When HBO, a US cable TV broadcaster, aired a documentary containing film director Woody Allen’s suspicion of’adult molestation’, Alan’s side rebelled against it, saying that it was “slandering.”
Filmmaker Woody Allen and his wife Soon-yi Previn (right) EPA=Yonhap News
According to American entertainment media on the 22nd (local time), HBO began airing a four-part documentary “Alan vs. Farrow,” alleging that Alan molested her daughter Dylan Farrow in the past.
Woody Allen adopted Dylan Farrow while living with former actress Mia Farrow.
In 2014, Dylan Farrow revealed that he had been molested by Alan when he was seven years old.
This incident drew attention again after the #MeToo (‘I was also hit’) movement broke out in the United States in 2018.
In the first episode of the documentary aired on the 21st, the testimonies of Dylan Farrow and Mia Farrow were dealt with.
Dylan Farrow said, “Alan molested me with a grooming technique. Alan came to me like a magnet and always hunted me.”
Alan and his wife, Soon-Yi Previn, made a statement that day and refuted, saying, “The HBO documentary is a slander full of lies.”
Alan broke up with Mia Farrow and married Mia Farrow’s Korean adoptee Soon-i Previn in 1997.
“The documentary makers aren’t interested in the truth,” Alan and Soon said. “The allegations of sexual harassment are completely false. Several agencies have investigated the case, but there has been no abuse at all.”
Earlier, Alan was subject to an investigation by the prosecution for sexual harassment with Dylan’s hand, but the prosecutor in charge said, “There is considerable grounds, but will not be prosecuted.”
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