Woody Allen addressed the allegations of sexual assault made
against him by daughter Dylan Farrow in a 2020 interview with CBS Sunday
Morning, which has just now been released, reports people.com.

The interview, which began streaming on Paramount+ on March
28, was recorded last July, following the release of the director’s memoir
Apropos of Nothing, according to the network.

As Allen’s interview was recorded prior to the release of
HBO’s docu-series ‘Allen v. Farrow’, it does not address any specific claims
made against Allen in the series.

Addressing the allegation, Allen, who has long denied
abusing Dylan, said, “Nothing that I ever did with Dylan in my life could
be misconstrued as that.”

The allegations against Farrow, made by a then-7-year-old
Dylan, were first reported during his 1992 split from Mia Farrow. Allen was not
charged, though a Connecticut prosecutor said there was probable cause for a
criminal case.

“Why would a guy who’s 57 years old? I never was
accused of anything in my life, I’m suddenly going to drive up in the middle of
a contentious custody fight at Mia’s country home (with) a 7-year-old girl. It
just – on the surface, I didn’t think it required any investigation,
even,” Allen, 85, told CBS’ Lee Cowan in the interview.

“It’s so preposterous, and yet the smear has remained.
And they still prefer to cling to if not the notion that I molested Dylan, the
possibility that I molested her. Nothing that I ever did with Dylan in my life
could be misconstrued as that,” Allen added.

In the four-part HBO docuseries, Dylan recounted the
“intense” and “grueling” evaluations she underwent as a
child shortly after she accused Allen of sexually abusing her

During the 2020 interview with CBS Sunday Morning, Allen
said that he doesn’t believe Dylan is “lying.”

“I believe she thinks it. She was a good kid. I do not
believe that she’s making it up. I don’t believe she’s lying. I believe she
believes that,” said Allen, who has long maintained that Dylan was coached
by Mia.

The CBS Sunday Morning interview also included Dylan’s 2018
interview with Gayle King.