YOU’RE A VICTIM
Soon-Yi, recognize Woody as the sicko he is
Dear Soon-Yi, Sure, your husband, Woody Allen, is a comic genius. But then again, so is Louis C.K.
Yes, your husband created some of the most iconic, beloved, breakthrough films of the 20th century. But so did Roman Polanski.
Of course, your husband made some of the greatest thought-provoking movies of all time. So did Harvey Weinstein.
No, your husband has not been treated unfairly. Quite the opposite. But you are in too deep to even consider it.
OK, perhaps your childhood with Mia Farrow WAS as horrific as you recently told your friend Daphne Merkin in New York magazine it was — although there is no evidence from any of your siblings that your mom ever abused you after she saved you as a child from life on the streets in Seoul.
Make no mistake, the husband you defend as being so unfairly treated now was allegedly such a child hunter back then, according to your stepsister Dylan (whom he adopted), that he abused her in the attic of your mother’s home. Even the idea of such perversion is still mind-blowing after all these years.
And yet you say your 35years-older husband is the one being treated unfairly? It’s more like he was treated fairly unfairly for decades.
You complain of abuse while you were living in luxury with your mother and 13 siblings, and yet fiercely defend your husband against Dylan, who has written about the sexual abuse she says she suffered at his hands. Hell, he had a sick relationship with you — when you were still living under your mother’s roof.
Do you think it’s for no reason that your brother Ronan has made outing sexual abusers his life’s work?
If your mother, Mia, had one failing as a mother, it was in trusting her companion and lover to be around her children even though he announced to the world in funny movie after funny movie that he had a disgustingly unhealthy lust for young girls.
In retrospect, there is nothing funny about old men lusting after innocent young girls — of which you were one. But then again, we all laughed about the casting couch, too, until #MeToo showed us it was no laughing matter and that it was, and is, a crime.
In “Manhattan” his character is a 42-year-old guy dating a 17-year-old girl. He even brags to people that his girlfriend is still in high school. In “Love and Death,” a character named Father Andre jokes, "I have lived many years and, after many trials and tribulations, I have come to the conclusion that the best thing is . . . blond 12-year-old girls. Two of them, whenever possible.”
But unlike many of the Hollywood perverts, your husband went on living the good life, and making movies — too many of them STILL about old men and young girls. And being lauded for it.
If that’s unfair, it’s because it’s so wrong.
In fact, your husband has continued to this day to make movies about underage girls and older men — taking it so far that there is reportedly a perverse sex scene in his latest, “A Rainy Day in New York,” in which a 44-year-old man (Jude Law) has sex with a 15year-old girl (Elle Fanning).
After the fact and after the #MeToo movement, Amazon reportedly shelved the movie. Boo-hoo, your husband wasted $25 million of other people’s money. Like they didn’t know what the movie was about or the accusations that have dogged him.
Thing is? You, too, are a victim — but one of your own making.
At 47, you still haven’t figured that out. You still denounce your mother as the horror while you sleep with the enemy, who happens to be your mother’s former lover.