Kevin Spacey is addressing questions about his participation in a 2002 humanitarian trip to Africa that included former President Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein , the shadowy financier who died of suicide in jail while facing charges of sex trafficking minors .

The House of Cards actor, whose career dwindled amid numerous sexual misconduct allegations , said Tuesday that he didnt know Epstein or his since-convicted accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, when he flew on Epsteins private jet as part of a group participating in the program on AIDS and HIV awareness.

I didnt want to be around this guy because I felt he put the president at risk on that trip to South Africa because there were these young girls, the actor said on Piers Morgan Uncensored. We were like, Who is this guy?

When Morgan asked Spacey to clarify, he said, There were young girls on those flights.

The actors association with Epstein became public when flight logs for Epsteins jet were recently authenticated and Spaceys name was found alongside Clintons . The names of numerous high-profile passengers were also on flight logs for the jet, but the logs themselves are not implications of wrongdoing.

Spacey said Tuesday that he had no idea who Epstein was when he boarded his plane as part of a the eight-day trip to promote AIDS prevention, which he said he joined after becoming friends with Clinton, who invited him.

HuffPost has reached out to a representative of Bill Clinton for comment.

In 2015, I started seeing reports online, things on my Twitter account that I had flown to this guy Jeffrey Epsteins island and I had abused young girls, he told Morgan. If youd asked me in 2015 did I know a guy named Jeffrey Epstein, I probably wouldve said no.

Spacey told Morgan that hes since been able to go back and find out that the private jet used on the 2002 tour was owned by Jeffrey Epstein and that he and this Maxwell woman were on some of those flights but that he didnt know him and never spent any time with him.

Spacey added, I was with the Clinton Foundation people. Thats who I was with.