Also Read: Nate Parker Apologizes for Response to Rape Accusation, Gets Support From Spike LeeBut the film’s buzz was derailed after the resurfacing of rape accusations against Parker and his “Birth of a Nation” co-writer Jean Celestin in 1999, when he was a student at Penn State University.
The two men were accused of raping a young white woman on campus and later starting a harassment campaign against her. Celestin was convicted, but Parker was acquitted, and the accuser took her own life in 2012.Following the film’s premiere at Venice, Parker apologized for how he handled the resurfaced rape accusations, saying, “I’ve learned a lot in the last three years.
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