Woody Allen Rehashes Old Arguments, Says He’s ‘Perfectly Innocent’ in CBS News Interview

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In Woody Allen’s first interview on American television in nearly 30 years, conducted in July and put up Sunday on Paramount Plus, the filmmaker again denied that he had sexually abused his d…

. The interview, with CBS News’ Lee Cowan, skims the surface of the decades-old allegations against Allen, and has been released after a months-long today after the conclusion of the HBO docuseries “Allen v. Farrow,” which once again put Dylan Farrow’s accusations into the spotlight.

At the top of the program, Cowan introduced it by saying that Allen had once been revered, but that “today, Woody Allen is reviled by many.” After saying how rare interviews with Allen are, Cowan said: “Some months ago, Woody Allen released a book, and we were offered an opportunity to talk with him on the patio of his Manhattan townhouse. To be honest, the swirling controversy, the storm of opinion, both pro and con, we gave careful consideration whether to do this interview at all.

The 35-minute program, packaged with Gayle King’s 2018 interview with Dylan Farrow, along with a new segment by Erin Moriarty about how art should be evaluated when artists have been accused of reprehensible behavior, was mostly a rehash of the story. Allen, as always, denies everything to Cowan: “It’s so preposterous, and yet the smear has remained and they still prefer to cling to if not the notion that I molested Dylan, then the possiblity that I molested her.

 

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he's currently married to his daughter. there is no way for him to be innocent. jfc.

Cause money makes everybody innocent

Why don’t you write Farrows rehash old accusations?

With cancel culture why can’t we cancel this perverted POS.

Winner of “Gross Person of the Week”: ...we have a tie: Ted Cruz + Woody Allen!

Dylan Farrow should own all his movies

Why does cbs cbsnews keep interviewing this rapist?

Dirty old bastard

I'm marking this 'not interested in this tweet'

It's not an 'old argument', it's the truth. Woody was probed by the police, child services, NY social services, 3 family courts, medical examiner, polygraph examiner, two teams of abuse experts, sex crimes expert, adoption agency. Not one bought Mia’s story: it was all lies.

When is your interview with Dylan Farrow CBSSunday?

If he’s telling the truth, why would his arguments/story change?

.. I hv said this before, he is a filmmaker.. if he is so fookin innocent, why don’t he make his own doc n show all evidences that support his innocence instead of sitting on some up-his-as fans’ questionable YT vids.. can’t.. well then 😷

.. um, ofc he does.. what a fookin loser paedo WoodyAllenisguilty 😷

And the Farrows don't rehash old arguments? Love your unbiased journalism, Variety. /s

I don’t believe how many people in these comments stick up for a dirty old fucking nonce..why because you liked his movies?Or because he’s happily married (his step daughter) not long legal at the time herself when they started fucking and he’d known her since before that

CBS should be ashamed and of course Allen is going to say that.

He pissed off the wrong woman clearly, one who had eloped with an old man when young herself but wouldn't suffer her adopted daughter to what mom did when she was young. Former mafia wife, Ms Farrow.

Well, nobody's perfect.

He pissed off the wrong woman clearly, one who had eloped with an old man when young herself but wouldn't suffet her adopted daughter to what mom did when she was young. Former mafia wife, Ms Farrow.

Never have liked Woody as an actor... JMO... as for the “other” things... probably true... 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

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