I didnt even know it was illegal, that someone could be arrested for it.
I was fine, Im still fine.
The fact that weve made this thing up weighs on me terribly.
Emmanuelle Seigner and Roman Polanski, 2017.Andreas Rentz/Getty Images
To have to constantly repeat that it wasnt a big deal, its a terrible burden.
Im sorry but that is no defense.
Seigner added, I remember the time when I was starting to work.
I became a model at 14 years old.
All the girls, the models, slept with the photographers and I was no exception.
But sex was something normal, a natural aspect of life.
There wasnt all this drama, all this darkness surrounding sex.
Because with my family, we couldnt even leave our house anymore!
Everyone was attacking us.
No one came to stand by my side and say: Hey, you know what?
I think shes telling the truth because something similar happened to me.
Its not like the story was private, it was in newspapers around the world!
And now, now that they have an urgent need to unpack everything?
Who are they kidding?
Except the truth is that they only have their careers and their TV shows in mind.
Polanski has stayed away from the US since 1978.
He has since been Oscar-nominated five times, winning Best Director forThe Pianistin 2003.
