Woody Allen and wife Soon-Yi Previn break the silence on the new series "
Allen vs. Farrow
" which on HBO brought to the fore the filmmaker's accusations of molesting his adopted daughter Dylan when he was seven.
Documentary makers Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick "have no interest in the truth," the couple told the Hollywood Reporter accusing the authors of "collaborating with the Farrow and their facilitators" while Woody and Soon-Yi were "given" only a few days "to offer their version.
In the first of four one-hour episodes, Dylan Farrow begins to re-enact in front of the camera the notorious accusations of incest launched in the 1990s against Allen who was her mother's partner when she was a child.
Dick and Ziering build a picture that the director started luring Dylan from a very young age.
"It doesn't matter what you think you know: this is just the tip of the iceberg," says she, now a 35-year-old woman.
"I felt trapped. He was telling me things like: we're going to Paris together. You'll be in all my movies. And then he sexually assaulted me. I concentrated on watching my brother's trains. And then ... he stopped. He was done. And we went downstairs, "he continues, evoking what he said would have happened in the attic of Mia Farrow's house in Connecticut.
"A ferocious attack full of falsehood".
So 85-year-old Woody and Soon-Yi, who is now 50, have defined the new series.
"Documentary filmmakers have no interest in the truth. They've spent years covertly collaborating with the Farrow and their facilitators."
Allen and his wife claim that they were contacted less than two months ago and that they were only given a few days to respond: "Of course they refused", reads the statement that defines the allegations as "categorically false" and recalls that "multiple agencies they investigated and found that there was no abuse, no matter how much Dylan Farrow was led to believe. "
Woody and Soon-Yi then insinuate a conflict of interest: "It's sad, but it shouldn't surprise us, that it was HBO who aired the documentary as the network has a production and business agreement with Ronan Farrow."
The only biological child of Allen and Farrow, Ronan closed a three-year deal with HBO in 2018 to produce investigative documentaries.
"Allen vs. Farrow" is not one of them, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the Harvey Weinstein investigation appears in the series only as a witness.
Ziering and Dick said they never got a response from Woody, Soon Yi and Moses, another adopted son of Allen and Farrow, who is on his father's side and accuses Mia of being a bad mom.
Documentary makers on the other hand have made no secret of having made a choice of field.
Almost too much, according to some critics, who object to the absence of key details including the suicide of two of Mia's adopted children and the conviction for pedophilia of the actress's brother, John Charles Viller-Farrow.