Woody Allen says that his affair with Mia Farrow’s adopted daughter was “the turning point in my life for the better” — but a devastated Mia tried to kill herself after finding nude photos of Soon-Yi taken by her longtime lover! The actress’ former nanny, Kristi Groteke, revealed shocking secrets of the showbiz scandal in her book “Woody and Mia: The Nanny’s Tale.” She claimed that Mia later confessed to walking out onto Allen’s high-rise terrace in New York City with plans to plunge to her death. “I was crying all night,” Mia said, according to Kristi’s account. “I couldn’t sleep. And then I took this anti-depressant and became very jittery. My mind started to gallop. I couldn’t bear the pain any more.” But, said Kristi, the troubled actress finally came to her senses thinking about her 11 children, including the two that she’d adopted with Woody, plus the child that they’d had together!
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"So I wrote this suicide note," Mia reportedly told Kristi (at left). "Then I called Woody to tell him what I was going to do. I went outside and stood by the edge of his terrace, and I looked down. But I couldn't jump.
All I could do was think about the children. I couldn't put them through any more pain than they had already gone through."
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In a bitter twist, however, Kristi added that Mia later claimed Woody had tried to use the suicide note she'd left at the scene "as proof that I was an unfit mother." Judge Elliott Wilk, however, apparently put the suicide bid down to Farrow's extreme stress. He awarded Mia sole custody of the couple's three children in June, 1993.
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“I didn’t find any great moral dilemmas whatsoever,” the “Annie Hall” star told TIME magazine. “I didn’t feel that just because she was Mia’s daughter, there was any great moral dilemma. It was a fact, but not one with any great import. It wasn’t like she was my daughter.”
"So I wrote this suicide note," Mia reportedly told Kristi (at left). "Then I called Woody to tell him what I was going to do. I went outside and stood by the edge of his terrace, and I looked down. But I couldn't jump.
All I could do was think about the children. I couldn't put them through any more pain than they had already gone through."
Photo credit: Getty Images
In a bitter twist, however, Kristi added that Mia later claimed Woody had tried to use the suicide note she'd left at the scene "as proof that I was an unfit mother." Judge Elliott Wilk, however, apparently put the suicide bid down to Farrow's extreme stress. He awarded Mia sole custody of the couple's three children in June, 1993.
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“I didn’t find any great moral dilemmas whatsoever,” the “Annie Hall” star told TIME magazine. “I didn’t feel that just because she was Mia’s daughter, there was any great moral dilemma. It was a fact, but not one with any great import. It wasn’t like she was my daughter.”
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