Wife of Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour calls out Roger Waters

Pink Floyd's David Gilmour and Roger Waters have been on the outs for years, and based on a recent tweet by Gilmour's wife, we won't be seeing a reunion happening anytime soon. Polly Samson, who's responsible for writing several post-Waters Floyd songs, took to social media to respond to a recent interview Waters gave in which he criticized Pink Floyd for releasing a Ukrainian protest song.

In an interview with the German newspaper Berliner Zeitung, Waters discusses his take on Ukraine, Israel and Russian President Vladimir Putin. He called it "really, really sad" that his former bandmates recorded the song "Hey Hey Rise Up" with Ukrainian musician Andrij Chlywnjuk, calling it "lacking in humanity."

That article prompted Samson to respond, "Sadly @rogerwaters 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 then re-tweeted the post, "writing Every word demonstrably true."

Waters later responded to the tweet, writing, "Roger Waters is aware of the incendiary and wildly inaccurate comments made about him on Twitter by Polly Samson which he refutes entirely. He is currently taking advice as to his position."

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