American filmmaker Woody Allen has turned down the allegations of sexually abusing his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow.
In an interview filmed in July 2020, the filmmaker denied the 1992 allegations by then-seven-year-old Dylan Farrow that she was abused by the filmmaker. “Nothing that I ever did with Dylan in my life could be misconstrued as that,” he maintained.
“Why would a guy who’s 57 years old? I never was accused of anything in my life, I’m suddenly going to drive up in the middle of a contentious custody fight at Mia [Farrow]‘s country home (with) a seven-year-old girl. It just – on the surface, I didn’t think it required an investigation, even,” he said.
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“It’s so preposterous, and yet the smear has remained. And they still prefer to cling to if not the notion that I molested Dylan, the possibility that I molested her. Nothing that I ever did with Dylan in my life could be misconstrued as that,” he continued.
He said that he beliefs she thinks it. “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,” said Allen. The interview came days after the release of a four-part HBO docu-series, titled Allen v. Farrow, regarding Farrow’s allegations against the filmmaker.
