Roman Polanski's victim doesn't want people to boycott on her behalf

By Annie Brown
Updated February 26 2017 - 11:13am, first published February 20 2017 - 9:50am

The woman who was raped by filmmaker Roman Polanski when she was 13 years-old has asked for people to stop making her a "victim." In response to Polanski stepping down from his role as president of the César Awards following planned protests from feminist organisation d'Osez le Feminisme, Samantha Geimer has told TMZ, "I don't like being used by advocates boycotting that he's going to be the president of the César Awards, people make a petition without my consent."

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