New York: Soon-Yi Previn, the wife of filmmaker Woody Allen, has broken her decades-long silence, saying the sexual assault claims against her husband were “unjust” and that her adoptive mother Mia Farrow has “taken advantage of the #MeToo movement”.
Dylan Farrow, Allen's adopted daughter with Farrow, accused the director of sexually abusing her in the early 1990s while she was a child. She reiterated her allegations in a 2014 New York Times op-ed and other articles.
Allen previously claimed that Farrow “coached” her daughter into making the claims. “I was never interested in writing a Mommie Dearest, getting even with Mia none of that. But what's happened to Woody is so upsetting, so unjust. (Mia) has taken advantage of the #MeToo movement and paraded Dylan as a victim. And a whole new generation is hearing about it when they shouldn't,” Priven is quoted in the New York magazine article.
The piece has been penned by Daphne Merkin, who has acknowledged that has been Allen's friend for over 40 years.
Previn, who was adopted by Farrow and her former husband Andre Previn, recalled how the “Rosemary's Baby” star flew off the handle when she discovered her nude photos that Allen had taken at his apartment in January 1992.
Responding to Soon-Yi's article, Dylan slammed the author for writing “a one sided piece attacking the credibility of his (Allen's) victim”.
