Last week, Pretenders rocker Chrissie Hynde came under fire after she made controversial comments that suggested women needed to take responsibility for their own sexual assault if they dressed provocatively or were drunk. Hynde told The Washington Post that she had not really thought about her words that caused such a fuss.
"They're entitled to say whatever they want. Do I regret saying it? I don't know. I haven't really thought about it," she said. "I've just had some emails from friends saying, 'Do you want to hide at my place?'"
On Aug. 30 in an interview with the Sunday Times, Hynde told the magazine she took full responsibility for a sexual assault that occurred when she was 21.
"You can't paint yourself into a corner and then say whose brush is this? You have to take responsibility," Hynde said. "If you play with fire, you get burnt. It's not any secret, is it?"
"Sounds like common sense," Hynde told the Washington Post after she listened to her controversial comments. "If you don't want my opinion, don't ask me for it."
She went on the suggest that her comments were blown out of proportion, and that there were other things people needed to worry about, according to the Guardian.
"At the moment, we're in one of the worst humanitarian crises in our lifetime," she said. "You see that picture of a Turkish policeman carrying the body of a 3-year-old boy who got washed up on the shore. These are the heartbreaking images we have and we're talking about millions of displaced persons and people whose families have been destroyed and we're talking about comments that I allegedly made about girls in their underwear."
