Nastassja Kinski says her ‘tyrant’ father tried to abuse her

Actress Nastassja Kinski has accused her father, the late German film star Klaus Kinski, of trying to molest her after her half-sister Pola claimed he raped her as a child.

Nastassja Kinski, the 51-year-old who rose to Hollywood fame with films such as “Cat People” and “Tess,” told the weekly “Bild am Sonntag” that her father did not actually rape her, but “tried to.”

“He always touched me too much, held me so tightly to him that I thought I couldn’t escape. I was four or five years old then and we lived in Munich,” Kinski recalls. “I instinctively recognized that this couldn’t be a father’s loving embrace, but something more,” she added.

The allegations against Klaus Kinski, who died in 1991, emerged after Poli Kinski accused him of sexually molesting her when she was five and first raping her when she was nine.

As she testified in an interview with Stern magazine before the publication of her memoirs, the assaults continued until she was 19.

In the 1970s, Nastassja Kinski made headlines for her affair with “Tess” director Roman Polanski. She was 15 at the time and he was 42.

She is the daughter of Klaus Kinski’s second wife, Brigitte. Pola Kinski’s mother was his first wife, singer Gislinde Kuehbeck. They also have a 36-year-old half-brother, Nikolai.

Nastassja Kinski painted a picture of a father who was aggressive and cold, and who was prone to fits of rage.

“He was a tyrant. I barely remember us all sitting together at the table,” she told Bild am Sonntag.

If he were alive today, “I would do anything to see him go to prison,” she said. “When he died, some people told me they were sorry. I wasn’t.”

Kinski is best known for his collaborations with German director Werner Herzog. In films such as Woyzeck and Fitzcarraldo, Kinski played unstable characters that reflected his own personality. In his autobiography, All I Need is Love, written several years before his death and titled All I Need is Love, he described himself as sexually voracious and suffering from mental health problems.