ALL IN THE FAMILY

Woody Allen Makes Rare Comments About Marriage to Ex’s Daughter

Allen was in a long-term relationship with Mia Farrow before marrying her daughter, Soon-Yi Previn.

Woody Allen is speaking out about his marriage to Mia Farrow’s daughter, Soon-Yi Previn. “If anyone had told me years ago that I would be married to a girl much younger than me with no background in New York, or none of the similar interests growing up, and that she’d be a Korean orphan, I would have said, ‘No chance. I’m going to be married to a New York actress,’” Allen, 89, told the Wall Street Journal. “But it didn’t work out that way.” The director—who met Previn, 54, while in a relationship with her adoptive mother—also described his wife as “disciplined,” “decisive,” a “larger-than-life personality,” and a “wonderful mother” who “finds [his] writing style high-falutin.” Allen was with Farrow from 1980 until 1992, when she discovered his affair with her daughter. He married Previn in 1997, and the couple shares two adopted daughters, Bechet, 26, and Manzie, 25. Allen is also father to three of Previn’s younger siblings: son Ronan, 37, and adopted children Moses, 47, and Dylan, 40. Dylan has accused Allen of sexually abusing her as a child, which he denies. Previn, meanwhile, has accused her mother of physical abuse and of pressuring her sister to make false allegations. Allen told WSJ he has “many regrets,” but they’re all film-related.