{"id":2039875,"date":"2025-09-21T23:39:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T23:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2039875"},"modified":"2025-09-21T23:39:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T23:39:40","slug":"woody-allens-comments-about-wife-puts-eyes-on-controversial-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/woody-allens-comments-about-wife-puts-eyes-on-controversial-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Woody Allen\u2019s Comments About Wife Puts Eyes on Controversial Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tDespite being married for over two decades, Woody Allen<\/a> rarely steps out with, or even talks about, his wife, Soon-Yi Previn. Earlier this year, they made a super-rare outing, and this past week, he gave details about their marriage; and it\u2019s now shone a spotlight on their controversial relationship.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal<\/a> for his upcoming book, What\u2019s with Baum?<\/a><\/em>, he described his wife as \u201cdisciplined,\u201d \u201cdecisive,\u201d \u201ca wonderful mother,\u201d and someone who has \u201ca larger-than-life personality.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tHe added, \u201cIf anyone had told me years ago that I would be married to a girl much younger than me with no background in New York or none of the similar interests growing up and that she\u2019d be a Korean orphan, I would have said, \u2018No chance. I\u2019m going to be married to a New York actress.\u2019 But it didn\u2019t work out that way.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tBecause of his upcoming book and his super-rare comments, all eyes are on their marriage again. If you don\u2019t know the beginnings of it all, we\u2019ll break it down.<\/p>\n

\n\tBack in 1977, actress Mia Farrow and Andr\u00e9 Previn adopted Soon-Yi Previn from Seoul, South Korea. Farrow then started dating Allen after meeting in 1979. They were together for over a decade, and had multiple children: adopting a daughter named Dylan in July 1985, and welcoming a son named Ronan <\/a>in 1987.<\/p>\n

\n\tNow, Allen<\/a> and Previn met when she was 10. Per Vulture via Bustle<\/a>, Previn hated him when they met when she was 10. \u201cWoody wasn\u2019t interested in meeting us children. And the feeling was mutual; we weren\u2019t interested in meeting him. I hated him because he was with my mother, and I didn\u2019t understand why anyone could be with such a nasty, mean person. I thought he must be the same way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHowever, Farrow and Allen\u2019s <\/a>romance came crashing down when she discovered nude photographs of her daughter, Previn, in Jan 1992 in Allen\u2019s home. Months later, Allen issued a public statement saying that he and Previn were in love. <\/p>\n

\n\tHe later spoke to Time Magazine via Salon<\/a>, saying, \u201cI am not Soon-Yi\u2019s father or stepfather. I\u2019ve never even lived with Mia. I\u2019ve never in my entire life slept at Mia\u2019s apartment, and I never even used to go over there until my children came along seven years ago. I never had any family dinners over there. I was not a father to her adopted kids in any sense of the word.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cTo think that Woody was in any way a father or stepfather to me is laughable,\u201d Previn added. \u201cMy parents are Andre Previn and Mia, but obviously they\u2019re not even my real parents. I came to America when I was 7. I was never remotely close to Woody.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tHowever, in a 2005 interview with Vanity Fair<\/a>, he did say their relationship had a \u201cpaternal\u201d feeling to it, saying, \u201cIt\u2019s got a more paternal feeling to it. I love to do things to make her happy. She loves to do things to make me happy. It just works out great. It was just completely fortuitous. One of the truly lucky things that happened to me in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe then said the same thing again <\/em>a decade later to NPR<\/a>, saying in his relationship with her is \u201cpaternal<\/a>,\u201d saying that he liked her \u201cyouth and energy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAllen and Previn<\/a> later married in 1997 and adopted two daughters.<\/p>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.sheknows.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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