Polanski woman on sex scandal impact
In the late 1970s the film director Roman Polanski admitted to having unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13 year old girl.
He spent 42 days in prison then fled the United States because he feared being given a longer sentence.
He was rearrested in Switzerland in 2009 and spent months in prison and under house arrest.
Much has been said and written about what happened, but hardly anything has been said by the girl herself.
Now the woman at the centre of the decades-old scandal, Samantha Geimer, has written a book about how the event changed her life.
In an interview for BBC HardTalk, Sarah Montague asked her about the evening Roman Polanski took her to Jack Nicholson's house to photograph her, poured her champagne and gave her a sedative pill.
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