Mia Farrow speaks up for Polanski

Mia Farrow defended film director Roman Polanski in his libel trial Tuesday, denying a claim by Vanity Fair magazine that he tried to seduce a woman days after his wife’s brutal murder.

Polanski is suing Conde Nast, the magazine’s publisher, over a 2002 article that said he seduced a woman at a New York City restaurant while on his way to the funeral of his wife, Sharon Tate. Tate, who was pregnant, was killed by followers of serial killer Charles Manson in Los Angeles in August 1969.

Farrow, 60, starred in Polanski’s 1968 film, “Rosemary’s Baby.” She testified in London’s High Court that she met Polanski at Elaine’s restaurant about two weeks after Tate’s death.

“He started telling me about events in California, what he had gone through, and he got very, very upset,” said a soft-spoken Farrow. “We had ordered our dinner, but we just left the restaurant. He was that upset, and I too.”