Woody Allen has compared the molestation allegations that have been made against him to people eating kale.
The veteran director, who has denied molesting his adoptive daughter Dylan Farrow for years, said that people's decision to denounce him is "like everybody suddenly eating kale."
Some of those who have now distanced themselves from the 84-year-old because of the allegations include Mira Sorvino, Greta Gerwig, Colin Firth, and Rebecca Hall.
Allen's wife defended him against the allegations made by Dylan:Allen was first accused of abuse after it emerged in 1992 that he was having an affair with his long term partner Mia Farrow's adopted daughter, Soon-Yi Previn, who was 21 at the time. He was 57.
Farrow then went on to allege that he had sexually assaulted her then-seven-year-old daughter Dylan.
In an interview with the Guardian this week about the allegations, Allen said: "I assume that for the rest of my life a large number of people will think I was a predator."
Allen said of the people who have since said they regret working with him: "It's silly. The actors have no idea of the facts and they latch on to some self-serving, public, safe position. Who in the world is not against child molestation?
"That's how actors and actresses are, and (denouncing me) became the fashionable thing to do, like everybody suddenly eating kale."
He added: "You can give them the facts over and over. But the facts don't matter. For some reason, emotionally, it's important for them to buy into the story."
In 2018, after the #MeToo movement dramatically changed how people think about sexual abuse, Dylan said that she felt like her allegations against her adoptive father hadn't been taken seriously.
She told CBS show This Morning: "All I can do is speak my truth and hope… that someone will believe me instead of just hearing."
In a recent interview with the Mail on Sunday, Allen, who is promoting his latest movie A Rainy Day in New York, said that he didn't care that he'd been shut out of the Hollywood establishment over the allegations.
He said: "You don't make a movie to win an award. Mozart never composed a symphony thinking about a trophy."
However, despite the severity of the allegations made against Allen, he continues to have his supporters, and Larry David, Diane Keaton, Alec Baldwin, Alan Alda, and Scarlett Johansson are among the people who have refused to denounce him.
Then, in his memoir, Apropos Of Nothing, Allen went claimed that Timothee Chalamet only distanced himself from him to improve his chances of winning an Oscar.
Allen wrote of Timothee and his co-stars Elle Fanning and Selena Gomez: "All three leads in Rainy Day were excellent and a pleasure to work with."
He went on: "Timothee afterward publicly stated he regretted working with me and was giving the money to charity, but he swore to my sister he needed to do that as he was up for an Oscar for Call Me By Your Name, and he and his agent felt he had a better chance of winning if he denounced me, so he did."
A week before Oscar nominations were released, per the Metro, Chalamet released a statement on Instagram on 16 January 2018, stating that he did not want to profit from his work on A Rainy Day in New York.
He has not publically commented on the claims made by Allen.
