Soon-Yi Previn has broken her silence about the allegations of sexual misconduct against her husband, filmmakerWoody Allen, in a new interview in which she also discusses their 20-year marriage.
“What’s happened to Woody is so upsetting, so unjust,” Previn, 47, said. “[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.”
A Farrow family spokesperson refuted Previn’s allegations of physical abuse and neglect to the magazine. A rep for Mia did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
“Woody Allen molested me when I was seven years old, part of a documented pattern of inappropriate, abusive touching that led a judge to say there was no evidence I was coached and that it was unsafe for me to be in Woody Allen’s presence,” Dylan claimed in her statement. “The author has written about her friendship and infatuation with Woody Allen. The idea of letting a friend of an alleged predator write a one-sided piece attacking the credibility of his victim is disgusting.”
Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn.Rob Kim/FilmMagic
In Ronan’s statement he supported his mother, writing in part, “I owe everything I am to Mia Farrow, she is a devoted mom who went through hell for her family, all while creating a loving home for us.”
Dylan Farrow.Kristina Bumphrey/Starpix/REX/Shutterstock
Also in the lengthyNew York Magazineinterview, Previn calls her husband — who she married in 1997 and with whom she shares two children — “a poor, pathetic thing.”
“He’s so naïve and trusting, he was probably putty in [Mia’s] hands,” Previn claimed. “One thinks that he’s so brilliant … and yet on certain things he’s so shockingly naïve it makes your head spin and you think he’s putting it on. Mia waswaaayover his head.”
The couple’s relationship is detailed as well, with Previn saying their lives are like a “parallel play.”
“We eat breakfast together — we eat all our meals together, and we’ve never spent a night apart since we married — and then I work out, either Pilates or my trainer or the treadmill,” Previn said to the outlet. “I also do yoga. I read the New YorkTimesand point out pieces for Woody to read. Then we have lunch, and in the afternoon I’ll see a friend and go to a museum or shopping or whatever.”
Allen was never charged in relation to Dylan’s accusations, which shefirst made during his explosive split from Mia in 1992, though a Connecticut prosecutor said there wasprobable cause for a criminal case.
Dylan made her claims public in 2014, and again last year in the wake of the #MeToo movement, when sheasked in an op-ed why Allen had been spared in the sexual harassment reckoning sweeping Hollywood.
In June, Allen referenced Dylan’s accusations while speaking out about his support of the #MeToo movement in an interview withArgentinian news program Periodismo Para Todos.
Still, Allen said he supports the movement. “I feel when they find people who harass innocent women and men, it’s a good thing that they’re exposing them,” he explained. “But you know I, I should be the poster boy for the Me Too movement. Because I have worked in movies for 50 years. I’ve worked with hundreds of actresses and not a single one—big ones, famous ones, ones starting out—have ever ever suggested any kind of impropriety at all. I’ve always had a wonderful record with them.”
source: people.com
