Woody Allen addresses allegations in first interview in 30 years
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<p>Woody Allen has spoken out for the first time in 30 years about the allegations against him as well as his relationship with his wife Soon-Yi Previn.</p>
<p>Allen, 85, spoke with<span> </span><em>CBS Sunday Morning</em><span> </span>for his first in-depth on-camera interview in three decades.</p>
<p>He addresses the allegations brought against him by his adoptive daughter Dylan Farrow who claims that Allen molested her when she was seven years old.</p>
<p>Allen denied there being truth to the claims but he doesn't think Dylan is lying either.</p>
<p>“I believe she thinks it,” Allen says (via<span> </span><a rel="noopener" href="https://deadline.com/2021/03/woody-allen-cbs-sunday-morning-dylan-farrow-allegations-interview-1234723415/" target="_blank"><em>Deadline</em></a>). “She was a good kid. I do not believe that she’s making it up. I don’t believe she’s lying. I believe she believes that.”</p>
<p>Allen has implied in the past that Dylan has been misled to believe something happened when Allen says it didn't as the claims came out during a heated custody battle with his ex Mia Farrow in 1992.</p>
<p>“It’s so preposterous, and yet the smear has remained,” Allen says in the interview.</p>
<p>“And they still prefer to cling to, if not the notion that I molested Dylan, the possibility that I molested her.</p>
<p>“Nothing that I ever did with Dylan in my life could be misconstrued as that.”</p>
<p>He continues: “There was no logic to it, on the face of it. Why would a guy who’s 57 years old and never accused of anything in my life, I’m suddenly going to drive up in the middle of a contentious custody fight at Mia’s country home (with) a 7-year-old girl. It just – on the surface, I didn’t think it required any investigation, even.”</p>
<p>The interview also discussed his relationship with Soon-Yi Previn, which has been controversial since it began. The pair met when Soon-Yi was the adoptive daughter of Mia Farrow and the pair began a relationship despite their 35-year age difference.</p>
<p>“I would say, the many women I’ve dated in my life — many women — they were all what the appropriate police would call appropriate, age-appropriate,” he explained.</p>
<p>“Diane Keaton, Mia Farrow, (second wife), Louise Lasser, my first wife … until Soon-Yi, which is unusual for me.</p>
<p>“If you had told me that I was going to wind up married — happily married — to an Asian woman, much younger than me, not in show business, I would have said, ‘Well, the odds of that are very slim. I don’t think you’re going to be right.’ But that’s what happened.”</p>
<p>He addressed that the way they met was unusual but said that they came together in a less scandalous way than people think.</p>
<p>“I never slept at Mia’s house in all the years I went out with her,” Allen told Cowan.</p>
<p>“We had a relationship but there was never gonna be a marital relationship … It got to be a relationship of convenience after a while.”</p>
<p>He noted that “the last thing in the world that anybody wanted was to hurt anybody’s feelings.”</p>
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