Diane Keaton‘s beauty is being celebrated in a new interview, but the actress touches on the ugly sexual abuse allegations against her frequent collaborator and friend, Woody Allen.
“I love Woody,” Keaton tells People in the magazine’s Most Beautiful issue (available on newsstands Friday). “I don’t want to say anything about [his daughter Dylan Farrow’s accusations that he molested her, which he denies] except I’m Woody’s friend, and I believe him. That’s the bottom line for me.”
She continues, “I worry for him and everybody else involved, and I hope it works out for the best for everyone.”
In January, Keaton accepted the Cecil B. DeMille award on behalf of Allen at the Golden Globes. The Hollywood Foreign Press Associated celebrated Allen’s career, calling him “a true American original and an icon of world cinema.”
Allen’s recognition prompted Dylan Farrow to revisit molestation allegations (that were originally brought up in the early ’90s) against Allen in an explosive open letter to the New York Times.
In the piece, Dylan also named several actors who starred in Allen’s films (including Keaton, 68) and accused them of turning a blind eye to the abuse.
“Actors praised him at awards shows. Networks put him on TV. Critics put him in magazines … What if it had been your child, Cate Blanchett? Louis CK? Alec Baldwin? What if it had been you, Emma Stone? Or you, Scarlett Johansson? You knew me when I was a little girl, Diane Keaton. Have you forgotten me?” Dylan wrote.
Allen, 78, refuted Dylan’s claims, calling them “creative flourishes that seem to have magically appeared during our 21-year estrangement” and blaming Mia Farrow.
“Of course, I did not molest Dylan,” Allen continued. “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.”