My father tried to rape me too, says Nastassja Kinski
Actress Nastassja Kinski has accused her father, late German film icon Klaus, of attempting to abuse her, after allegations by her half-sister Pola that he raped her throughout her childhood.
Nastassja Kinski, 51, who achieved Hollywood fame with films such as and , told the weekly that her father did not actually rape her but "tried to".
"He always touched me far too much, held me so tightly against him that I thought I could not escape. At the time I was four or five years old and we were living in Munich," Kinski said.
"Instinctively I recognised that this could not be the loving embrace of a father, but that it was more than that," she added.
The accusations against Klaus Kinski, a volatile film star who died in 1991, came after Pola Kinski's allegations that he began abusing her at the age of five and raped her for the first time when she was nine. The assaults continued until she was 19, she said in an interview with magazine ahead of the publication of her memoirs. In the 1970s, Nastassja Kinski made headlines for her affair with director Roman Polanski. She was 15 at the time, while he was 42.
Nastassja Kinski painted a picture of a violent father. If he were still alive today, "I would do everything to ensure he went to prison", she said.
