It's not a matter of can Kevin work again, but who will work with him?" one producer told Page Six.
Kevin had recently claimed that producers were eager to hire him in the event that he was cleared, and that might be the case… in Europe.
"Look at all these men accused of sex crimes, from Woody Allen to Roman Polanski, they're all working in Europe," a Hollywood source said. "Woody's even got his new movie coming up at [the] Venice Film Festival. … All these men get a clean bill of health in Europe, but it's harder to come back to Hollywood."
Woody has been accused of molesting his own daughter, a claim he's long denied. Roman was accused of sexual assault of a minor in 1977. Both have continued to make critically acclaimed movies outside of the United States.
