I’m thinking that was the case. Watching her reaction, while she seemed a little overwhelmed she didn’t seem at all surprised, so I have a feeling it was already agreed upon, the question just hadn’t been “popped” in a formal way.

Weirdly, what I find striking from the excerpts is the makeup thing. She is attempting to present herself as this totally autonomous woman with her own agency from a very young age, etc. and then she gives this pathetic, I still don’t know how to wear makeup at 47 because mommy never taught me. It comes off as deeply…

I have a different, but related take. I think it was all acting out her rage with Mia, until the divorce and Dylan’s abuse “made it real,” and she had to grapple with the reality/consequences of what she’d done, which was hook up with a monster who abused her sister. She mentions that it was really the abuse…

OMG did you read that list? They had to do CHORES! They had to CLEAN and GROCERY SHOP! They had RESPONSIBILITIES! OH THE HORROR!

I mean you have to keep in mind that Woody Allen was manipulating both Mia Farrow and Soon-Yi at that time.

All a 21-year-old has to do to “impress” an older “literary” type man is agree with the opinions he spoon-feeds her.  “Oh I agree that movie you just introduced me to is the best ever!”  “Oh I totally like the music you just introduced me to!  It’s my favorite!”  “Oh all the writers you like are my favorites too!”  He…

Oh, fuck you.

It’s irrelevant as far as I am concerned. Maybe Soon-Yi is telling the truth about her mother based on her experiences, but she is an unreliable narrator about Allen and her comments about Mia have no bearing on Allen’s treatment of other young girls.

Most of May/December romances dont start when one party is attracted to the daughter of his then girlfriend.

So many people are picking apart what age Soon Yi was when the affair with Allen started. May I present a theory: it doesn’t matter a damn how old Soon Yi was the first time they kissed or had sex. Allen started taking her to ball games at 17. When he began to spend more and more time with her, THAT is when the affair…

It’s possible that Mia was indeed a terrible person. But that does not take away from Dylan’s accusation.

Exactly. I think she thinks that painting Mia as an abusive mother somehow proves that she manipulated Dylan to fabricate her claim of sexual assault, but it really doesn’t do that. All it does is make me feel worse for Previn and make the timeline and development of her relationship with Allen seem more problematic…

When people say they were abused as children, we should take that seriously. It in no way exonerates Woody Allen to consider the possibility that Mia Farrow was also a (different kind of) terrible parent.

Wow. I hope Soon-Yi describes more of Woody’s grooming techniques so we can all be more aware of how pedos condition their victims. 

Did anyone else notice that it seemed like Woody was present for most of the interviews that formed this article? That seems concerning, as if Soon-Yi wasn’t permitted to speak on her own.

It’s totally uncomfortable that the journalist is a long time friend of allens........ Like we get it this piece is totally biased. Fuck the new york mag article, it's author and Allen. They can go to hell. Soon-Yi is complicit and far from young.... Yet I feel like she's being manipulated. 

It is completely possible that Mia Farrow was a shit mother to Soon-Yi AND Woody Allen groomed her AND he abused his daughter. The piece only serves to distract and muddy the waters, there’s nothing here that helps Woody Allen’s defense. 

WOW.

Nope. Fuck this all to fucking hell. So disappointed that NY mag signed on for this, and with Daphne Merkin of all people. They’re supposed to be better than that.

Read the article. Promptly felt the need to shower. What a horrible, awful situation. This interview did not do what you think it did, Soon-Yi.