Media covered Sharon Tate’s murder in most despicable way: Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski says his bad days in Hollywood started with the murder of his wife Sharon Tate as he believes that many in the media thought that he was the one responsible for the tragedy.Polanski, who is wanted in the US after fleeing the country decades ago to avoid jail in a case related to having sex with a minor, is currently in the news over the inclusion of his upcoming film “An Officer and a Spy” in the competition line-up of the 2019 Venice Film Festival. According to Deadline, the film’s press notes at the festival contained an interview of Polanski where he talked about Tate’s murder and the movie in detail.”The way people see me, my ‘image’, did indeed start to form with Sharon Tate’s death,” he said.Tate was eight-and-a-half months when she was killed along with four others at her residence by the followers of cult leader Charles Manson. Polanski said the media covered the whole tragedy in a “most despicable” way, during which they also pointed fingers at him.”When it happened, even though I was already going through a terrible time, the press got hold of the tragedy and, unsure of how to deal with it, covered it in the most despicable way, implying, among other things, that I was one of the people responsible for her murder, against a background of satanism.
