David Gilmour recently joined Mojo for an interview and said he doesn’t regret defending his wife, Polly Samson, from Roger Waters.
“That tweet was boiling up,” Gilmour told Mark Blake about h. “It had to come out – and I have no regrets about it. No regrets whatsoever.”
Samson previously posted on Twitter about Waters, “Sadly, Roger Waters, you are antisemitic to your rotten core. Also, a Putin apologist and a lying, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding, lip-synching, misogynistic, sick-with-envy megalomaniac. Enough of your nonsense.”
Gilmour later tweeted, “Every word demonstrably true.” Waters has long faced accusations of antisemitism. He stirred more controversy by defending Putin in an interview and criticizing Ukraine. Samson’s tweet came after his comments.
“The truth will set us free. Against the backdrop of the outrageous and despicable smear campaign by the Israeli lobby to denounce me as an anti-semite, which I am not, never have been, and never will be.” Waters had written in a tweet.
“Exactly, I did. But I may have changed my mind a little bit in the last year,” he also said in another interview. “There is a podcast from Cyprus called ‘The Duran.’ The hosts speak Russian and can read Putin’s speeches in the original. Their comments on it make sense to me.”
The musician added, “The most important reason for supplying arms to Ukraine is surely profit for the arms industry. And I wonder: is Putin a bigger gangster than Joe Biden and all those in charge of American politics since World War II? I am not so sure. Putin didn’t invade Vietnam or Iraq? Did he?”
“He launched what he still calls a ‘special military operation.’ He launched it on the basis of reasons that, if I have understood them well, are: 1. We want to stop the potential genocide of the Russian-speaking population of the Donbas. 2. We want to fight Nazism in Ukraine,” Roger then shared about Putin.
Later, Samson took it further by linking Waters with Scott Ritter, a convicted criminal, in supporting Putin in the Russia-Ukraine war. She wrote, “Has Atticus Finch become some sort of code? Ring any bells, Roger Waters?”
It’s also well known that Waters is not happy with Samson’s contribution to the earlier Pink Floyd albums.