Soon-Yi Previn Speaks About Her Relationship With Woody Allen For First Time; Ronan and Dylan Fire Back, Shaming New York Magazine

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The Woody Allen question is as hotly debated and contentious as the biggest mysteries of our lifetime ranking up there with The JFK Assassination, and Roswell. Did one of our greatest living filmmakers do the unthinkable? Did he molest his daughter, Dylan?

Nobody wants to disbelieve a child’s allegations of abuse. It would be a horrific and unforgivable offense added on top an already horrific and unforgivable offense. But there are allegations of a controlling mother, who was hellbent on revenge when her boyfriend turned away from her, and to her young adopted daughter. The undeniable truth is that these children suffered, and that is criminal.

Woody Allen has always proclaimed his innocence as vigorously as Mia proclaimed his guilt. Ronan Farrow and Dylan Farrow have spoken out accusing Allen of unthinkable transgressions. Moses Farrow told a different story of a mother who horribly mistreated her children and brainwashed them regularly. The one person who hasn’t told her story is Soon-Yi. Tonight Vulture.com published a detailed profile of Soon-Yi, written after lengthy interview sessions, spending long periods of time with Soon Yi and her husband. She shares her story for the first time, detailing as much as she can remember from her pre-adopted life, her time with Mia Farrow, and the way in which her taboo relationship with her mother’s boyfriend unfolded and developed into a marriage and a family.

She details being called stupid by her mother, being treated as a domestic, and practically raising her siblings. The profile is not unbiased, nor does it purport to be an investigative piece aimed at finding ultimate truth. It is Soon-Yi’s story, told from her point of view to a sympathetic writer- a friend and admirer of Allen.

“We didn’t think of him as a father,” Soon-Yi says about Allen, “and he didn’t even have clothing at our house, not even a toothbrush”.

On the accusations against her husband, she says “But what’s happened to Woody is so upsetting, so unjust. [Mia] has taken advantage of the #MeToo movement… a whole new generation is hearing about it when they shouldn’t.” She says she can’t think of a single pleasant memory of her mother. And she says her relationship with Woody just happened after they began spending time together, going to basketball games. She described the first time their relationship turned physical. “To the best of my memory I came in from college on some holiday and he showed me a Bergman movie, which I believe was The Seventh Seal, but I’m not positive. We chatted about it, and I must have been impressive because he kissed me and I think that started it. We were like two magnets, very attracted to each other.”

You can read the extensive interview at Vulture.com.

Soon-Yi’s siblings, Ronan and Dylan Farrow already responded to the profile, with Ronan calling the story a plant designed to vilify his mother. “As a brother and a son, I’m angry that New York Magazine would participate in this kind of a hit job, written by a longtime admirer and friend of Woody Allen’s. As a journalist, I’m shocked by the lack of care for the facts, the refusal to include eyewitness testimony that would contradict falsehoods in this piece, and the failure to include my sister’s complete responses. Survivors of abuse deserve better.”

Dylan’s statement accuses the NY Magazine reporter of feeding her own infatuation with Woody Allen through the piece and said the magazine should be ashamed of publishing the piece. “The idea of letting a friend of an alleged predator writing a one-sided piece attacking the credibility of his victim is disgusting.”

There is also a group statement from Matthew Previn, Sascha Previn, Fletcher Previn, Daisy Previn, Ronan Farrow, Isaiah Farrow, and Quincy Farrow, defending their mother and calling the piece an unfair attack.

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Interrobang Staff

Interrobang Staff