Polanski victim forgives Tarantino

Samantha Geimer says Quentin Tarantino was dead wrong to suggest she welcomed her rape by Roman Polanski in 1977, but she’s willing to cut the director some slack.

In an exclusive interview, Geimer said she was surprised to wake up Tuesday and learn Tarantino had gone on Howard Stern’s radio show in 2003 and characterized her sexual assault at 13 as a consensual encounter.

“I’m not upset, but I would probably feel better if he realizes now that he was wrong, after 15 years, after hearing the facts,” she said.

In the Stern interview that resurfaced late Monday on Jezebel.com, Tarantino is heard defending Polanski’s actions in the criminal case that led to the director’s conviction for sex with a minor and ongoing fugi- tive status, saying Geimer was “down with” having sex with Polanski.

Now living in Hawaii, Geimer said she’s a fan of Tarantino’s work and is willing to forgive and forget considering his more recent comments supporting actress Uma Thurman and other victims of assault.

She doesn’t care if that’s not a popular opinion, either.

Geimer said she made peace with what happened by writing her 2013 book The Girl: A Life in the Shadow of Roman Polanski.

She also said in 2015 she has forgiven Polanski, 84, for plying her with champagne and part of a Quaalude before raping and sodomizing her at actor Jack Nicholson’s compound in the Hollywood Hills.

She said the six weeks Polanski served in prison during a courtordered evaluation before he fled the U.S. on the eve of sentencing in 1978 were enough for her. New York Daily News