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Soon Yi PREVIN's 1992 Statement on Her Relationship With Woody

posted 6 years ago by prometheus1816 (1051)
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http://www.newsweek.com/soon-yi-speaks-lets-not-get-hysterical-197958

Please don't try and dramatize my relationship with Woody Allen. He was never any kind of father figure to me. I never had any dealings with him. He rarely came to our apartment before his own children were born. Even then, he never spoke and the truth is I never cared that much for him. He was always preoccupied with work and never talked to me. Not really to any of us. Only when Dylan was born did he start visiting regularly and then only to play with the baby. My own father is Andre Previn, who came to visit pretty often and took us all out frequently. When I first got friendly with Woody, he and Mia were finished with their romance and were just friends. I think Mia would have been just as angry if he had taken up with another actress or his secretary. Mia was always very hot-tempered and given to rages which terrified all the kids. They can't speak freely because they're still dependent on her. But they could really tell stories and I'm sure one day will. It's true Mia was violent with me and I have conclusive proof, but I hope she and Woody can somehow head off a custody trial. [Farrow declines to comment on the charges.] The business of him molesting Dylan is so ridiculous that I won't dignify it with a comment. Why Dylan repeats her story is another matter, and a sinister one. I was not surprised that Mia made a videotape of Dylan saying these terrible things as I think the motive is obvious, but I was stunned that the tape would somehow find its way to the TV news. I have a terrific relationship with Woody and realize it's full of dramatic overtones, but it's really quite simple. It revolves around conversations, film talk, sports talk, books and art. He's very quiet and hardworking and finds it amazing and ironic that our relationship is of such interest to people. I don't think Mia should go on adopting children and I think that all her adoptions should have been a warning signal to Woody when he met her. I don't think you can raise 11 (and soon she will have 13) children with sufficient love and care. Take it from one who's lived through it-it can't be done. Some of us got neglected, some got smothered. Anyhow, there's problems. I could say many devastating things about Mia, but I will only do it if I must in a court. From the beginning of their conflict, which I know Woody broke his neck to avoid for the kids' sake, I have refrained from commenting, but when Mia brought up child molestation and then had her sisters and mother and kids and friends parade out in public and do her dirty work for her, climaxing with that tape of Dylan being given out, I felt I had to speak at this point. I'm not a retarded little underage flower who was raped, molested and spoiled by some evil stepfather-not by a long shot. I'm a psychology major at college who fell for a man who happens to be the ex-boyfriend of Mia. I admit it's offbeat, but let's not get hysterical. The tragedy here is that, because of Mia's vindictiveness, the children must suffer. I will always have a feeling of love for her because of the opportunities she gave me, but it's hard to forgive much that followed.

Further, a blog post by a former friend of Mia Farrow, talks about the allegations:

http://thecommonills.blogspot.ca/2014/02/mia-and-her-brood-drag-whatevers-left.html

It mentions the abuse Soon Yi and her Korean-born brother Moses suffered under Mia's insanity of favouring the "White" kids over the "Brown" ones. Disgusting behaviour by this woman.

Shocking still, no one mentions Mia's brother John Villers Farrow's conviction for actually molesting and raping to little boys under the age of 10.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2478439/John-Villers-Farrow-Mia-Farrows-brother-jailed-sexually-abusing-2-boys.html

[–] [email protected] (5495) 6 years ago

Interesting how Soon Yi refers to her as Mia and never "my mother".

I never understood how the press always insisted that Woody Allen was her "adoptive father". He was no such thing. He never even lived with Mia farrow and her children. The couple obviously had a close professional relationship and they were a romantic couple.

Mia Farrow had an affair with Andre Previn and became pregnant while he was married to someone else. She had a longtime affair with Woody Allen. It's hard to believe that he was a father figure to her many children. And later she admitted that Ronan is most likely Frank Sinatra's son. Seriously!

She's free to live her life as she chooses. But I have trouble looking upon her as some saintly Madonna figure who was a wronged woman.

[–] prometheus1816 (1051) 6 years ago

I'd refer to Mia as my Momster, sooner than gift her with even calling her by her first name.

The press likes to glom onto the most salacious part of the story, not the truth. They banged that "adopted daughter" mantra for so long they can't get out of that rut. So now everyone who doesn't know the truth believes it true. Farrow didn't seem to quick to cut ties with Allen despite the initial allegations. It seems she signed a release to allow her image to be used in a Golden Globe tribute that was dedicated to him shortly after the initial allegations were filed. Plus she continued to want to work with him, attending costume fittings for a film he finally recast with another actress.

Andre Previn's wife was Dory, and shortly after the affair was revealed, Dory had to be admitted to the nut house because she had a breakdown. As for whether Ronan was Sinatra's.... Not likely. Sinatra's widow Barbara stated that he had many health issues that left him sterile. Other reports from his daughter Tina said Sinatra had a vasectomy so he couldn't possibly have been Ronan (Satchel) father.

I agree. She's clearly a nutcase and continuing to demean her daughter by making her believe Allen abused her is just wrong. Farrow needs to shut up and stop with the dog and pony show, fess up and allow Allen out from under this cloud of suspicion. He's losing respect among actors and actresses who should know better.

[–] [email protected] (5495) 6 years ago

Those last few details about Frank Sinatra make the story that Mia tells even stranger.

If he was sterile or had a vasectomy, why would Mia Farrow be advancing such a story? And why would she admit to sleeping with her ex-husband who was married to someone else WHILE she was in a relationship with Woody Allen? Huh?

She doesn't come across as an innocent victim here, just another woman who sleeps around and collected a menagerie of children which she couldn't raise properly.

I know a lot of single people adopt kids, but really! I just don't think a single person can properly give enough attention to over a dozen children. What was she compensating for?

[–] prometheus1816 (1051) 6 years ago

But then Mia has always been strange. She had a strange upbringing including not being the sole focus of her father's attention. He was an obsessive filmmaker and didn't have time for his children. That's why two of them turned out to be nutbars. I do not believe she and Sinatra "took up again". It was well known he hated her after she refused to leave "Rosemary's Baby" and do a film with him. He served her with divorce papers on the set. They never spoke again. One would think there would have been a paparazzi pic of the two of them later on in their lives. Mia just wants to hang her hat on Sinatra because he's, well.... Sinatra. Plus she has to live in the past, she has no life remember. I would love it if Allen filed suit against her for fraud for his having to pay child support all these years. But then the #MeToo movement would then accuse him of harassment.

Mia thinks she can be the new Josephine Baker who actually loved all her children. No one was left out. Mia, however, like Soon Yi said, "the children must suffer". Hell of a mother she is. (rolls eyes) As for what she's compensating for, lack of brains... proper intellect .... You figure it out.