Mia Farrow accused of physical abuse
In her first extended comments on the fraught history between director Woody Allen and the Farrow family, Soon-Yi Previn described her adopted mother, Mia Farrow, as a demeaning and sometimes violent figure. The remarks, made in a lengthy New York magazine article published online Sunday, represent the latest escalation in a decades-long dispute about allegations that Allen molested his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow.
Previn staunchly defended her husband, saying that “what’s happened to Woody is so upsetting, so unjust.” Previn said Farrow had “taken advantage of the #MeToo movement and paraded Dylan as a victim.”
In the article, Previn said Farrow would try to teach her the alphabet with wooden blocks but throw them at her if she made a mistake, and tip her upside down by her feet “to get the blood to drain to my head” because she thought it would make her smarter. She also alleged that Farrow would slap her across the face or spank her with a hairbrush.
Dylan Farrow, her brother Ronan Farrow and six of their siblings responded Sunday with a joint statement saying that they stood by their mother, who had been “unfairly attacked.”
In the story, Previn said her affair with Allen began in the fall of 1991 when he kissed her while they watched a movie together at home. She was a 21year-old freshman in college and Allen was 56. By January 1992, Mia Farrow discovered nude photos of Previn that Allen had taken.
Allen and Previn married on Dec. 23, 1997.