Roman Polanski Has a Friend in Woody Allen

By PopEater Staff Posted May 17th 2010 06:59AM

Woody Allen has pledged his support to Roman Polanski in the past -- even signing a petition calling for the director's release -- but the timing of his latest words of encouragement hints that the 'Annie Hall' director may not be keeping up on the news.

"It's something that happened many years ago ... he has suffered, he has not been allowed to go to the United States. He was embarrassed by the whole thing," Allen said in an interview Saturday with France Info radio at the Cannes Film Festival.

Allen continued: "He has paid his dues, he has had a hard life. The girl involved doesn't want anything to happen to him."

The 74-year-old director was speaking a day after British actress Charlotte Lewis accused Polanski of sexually abusing her when she was 16. The 'Golden Child' star, now 42, told reporters on Friday that Polanski victimized her "in the worst possible way" at his Paris apartment in the 1980s.

It's unclear whether Allen was aware of Lewis' allegations when he affirmed his support of Polanski in France.

Polanski pleaded guilty in 1978 to unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl named Samantha Geimer. He was taken into custody in September and is currently under house arrest in Gstaad, Switzerland.

Allen's relationship with actress Mia Farrow ended in scandal and New York tabloid headlines in 1992, when she found out he was having an affair with her adopted daughter, Soon-Yi Previn, then 22. Allen married Previn in 1997.

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Monday 17 May

By henry

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Sad

By Robin

No surprise - one child molesting pervert sticking up for another.

Thursday 20 May

By tappers

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exactly - I wonder if Allen watched the films that Roman made during his fugative years ...he made a film where a women is raped violently... sad to think of who finaced his movies allowing him his lavish life on the run ...he needs to spend te rest of his life in prison he needs a BIG CELLMATE.

By dale

this is very disturbing! i hope there is some justice in this upside down world. if woody likes and supports his pervy friend, then he should tell him to turn himself in and get some help. and maybe he should join him!

By MIKE

THEY MAKE A "NICE COUPLE"....A COUPLE OF "WHAT" IS THE QUESTION ...

By whoitis51

said the adulterer to the pedophile

By Carolyn

Well said to everyone's post. Now lets work to get Mr. P back in the states to face his punishment. He needs to "man up" and take responsibility for his bad actions and pay the price. Don't go to his death bed with this on his conscience. Get it over with. The sooner the better.

Friday 21 May

By Suzie

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The problem is, he has NO conscience and neither does Woody Allen. They are both sick and manage to keep out of jail with their money!

By No $ for WooDEVIATE Allen movies

Be sure to NOT spend one CENT on any WooDEVIATE Allen or RP movies.

By PAULLA

HEY FOLKS,CHECK THE ARCHIVES,, POLANSKI "PLEAD GUILTY"!!!!!DOES ANYONE UNDERSTAND THAT??? THEN HE RAN ! LIKE THE COWARD HE IS.AND NO, IT DOESNT SURPRISE ME THAT ANOTHER PEDOPHILE IS STICKING UP FOR ANOTHER.WHAT MAKES CELEBRITIES THINK THEY ARE BETTER THAN EVERYONE ELSE? I STILL DONT THINK I HAVE FORGIVEN MEL GIBSON FOR HIS ANTICS, NOW LOOK AT HIM. SEPERATED FROM THIS ACTRESS AFTER THE BIRTH OF THIER BABY. ANYONE SURPRISED? I M NOT.WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO MORALS?

By MR&MR TONY KAELIN

RICH, FAMOUS. THE TYPE OF PEDOPHILE THAT GETS AWAY.SO AGREE, MR WINT & MR KIDD

By greg

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It's so strange that these folks are so upset about Woody's and Roman's past indiscretions and yet its okay that our government has raped Iraq and Afghanistan. It makes one wonder who is really sick in the head.

By vanessa

I'm sorry but did you mistake this for a Political Action Site. It's not. It's about two Men that have harmed Children and young Women. It's not political and relevant to War which harms all. So please go to the appropriate forum and vent. This is about two Men that have harmed young Women and Children under the guise of being "Adult Males". I know that equates to War and Politics to you but no one else.

By cornellyangi

greg.......WHAT????????????? If you want to go into that BS check out basic history from the ROMANS to AMERICAN INDIANS ect!!!! Waste product!!!! One the WEIDO ALLEN story who and why would anybody/#1 want to f--k him /#2 overpay a total jerk with no talet /#3 still pay and talk about him.......He and his sociopath wife(?????) is not ever worthy to be on a TRUE TV show!!!!!

By Kevin

OF COURSE WOODY ALLEN IS STICKING UP FOR HIM, BARF...What a DISGUSTING DUO.....molesters of a feather, all stick together....this whole thing just makes me sick....

By Butterfly DavenPort

What a pretty couple! Pretty ugly that is! Whew, these two ole' stinkers are as rotten as a Roosters egg. Something deffinately smells afoul in Denmark. Actually, wouldn't that be the perfect place for these two old PERVERTS? I think they should both be exiled to Siberia...NAKED! Then maybe their shriveled old wankers wouldn't be craving hot young nubiles because they'd be too busy roasting their aged and infirm Weiner-Shnitzels over an open fire to keep them warm. After all...they might as well get used to the heat...cause we all know where these old Kiddie Kravers are-a-headin'...and it ain't to meet Saint Peter! Butterfly...a.k.a..The Butter

By Mike

Woody is not any better than Roman. He is just as sick as the other. Anyway, who cares what Woody has to say. He is a nobody in my book and he should be in jail already for what he has done. Both of them are sick bastard pedifiles.

By viking9343

I heard Polanski and Allen were about to start making a film together called, "Honey, I screwed the kids".

OMG!!!!!!!! YOU ARE SO RIGHT!!!!!!

By Donna

Does woody think we all care about what he thinks? Its as if woody thinks we all listen to his load of sicko crap.
Woody is almost as bad as roman.
Roman should be kidnapped and brought back to the USA.
Then thrown in prison where his sick as.. should have been back in the 70s.
Anyone who takes up for anyone who does this kind of thing has one sick mind. These two have no values, no morals, no respect for anyone, but their selves.

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