Soon-Yi Previn reveals how ‘fling' with Woody Allen began, describes alleged abuse by Mia Farrow

Soon-Yi Previn has become the latest soldier in the longstanding, venomous war of words between Woody Allen and his estranged one-time partner Mia Farrow.

Previn, the wife of filmmaker Allen, accused her adoptive mom of abusing her, describing her as an opportunist who took advantage of the #Metoo moment to recycle her story about his alleged sexual abuse of her daughter Dylan.

In a series of discussions with author Daphne Merkin, Previn defended her husband of 20 years and recounted the earliest days of their romance, recalling that she was a “goner” from their first kiss.

The 47-year-old opened up about her controversial marriage to the filmmaker in a New York magazine article released Sunday night, saying she was “completely attracted to him, physically and sexually.”

Previn, who was adopted from South Korea by Farrow and her then-husband composer Andre Previn at age 6, also revealed that she and her mother got along “like oil and water” and alleged that the actress had abused her.

She first met the reclusive actor when she was 10, and he was introduced to the children as Farrow's boyfriend, she said in a rare interview.

“Woody wasn't interested in meeting us children. And the feeling was mutual; we weren't interested in meeting him,” Previn told Merkin who is a friend of Allen's. “I hated him because he was with my mother, and I didn't understand why anyone could be with such a nasty, mean person. I thought he must be the same way.”

More than a decade later, during Previn's first semester at Drew University in New Jersey, their relationship, which Allen called a “fling,” became sexual.

“I think Woody liked the fact that I had chutzpah when he first kissed me and I said, ‘I wondered how long it was going to take you to make a move,' “ she said in an email to New York magazine. “From the first kiss I was a goner and loved him.”

Allen and Farrow broke up in 1992, when he and Soon-Yi became a couple. The two married in 1997.

At one point during their affair, Previn said, Farrow found nude photos of her in Allen's apartment, taken when she was 21. She “regrets” the discovery, she said, and recalls Farrow slapping her across the face and spanking her with a hairbrush, once throwing a porcelain rabbit at her.

“Mia used to write words on my arm, which was humiliating, so I'd always wear long-sleeved shirts,” Previn said. “She would also tip me upside down, holding me by my feet, to get the blood to drain to my head. Because she thought - or she read it, God knows where she came up with the notion - that blood going to my head would make me smarter or something.”

A rep for Farrow did not immediately return a request for comment.

As for Dylan Farrow's allegations that Allen sexually abused her as a child, claims revisited in light of renewed attention to sexual misconduct, Previn blamed Mia Farrow.

“What's happened to Woody is so upsetting, so unjust,” she said. “(Mia) has taken advantage of the #MeToo movement and paraded Dylan as a victim. And a whole new generation is hearing about it when they shouldn't.”

Mia Farrow's children jumped to her defense after the article published. Dylan Farrow said Sunday night that the piece included “bizarre fabrications.”

“Woody Allen molested me when I was seven years old, part of a documented pattern of inappropriate, abusive touching that lad a judge to say there was no evidence I was coached and that it was unsafe for me to be in Woody Allen's presence.

“My mother never coached me, but she did stand by me, even when Woody Allen unleashed hell on her via lawyers and publicists and allies like the author of this piece. Thanks to my mother, I grew up in a wonderful home, filled with love, that she created. I have a message for the media and allies of Woody Allen: no one is ‘parading me around as a victim' - I continue to be an adult woman making a credible allegation unchanged for two decades, backed up by evidence. My only hesitation has been the way my mother is targeted as a result, as is the case here.”

Ronan Farrow, whose reporting helped uncover sexual allegations against Harvey Weinstein last year, said, “I owe everything I am to Mia Farrow. She is a devoted mom who went through hell for her family, all while creating a loving home for us. But that has never stopped Woody Allen and his allies from planting stories that attack and vilify my mother to deflect from my sister's credible allegation of abuse.

“As a brother and son, I'm angry that New York Magazine would participate in this kind of a hit job, written by a longtime admirer and friend of Woody Allen's. As a journalist, I'm shocked by the lack of care for the facts, the refusal to include eyewitness testimony that would contradict falsehoods in this piece and the failure to print my sister's responses. Survivors of abuse deserve better.”