Woody Allen and his wife Soon-Yi Previn arrive at the Cannes Film Festival on May 11, 2016 for the screening of his film "Cafe Society".(Photo: ALBERTO PIZZOLI / AFP / Getty Images)

Soon Yi Previn, the wife of Woody Allen for 20 years and the adopted daughter of Mia Farrow, broke his silence in a long and explosive interview with New York magazine.

The interview, conducted by Daphne Merkin, who acknowledges in her story that she's been a friend of Allen for over 40 years, details what Previn, 47, describes as a violent childhood, explains how his relationship with Allen started. soft girl adopted Dylan Farrow.

"What happened to Woody is so shocking, so unfair," says Previn to the magazine. Mia "took advantage of the #MeToo movement and introduced Dylan as a victim, and a new generation hears about it when she should not do it."

Merkin has already written his admiration for Allen in his 2014 book "The Fame Lunches," a collection of essays.

In 1997, Previn married Allen, 35 years old. She was brought to the United States by South Korea by Farrow and her husband, André Previn, in 1977 and adopted.

Mia and Dylan Farrow are not mentioned in the story. Ronan Farrow, whose investigative reporting in the New Yorker revealed allegations against film mogul Harvey Weinstein, set the #MeToo movement in motion.

The Farrow family has denounced the report in statements sent to the United States today by their representative, Chris Bastardi.

Dylan Farrow, who said he was contacted by New York magazine, criticized the report for "many obvious falsehoods."

"Woody Allen molested me at the age of seven, as part of a series of inappropriate and abusive touchings that prompted a judge to say that he was not safe." There was no evidence that I was coached and that it was dangerous to be present at Woody Allen. " his statement says in part. "The idea of ​​letting a friend of an alleged predator write a unilateral piece attacking the credibility of his victim is disgusting."

"None of us has ever witnessed a compassionate treatment in our home," says a statement from seven children of Farrow, including Ronan. "We reject any effort to deflect Dylan's allegation by trying to defame our mother.

Ronan Farrow described the story as "a successful job" writing that "survivors of abuse deserve better".

"As a brother and son, I am sorry that New York Magazine is involved in this kind of work, written by a longtime admirer and friend of Woody Allen," he wrote. "As a journalist, I am shocked by the lack of attention to the facts, the refusal to include eyewitness accounts that would contradict the lies of this play and the inability to print the answers to my questions. sister."

Woody Allen and actress Mia Farrow are walking on New York's 8th Avenue in January 1984. Eight years later, Allen and Soon-Yi Previn get into the business. (Photo: FRANKIE ZITHS / AP photo of the file)

Among the main allegations of the report:

► Soon-Yi did not like Mia from the beginning:"I remember the second time I saw it," says Soon-Yi. "There was great excitement and a hoop around her. And she came to me and she threw her arms around me to give me a big hug. I'm standing there, thinking: Who is this woman and can she get rid of me? She did not sound real or sincere.

► Farrow once asked her to describe on tape how she was born to a prostitute who beat her. Previn, who says he fled his biological mother to escape poverty, refused.

► Her adoptive mother thought that she was "desperately backward" and would have "arbitrarily shown her power" by slapping Soon-Yi, hitting her with a hairbrush or calling her "stupid" and "moron." Rabbit at Soon-Yi, breaking it into pieces and surprising them both. "I could see on the expression of her face that she had felt that she had gone too far. Because it could really hurt me.

► Previn says she's having a learning disability she never talked about, "because Mia made me understand that I had to be ashamed about it … She told me would also spill, holding me by the feet, to run the blood my head, because she thought – or she read it, God knows where she came with the idea – that the blood that goes to my head would make me smarter or something.

► Previn describes a "hierarchy" among Farrow's children. "She did not try to hide it," says Soon-Yi. "Mia always appreciated the intelligence and also the looks, the blond hair and the blue eyes." She states that she and her adoptive sisters were used as domestic helpers. "We did the shopping from the third year for the whole family," says Soon-Yi. "We cleaned the bathrooms, cleaned the dishes, washed and swept."

► She says that she hated Allen on sight. "I did not understand why anyone could be with such a nasty and mean person (like Mia). I thought it should be the same.

► Previn describes the beginning of his relationship with Allen as a film by Ingmar Bergman. "We were like two magnets, very attracted to each other."

► She says she did not pursue Allen. "Where can I get the nerve? He pursued me. So why did she betray her mother? "Mia has never been kind to me, never civilian. And there was a chance for someone to show me affection and to be kind to me, so of course I was delighted and ran for it.

She "regrets" that Farrow found naked Polaroids in early 1992, which Allen photographed him. "I think it would have been horrible for her," says Previn. It was a "huge betrayal on our part, a terrible thing to do, a terrible shock to inflict on it".

When Farrow confronted him about the relationship, "I – survival instinct – denied it. And then she said, "I have some pictures." So I knew that I was trapped. Of course, she slapped me, you know the way. And then she called everyone. It did not contain the situation; she just spread like wildfire. "

► Shortly after finding the Polaroids, the report states that Farrow sent Allen a Valentine's Day collage, on which she had pasted a family photo with hearts. She stuck skewers and a real knife in her heart.

Allen's sister, Letty Aronson, quotes Farrow as saying, "He took my daughter, I'll take hers."

"I said," Do not be ridiculous. (Dylan) loves Woody. A child should have a father, "Aronson told Merkin. "She said," I'm plugging it. "

Contributor: Bryan Alexander and Susan Haas

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