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Soon-Yi Previn has sounded off about the Woody Allen abuse allegations for the first time in an interview that has comes at a seemingly very convient time.

Recently Amazon Studios announced Amazon Studios says there is no release date for Woody Allen’s new film “A Rainy Day In New York.” This announcement came on the heels of renewed interest in Dylan Farrow’s allegations of sexual abuse against Allen. Woody Allen has been making movies for over 40 years, and never had an issue finding a distributer.

“Rainy Day In New York”, starred several actors who gave their earnings for the film to different activist groups that fight for woman’s causes. I don’t want to profit from my work on the film, and to that end, I am going to donate my entire salary to three charities: TIME’S UP, The LGBT Center in New York and RAINN.”, said Timothée Chalame one of the stars who gave his salary up.

Previn, longtime wife of Allen and adoptive daughter of Mia Farrow, told the magazine Vulture what she thought of the years-long debate about her husband and Dylan Farrow’s accusations of childhood sexual molestation by him.

As Previn noted, she “was never interested in writing a Mommie Dearest, getting even with Mia,” but wants to defend her husband. “[W]hat’s happened to Woody is so upsetting, so unjust. [Mia] has taken advantage of the #MeToo movement and paraded Dylan as a victim. And a whole new generation is hearing about it when they shouldn’t.”

As reported by the web site Consequences of Sound, Previn said her mother was prone to “bone-chilling tempers. She paints a picture of a woman who would manipulate her children against each other (including Dylan and her brother, Ronan Farrow, who notably broke the Harvey Weinstein sexual assault story that kicked off the #MeToo movement) as revenge for stealing Allen away from her. This includes claims Mia coached Dylan on what to say when accusing him of molestation, threw objects at Previn, and so on.”

Added Previn, “It pains me to recall instances in which I witnessed siblings, some blind or physically disabled, dragged down a flight of stairs to be thrown into a bedroom or a closet, then having the door locked from the outside.”

Back in January of this year, Dylan Farrow detailed her allegations of sexual assault at the hands of her father, Woody Allen, in a lengthy interview with Gayle King that aired on Thursday’s edition of “CBS This Morning.”

According to Variety, Farrow “recounted her story of being touched by Allen, her adoptive father, in August 1992. She also said she experienced other incidents of inappropriate behavior with her father, including him asking her to come into bed with him when he was wearing only underwear. Allen has once again strongly denied the allegations.”

“It was very momentous for me to see this conversation finally carried into a public setting,” Farrow said of the Time’s Up and #MeToo movements. “Because I have been saying this – I have been repeating my accusations unaltered for over 20 years and I have been systematically shut down, ignored, or discredited. If they can’t acknowledge the accusations of one survivor how are they going to stand for all of us?”

Many are rushing to Previn’s defense. As columnist Hadley Freeman wrote in The Guardian, “The first, and most obvious, thing to say is that Soon-Yi Previn has every right to tell her story, and any publication has the right to publish it. Obvious, and yet, obviously, not the opinion of everyone.”

By Howard M. Riell

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