Roman Polanski has asked the US "only to be treated fairly" in his first public comments about the bid to extradite the director from Switzerland. Polanski fled America in 1978 before being sentenced after being arrested and admitting his guilt of having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl and has been under house arrest in his Swiss chalet since September while US prosecutors seek his extradition. "I can no longer remain silent because the United States continues to demand my extradition," the BBC reports Polanski writing in a statement. "More to serve me on a platter to the media of the world than to pronounce a judgment concerning which an agreement was reached 33 years ago. I ask only to be treated fairly like anyone else." More celebrity gossip on handbag.com.
