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Drew Barrymore tells Dylan Farrow she regrets working with Woody Allen: ‘I was gaslit’
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Drew Barrymore regrets working with Woody Allen on the film Everyone Says I Love You.
The actress was 21 when she starred in the 1996 musical comedy directed by Allen, as part of a cast including Julia Roberts, Alan Alda, Edward Norton, Goldie Hawn, Natasha Lyonne and Natalie Portman.
In an interview with Dylan Farrow, Allen’s adoptive daughter who has accused the director of molestation, Drew said that she was ‘gaslit’ into starring in the movie.
Speaking on her chat show The Drew Barrymore Show, Drew ‘explained herself’, saying: ‘I worked with Woody Allen. I did a film with him in 1996 called, Everyone Says I Love You, and there was no higher career calling card than to work with Woody Allen.
The 46-year-old then said that having her daughters Olive, eight, and Frankie, seven, with ex Will Kopelman made her reconsider her stance.
She said: ‘Then I had children and it changed me because I realised that I was one of the people who was basically gaslit into not looking at a narrative beyond what I was being told and I see what is happening in the industry now and that is because of you making that brave choice. So thank you for that.’
Dylan, 35, said: ‘Thank you, hearing what you just said, I am trying not to cry right now.
‘But like, it is just so meaningful because it’s easy for me to say, “Of course you shouldn’t work with him, he’s a jerk, he’s a monster,” but I just find it incredibly brave and incredibly generous that you would say to me that my story and what I went through was important enough to you to reconsider that.’
Dylan, the daughter of Mia Farrow, sexually molested her when she was seven years old.
Allen, 85, has repeatedly and strenuously denied the allegation.
Drew is the latest in a line of stars who has said they regret working with Allen due to the allegation against him.
Kate Winslet, who starred in Allen’s 2017 film Wonder Wheel, told Vanity Fair in 2020: ‘It’s like, what the f*** was I doing working with Woody Allen and Roman Polanski? It’s unbelievable to me now how those men were held in such high regard, so widely in the film industry and for as long as they were. It’s f***ing disgraceful.
‘And I have to take responsibility for the fact that I worked with them both. I can’t turn back the clock. I’m grappling with those regrets but what do we have if we aren’t able to just be f***ing truthful about all of it?’
Stars including Colin Firth and Freida Pinto said they will never work with the Annie Hall director again, while Timothée Chalamet and Rebecca Hall donated their salaries from the film A Rainy Day in New York to Time’s Up.
Speaking about stars who denounce him, Allen told CBS Sunday Morning: ‘I think they’re well-meaning but they’re foolish. All they’re doing is they’re persecuting a perfectly innocent person and they’re enabling this lie.’
The allegation against Allen is explored in the HBO documentary Allen vs Farrow, which Dylan and members of her family contributed to.
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