Revising Roman Polanski’s Apology To The 13-Year-Old Girl He Drugged And Sodomized

According to our nation’s paper of record, the Hollywood Reporter, Roman Polanski is featured in a new documentary about his legal herstory in which he offers an apology to Samantha Greimer, the woman he drugged and assaulted when she was only 13 years old.

Director Roman Polanski publicly apologized to Samantha Greimer, the woman he sexually assaulted 33 years ago, in a new documentary that had its world premiere Tuesday at the Zurich Film Festival.

“She is a double victim: my victim and a victim of the press,” the Oscar-winning director says near the end of Laurent Bouzereau’s Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir.

Uh, hey Roman, let’s try that again buddy, cool? No, no, that was great, you’re doing great, we just want to get one more take on the apology for safety so that we have something to work with in the editing room. First of all, let’s lose the part about the press. Roman. Roman, please. You know that I understand what you’re saying, I hear you, dude. But it kind of seems like you’re trying to split the guilt here 50/50 between you and “the press,” and I think, you know, it’s your first public apology in 34 years so I think you should keep it simple and leave the media out of it. Me? What would I have you say? Hmm, OK, right, OK, yeah, how about: DEAR SAMANTHA GREIMER, I AM VERY SORRY THAT I DRUGGED AND SODOMIZED YOU WHEN YOU WERE 13 YEARS OLD. And that’s it. Action!

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Roman Polanski returns to scene of 2009 arrest

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Roman Polanski has returned to the Zurich Film Festival to accept the lifetime achievement award he was unable to pick up two years ago after being arrested for a decades-old sex-crime case.

The Polish-French director of "Rosemary's Baby" was detained on arrival at Zurich airport in 2009 and subsequently spent months in prison and later house arrest before avoiding extradition to the United States on charges of having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977.

Now able to travel unhindered to Switzerland, Polanski, 78, arrived at the ceremony on Tuesday to be presented with the award.

Over 45,000 visitors are expected to attend the seventh installment of the festival in Switzerland's biggest city that includes 10 world premieres and runs through Oct. 2.

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