Memoir convinces Larry David of Woody Allen’s good character

COMEDIAN Larry David has voiced his support for Woody Allen after reading the filmmaker’s new memoir, saying: “It’s hard to walk away... thinking that this guy did anything wrong.”

Apropos of Nothing, Allen’s autobiography, refutes allegations by Dylan Farrow, his adopted daughter, that he molested her as a child.

David, who starred in Allen’s 2009 film Whatever Works, praised the book in The New York Times.

“It’s great, it’s a fantastic book, so funny,” he said.

“You feel like you’re in the room with him and, yeah, it’s just a great book and it’s hard to walk away after reading that book thinking that this guy did anything wrong.”

Allen, 84, faced difficulty in getting the book published following an outcry from the Metoo movement and public criticism from Dylan and her brother Ronan Farrow. It was dropped shortly before its intended release by publisher Hachette Book Group, but later picked up and published by Arcade Publishing last month.

Allen has long denied sexually abusing Dylan. In the book, he claims the accusations arose from what he called his former partner Mia Farrow’s “Ahablike quest” for revenge.

He wrote: “I never laid a finger on Dylan, never did anything to her that could be even misconstrued as abusing her; it was a total fabrication from start to finish.”

Allen described a visit to Mia Farrow’s house in Connecticut in August 1992, the period in which he is accused of molesting Dylan.

Allen acknowledged briefly placing his head on the then seven-year-old’s lap, and wrote: “I certainly didn’t do anything improper to her. I was in a room full of people watching TV midafternoon.”