Woody Allen tells the French that it’s time to forgive Roman Polanski.

“It’s something that happened many years ago … he has suffered, he has not been allowed to go to the United States. He was embarrassed by the whole thing,” Allen said in an interview Saturday with France Info radio at the Cannes Film Festival.

“He was embarrassed by the whole thing” is not, in fact, the strongest argument one could make on Polanski’s behalf.

Meanwhile, another woman has come forward claiming that in 1982 Polanski forced himself on her while she was a teen—British actress Charlotte Lewis, who appeared in Polanski’s unfortunate film, “Pirates.”

Lewis has told London’s Mail on Sunday that Polanski told her, “If you’re not big enough to have sex with me, you’re not big enough to do the screen test. I must sleep with every actress that I work with. That’s how I get to know them, how I mold them.”

Creepy.

That said, Lewis apparently said no at first, then thought about it, returned later, and “won the part,” as Radar puts it. And as the New York Post points out, while Lewis was 16 at the time, the age of consent in France was 15.

Still, while the claim may not have any legal implications, and it says nothing about the circumstances of his murky trial, it certainly doesn’t help Polanski in the court of public opinion.