Middle-aged mom and wife Samantha Geimer saw her world come crashing down in November, 2009, when exiled Hollywood director Roman Polanski was arrested in Switzerland on a decades-old warrant for the sexual assault of a teen. Though she'd been happily living in relative anonymity for years, she was the woman, now 50, who Polanski had raped thirty-seven years ago. Four years after her past came crashing back into her life once again, Geimer relives the days leading up to his alleged sexual assault, and the attack itself, in her new book, The Girl.

Geimer and Polanski had met when the Chinatown director, a friend of the family, asked 13-year-old Geimer's parents if he could photograph their daughter in a test shoot for French Vogue.

Initially excited, Geimer says the first red flag arose when he insisted her mother stay away from the shoot.

"My mom gently suggested she come along on the shoot," Geimer writes. "There was a long pause. 'No,' Roman said, her presence might make me uncomfortable and unable to relax in front of the camera. She didn't fight him; there were already stories about Brooke Shields' crazy controlling stage mother, and she certainly didn't want to be that."