I should be the poster boy of # MeToo: Allen
Buenos Aires: American filmmaker Woody Allen has backed the # MeToo movement against sexual harassment and said he would have been a “poster boy” for the cause if he hadn’t been unfairly maligned.
“It is a good thing they are exposing them,” Allen told Argentina’s Canal 13 television network.
The publication of bombshell articles about movie mogul Harvey Weinstein in October has triggered a watershed moment that has since felled the careers of dozens of powerful men across a variety of industries. “I should be the poster boy of the MeToo movement. I’ve worked in movies for 50 years, I’ve worked with hundreds of actresses, and not a single one has ever suggested any kind of impropriety at all,” he continued, adding that the women working in production in his films had all been paid same as men.
The 82- year- old actor and director said that he was frustrated he was being bracketed with abusers exposed by the movement over allegations he molested his adoptive daughter, Dylan Farrow, in 1992 when she was seven years old. He was cleared of the charges, first leveled by his then- wife Mia Farrow, after two separate monthslong investigations.
“People who have been accused by 20 women, 50 women, 100 women of
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abuse and abuse and abuse, and I — who was only accused by one woman in a child custody case, which was looked at and proven to be untrue — I get lumped in with these people,” Allen said. “This is just so crazy. This is something that has been thoroughly looked at 25 years ago by all the authorities.”