NEWSMia Farrow Admits She Wouldn't Discourage Someone If They Wanted to Work With Ex Woody Allen Despite His Sexual Abuse Scandal
Mia Farrow said she understands why actors still work with Woody Allen.
Mia Farrow has no interest in working with ex Woody Allen after his scandals, but she doesn't frown upon any fellow actors who have chosen to team up with the director.
Farrow mentioned her former partner during her Sunday, September 1, appearance on CBS Sunday Morning.
Mia Farrow was in a relationship with Woody Allen from 1980 to 1992.
When the journalist asked the 79-year-old actress, "Are you able to separate the experience as an actor in those films from the personal trials and tribulations that would follow?" she replied, "Oh, yeah, yeah."
"I completely understand if an actor decides to work with him," she confessed. "I’m not one who’d say, 'Oh, they shouldn’t.'"
The exes' daughter Dylan accused the director of sexual abuse, which he's denied.
Allen, 88, has faced several scandals over the years, including their daughter Dylan claiming he sexually abused her when she was just 7 years old. He denied the accusations and was never charged with any crime.
The filmmaker also sparked controversy when after he and Mia split, he went on to marry her adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn.
Mia Farrow admitted she regrets bringing Woody Allen into her life.
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Mia has discussed the chaos over the years, admitting in the 2021 HBO docuseries Allen v. Farrow that romancing Woody was "the great regret of my life."
"....That I wasn't perceptive enough. It's my fault, I brought this guy into my family," she explained. "There's nothing I can do to take that away."
"I get why people can't believe it because who on Earth could believe that of Woody Allen? I couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe it," she continued. "Everybody admired Woody so much, loved him, and I did too."
The Oscar winner stirred up more controversy when he married his adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn.
Hollywood has remained divided on their stance about Allen, with actresses such as Kate Winslet and Drew Barrymore stating they would never work with him again.
After Selena Gomez and Timothee Chalamet starred in Allen's film A Rainy Day in New York — which started production in 2017 — they wound up donating their salaries upon the MeToo movement.
The Disney Channel alum donated more than $1 million to Time's Up, which exceed her salary for the flick.
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On the other hand, Javier Bardem came to the Oscar winner's defense in a 2021 interview.
"Pointing fingers at someone is very dangerous if it hasn't been legally proven. Beyond that, it's just gossip," said Bardem, who has worked with Allen in the past.
"I try to go where logic dictates, which is: Let's follow the rules that exist to establish whether someone is guilty or innocent. If the case re-opens and he is proven to be guilty, I will be the first to say, 'What a horrible thing,'" he noted. "But so far, I haven't seen that."
