Woody Allen’s career is on the rocks after being accused of molesting his daughter Dylan as a young child — and now the once-respected director can’t even get his finished film released! Amid the new controversy over “A Rainy Day in New York,” Woody has turned to his wife Soon-Yi to finally go public about their relationship, which became a celebrity sex scandal after his longtime companion Mia Farrow found nudes that Woody took of her adopted daughter. “People think that I was Soon-Yi’s father, that I raped and married my underaged, retarded daughter,” Woody complains in the New York magazine article. Now, however, people are complaining about New York seemingly helping to try and rehabilitate Woody’s battered reputation in an article written by Daphne Merkin, who describes herself as “friends with Allen for over four decades.” Some shocked readers are even claiming that the fawning New York article actually has Soon-Yi admitting to being groomed by Woody as a young girl…
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Soon-Yi says in the interview that she was a freshman college student when Woody first became attracted to her while in a longterm relationship with her mother Mia — with the couple officially co-adopting Dylan and Moses Farrow in 1991. That same year, said Soon-Yi, Woody showed her a film by director Ingmar Bergman: “We chatted about it, and I must have been impressive because he kissed me, and I think that started it.”
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Merkin praises the moment as “a scene straight out of a Woody Allen movie.” Readers, however, have blasted Soon-Yi's story as sounding more like Woody had taken advantage of, in the words one angry reader, “a child hungry for love, affection, and validation.” Additional concerns are sparked by Soon-Yi saying that Woody “pursued me. That’s why the relationship has worked: I felt valued. It’s quite flattering for me.”
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The article also cites Moses Farrow's own statements
that he believes Mia coached Dylan to accuse her father of molesting her — and Merkin quotes Woody's sister, Letty, as recalling a conversation with Mia that began with the actress saying: “‘He took my daughter, I’m going to take his.’ I said, ‘Don’t be ridiculous. [Dylan] loves Woody. A child should have a father.’ She said, ‘I don’t care.’”
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Ronan Farrow, who's helped to
publicize his sister Dylan's claims about being molested by Woody, also blasted the article, saying: “As a brother and a son, I'm angry that
New York magazine would participate in this kind of a hit job...as a journalist, I'm shocked by the lack of care for the facts, the refusal to include eyewitness testimony...and the failure to include my sister's responses.”
Soon-Yi says in the interview that she was a freshman college student when Woody first became attracted to her while in a longterm relationship with her mother Mia — with the couple officially co-adopting Dylan and Moses Farrow in 1991. That same year, said Soon-Yi, Woody showed her a film by director Ingmar Bergman: “We chatted about it, and I must have been impressive because he kissed me, and I think that started it.”
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Merkin praises the moment as “a scene straight out of a Woody Allen movie.” Readers, however, have blasted Soon-Yi's story as sounding more like Woody had taken advantage of, in the words one angry reader, “a child hungry for love, affection, and validation.” Additional concerns are sparked by Soon-Yi saying that Woody “pursued me. That’s why the relationship has worked: I felt valued. It’s quite flattering for me.”
Photo credit: Getty Images
The article also cites Moses Farrow's own statements
that he believes Mia coached Dylan to accuse her father of molesting her — and Merkin quotes Woody's sister, Letty, as recalling a conversation with Mia that began with the actress saying: “‘He took my daughter, I’m going to take his.’ I said, ‘Don’t be ridiculous. [Dylan] loves Woody. A child should have a father.’ She said, ‘I don’t care.’”
Photo credit: Getty Images
Ronan Farrow, who's helped to
publicize his sister Dylan's claims about being molested by Woody, also blasted the article, saying: “As a brother and a son, I'm angry that
New York magazine would participate in this kind of a hit job...as a journalist, I'm shocked by the lack of care for the facts, the refusal to include eyewitness testimony...and the failure to include my sister's responses.”
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