Keaton was publicly condemned by Farrow in an open letter published in The New York Times where she accuses Allen of molesting her as a seven-year-old and asks Keaton, whom she met on her father’s movie sets as a child, “Have you forgotten me?”
After being asked if she resented becoming embroiled in the messy feud Keaton told The Guardian she held no grudges.
“What are they going to do? Who else are they going to drag in? They have to drag someone in. I don’t resent it, not for a second,” said the 68-year-old.
Keaton – who won an Oscar for her breakout performance in Allen’s 1977 film Annie Hall – went on to say that she had only met Farrow a handful of times and didn’t really know her as a child and was not close with Mia Farrow, Dylan’s adoptive mother and Allen’s former long-time partner.
“I saw her maybe three times. I didn’t know her. It’s not a bad accusation. I was never friends with Mia – I was friendly.”
In her letter Dylan Farrow is graphic in her recount of the first time Allen supposedly abused her.
“When I was seven-years-old, Woody Allen took me by the hand and led me into a dim, closet-like attic on the second floor of our house,” wrote Farrow. “He told me to lay on my stomach and play with my brother’s electric train set. Then he sexually assaulted me. He talked to me while he did it, whispering that I was a good girl, that this was our secret, promising that we’d go to Paris and I’d be a star in his movies.”
When Keaton was pressed about how she feels about publicly supporting an alleged child molester, the actress remains unapologetic.
“I have nothing to say about that. Except: I believe my friend.”
Keaton, who accepted a lifetime achievement award on behalf of Allen at the Golden Globes, also went on to confess her adoration for the man who launched her career.
“Oh, well, yes. I love him,” she said. “He’s the strongest person I’ve met in my life… He’s made of steel.”
A few days following Dylan Farrow’s editorial, Allen retorted with his own Times letter, in which the New York native vehemently defended himself.
“Of course, I did not molest Dylan,” wrote Allen. “I loved her and hope one day she will grasp how she has been cheated out of having a loving father and exploited by a mother more interested in her own festering anger than her daughter’s well-being.”
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