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- COVER STORIES, Page 61WOODY ALLENSoon-Yi: Woody Was Not My Father
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- By WALTER ISAACSON and Soon-Yi Farrow Previn
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- Q. How old are you?
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- A. This October I will be 22. Look at my driver's license
- and passport. I was not raped, molested or manipulated as Mia
- has hysterically charged, nor am I retarded or mentally slow as
- she would have you believe. I am at college majoring in
- psychology, and although she cut off all my education funds and
- living money, I have made arrangements to complete my studies
- and graduate.
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- Q. Did you consider Woody Allen to be a father figure?
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- A. To think that Woody was in any way a father or
- stepfather to me is laughable. My parents are Andre Previn and
- Mia, but obviously they're not even my real parents. I came to
- America when I was seven. I was never remotely close to Woody.
- He was someone who was devoted exclusively to his own children
- and to his work, and we never spent a moment together. We
- rarely ever spoke, and were polite but uninterested in one
- another. The fact is I really had no interest in knowing him
- better, nor he me.
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- Q. When did your relationship change?
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- A. When I was 20 and he had no one to go to a basketball
- game with and I wanted to see one. By that time his
- relationship with Mia was long done, and they were going through
- the motions. They were friendly but rarely went out, and apart
- from when they worked together or played with their children,
- had little to do with one another.
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- Q. What is your relationship with Mia Farrow?
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- A. I don't go home because Mia can be and has been violent
- toward me. I will not go into details, but her treatment of me
- was hardly maternal, even given our current problems. She is
- not who she pretends to be, certainly not the kind of mother
- [people think], and while my brothers and sisters are still
- dependent on her, they will say things and pretend to feelings
- I know full well not to be true. There is no question I owe Mia
- a great deal for adopting me. For that gesture I still love her.
- But responsibility does not stop at the act of adopting. I
- truly regret Mia chose to burden all the children with these
- adult problems.
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