Dylan Farrow slams Scarlett Johansson's defence of Woody Allen

After Scarlett Johansson said she believed and supported Woody Allen amid long-standing molestation allegations in a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, his adoptive daughter Dylan Farrow is fighting back.In the new interview with THR, Johansson said, "I love Woody. I believe him, and I would work with him anytime." Having worked together on Match Point, Scoop and Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Johansson said that she’s standing by the famed director. "I see Woody whenever I can, and I have had a lot of conversations with him about it," said Johansson, referring to Farrow’s claims that Allen sexually abused her as a child."I have been very direct with him, and he’s very direct with me. He maintains his innocence, and I believe him." While other actors, including David Krumholtz, Greta Gerwig, Mira Sorvino, Timothee Chalamet and Rebecca Hall  have apologized for working with Allen (Chalamet and Hall donated their salaries from Allen’s A Rainy Day In New York to the Time’s Up movement), Johansson has squarely sided with the writer-director. "It’s hard because it’s a time where people are very fired up, and understandably," said Johansson. "Things needed to be stirred up, and so people have a lot of passion and a lot of strong feelings and are angry, and rightfully so. It’s an intense time."Farrow tweeted her response to Johansson’s interview saying, "Because if we’ve learned anything from the past two years it’s that you definitely should believe male predators who ‘maintain their innocence’ without question."

Because if we’ve learned anything from the past two years it’s that you definitely should believe male predators who “maintain their innocence” without question. Scarlett has a long way to go in understanding the issue she claims to champion. https://t.co/S1NmttL9tJ

— Dylan Farrow (@RealDylanFarrow) September 5, 2019

Johansson, who has been a vocal supporter of the #MeToo and Time’s Up movement, including speaking out against James Franco after sexual misconduct allegations were levied against the actor in 2018, has yet to respond to Farrow’s tweet. And she probably won’t. But the women of The View did discuss the situation and were split on their support of Allen.Joy Behar, who worked with Allen on the series Crisis in Six Scenes, offered her take on things: "When somebody is accused of such a heinous crime as child molestation, you say to yourself, 'What do I believe?'" Citing an investigation that was done following Farrow’s claims of abuse, Behar said, "The Connecticut State Police brought in an investigative team from the Yale New Haven hospital, all right? Their six-month long inquiry, which included medical examinations, concluded that Dylan had not been molested."Behar’s co-host and former sex crimes prosecutor Sunny Hostin then stepped in to point out that Allen has not been exonerated of all charges relating to his abusive behaviour towards Farrow, pointing out that in 1993 a judge ruled that Farrow had to be removed from the home where Allen lived because he "found that she had to be protected against his advances towards her." Farrow thanked Sunny for her support, noting that some crucial pieces of information were left out of the segment.

@JoyVBehar saying that the experts have exonerated Woody Allen is utterly false and a truly abhorrent mischaracterization. Thank you to @sunny for pushing back on the false narrative Woody Allen has tried so hard to perpetuate.

— Dylan Farrow (@RealDylanFarrow) September 5, 2019

Johansson is currently promoting two films which will be screening as part of TIFF—Marriage Story and Jojo Rabbit⁠—and her solo Avengers flick Black Widow comes out in 2020.