Whoopi Goldberg has issued a statement clarifying comments she made about Roman Polanski’s weekend arrest in connection with a 32 year old statutory rape case.
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Whoopi is facing a fierce backlash after saying that the critically-acclaimed director didn’t commit “rape-rape” when he had unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977.
“I know it wasn’t rape-rape. I think it was something else, but I don’t believe it was rape-rape,” she said on The View Monday. “He pled guilty to having sex with a minor and he went to jail, and when they let him out he said ‘You know what, this guy’s going to give me 100 years in jail. I’m not staying’. And that’s why he left.”
Whoopi went on damage control in a follow-up statement issued Wednesday: “Some people got the idea that I was condoning what he did. I’m going to be very clear: I was trying to make sure we had our facts straight because that’s my job – particularly about what he was arrested for and what he was charged with, which was unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, not rape, which was my point.”
In 1977, Samantha Gailey, then 13, told a grand jury that the director supplied her with champagne and drugs, took nude pictures of her in a hot tub, and then had sex with her, despite her repeated requests to be taken home.



























































































































































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