Woody Allen says he has no plans to read his son's essay about assault claims

Woody Allen has no plans to read son's essay.
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Filmmaker Woody Allen is not giving into his son Ronan Farrow's call for Hollywood to finally address the rape allegations against him. At a Cannes Film Festival luncheon Thursday, Allen admitted that he had not yet read Ronan's editorial in The Hollywood Reporter, published Wednesday, which lambasts the silence of both stars and the media over the accusations. Dylan Farrow, Ronan's sister and Allen's adopted daughter, publicly accused their father of abuse in a 2014 essay in The New York Times, though rumors — always consistently denied by Allen — have persisted for years.

"I never read anything about me," Allen said. "Any of these interviews I do, anything. I said everything I had to say about that whole issue in The New York Times, I don't know if you read it, some time ago. I have moved so far past that. You know, I never think about it. I work, and that's the end of it for me. I said I was never gonna comment on it again because I could just go on endlessly." In an opinion piece published in The New York Times in 2014, Allen dismissed the allegations as part of a custody battle with his ex-wife, Mia Farrow, and called the accusations "so ludicrous" that he didn't even bother to hire a lawyer when he first heard about it years ago.

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