He’s trying to distract.
This is a woman scorned, this is an unhinged woman that’s Woody’s narrative."
“Don’t forget, Woody Allen at that time had some really high-powered people in his court…
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He had a very powerful PR machine behind him.
They were doing a great job painting Mia Farrow as a scorned woman who would say anything.”
In the midst of this, authorities began to look into the sexual abuse allegation.
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“And feeling like the more I said the same thing, that it was the wrong answer…
If I change a word here, they say I’m being inconsistent.
If I use exactly the same words that I used every other time, I was coached.”
“Mia Farrow was actually pretty careful in her questions,” says psychologist Anna Salter.
“There were no overt suggestions, like, ‘He molested you, didn’t he?’…
And Dylan says, ‘No.’
She’s very consistent in her story.”
(Sawyer did not respond to the filmmakers' requests to be interviewed.)
I think you did get a sense of his anger with Mia Farrow."
And his filmmaking career continued, more or less unaffected, for the next two decades.
What matters is what’s believed."
