Woody Allen 's wife has finally broken her silence over the #MeToo sexual assault allegations against him and the family rift with her adopted mother Mia Farrow .
Soon-Yi Previn has kept quiet over the scandals surrounding the Hollywood director and their relationship for more than 20 years.
Previn, 47, was born in South Korea and came to the US aged seven where she was adopted by actress Farrow and her former husband, composer André Previn.
She married Allen in 1997 (when he was 62 and she was 27) five years after their affair was discovered by Farrow, the director's then girlfriend, and viewed by many as Previn's stepfather.
The revelation sparked a bitter custody battle between Farrow and Allen over their adopted children Dylan and Moses and biological son Ronan.
Dylan Farrow, now 33, has repeatedly accused her stepfather of sexually abusing her when she was seven years old.
Addressing the accusations in an exclusive interview with New York magazine website Vulture , Previn said: "I was never interested in writing a Mommie Dearest, getting even with Mia — none of that.
"But what’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."
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Dylan Farrow alleges that she was molested when Allen visited her mother’s Connecticut home in August 1992, in the middle of their custody fight.
Appearing on CBS show 'This Morning' earlier this year, she told Gayle King: "I was taken to a small attic crawlspace.
"He instructed me to lay down on my stomach and play with my brother’s toy train that was set up. And he sat behind me in the doorway and as I played with the toy train I was sexually assaulted."
She added that Allen "often asked me to get into bed with him when he had only his underwear on and sometimes when only I had my underwear on."
Allen, 82, has repeatedly denied the accusation, which was first made in 1992 in the midst of his bitter split with Mia Farrow.
He claims both Dylan and Mia Farrow used the #MeToo and Time's Up sexual misconduct campaigns that has swept Hollywood to renew the accusation.
"Even though the Farrow family is cynically using the opportunity afforded by the Time’s Up movement to repeat this discredited allegation, that doesn’t make it any more true today than it was in the past," Allen said in a statement.
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"I never molested my daughter – as all investigations concluded a quarter of a century ago," he added. Allen was never charged.
Dylan Farrow told Vulture in a statement that any implication she was manipulated by her mother Mia was "offensive."
She added: "This only serves to revictimize me. Thanks to my mother, I grew up in a wonderful home."
Dylan's brother Ronan, who first exposed the Harvey Weinstein scandal, also issued a statement in support of his sister.
He wrote: "I owe everything I am to Mia Farrow. She is a devoted mom who went through hell for her family all while creating a loving home for us.
"But that has never stopped Woody Allen and his allies from planting stories that attack and vilify my mother to deflect from my sister’s credible allegation of abuse.
"As a brother and a son, I’m angry that New York Magazine would participate in this kind of a hit job, written by a longtime admirer and friend of Woody Allen’s.
"As a journalist, I’m shocked by the lack of care for the facts, the refusal to include eyewitness testimony that would contradict falsehoods in this piece, and the failure to include my sister’s complete responses.
"Survivors of abuse deserve better."
Previn gave an interview to Daphne Merkin, a long-time friend of Woody Allen.
She addressed the depiction of her as unintelligent and brainwashed by Allen.
In a rare statement in 1992, she said: "I’m not a retarded little underage flower who was raped, molested, and spoiled by some evil stepfather — not by a long shot."
Speaking to Merkin, Allen added: "I am a pariah. People think that I was Soon-Yi’s father, that I raped and married my underaged, retarded daughter."
A New York Magazine spokesperson defended the story, saying: "Soon-Yi Previn is telling her story for the first time, and we hope people will withhold judgment until they have read the feature.
"Daphne Merkin’s relationship to Woody Allen is disclosed and is a part of the story, as is Soon-Yi’s reason for speaking out now. I would add that Daphne approached Soon-Yi about doing this piece, not vice-versa.
"We reached out to both Mia and Dylan Farrow for comment; Dylan chose to speak through her representative. The story is transparent about being told from Soon-Yi’s point of view."