Woody Allen blasts his ex-wife Mia Farrow for her “Ahab-like quest” to destroy him with sex abuse allegations and describes his romance with his current wife Soon-Yi Previn in graphic terms in his new memoir.
“At the very early stages of our new relationship, when lust reigns supreme … we couldn’t keep our hands off each other,” Allen writes of Previn in “Apropos of Nothing,” which came out Monday to little fanfare.
The book had originally been set to be put out by Hachette, but it was dropped after mass protests by employees, who were angry the company would publish Allen, who has been accused of sexually abusing Farrow’s daughter, Dylan.
In the book, which was put out by Arcade Publishing, the Oscar-winning director says he became embroiled in a romance with Previn in 1991, while he was still with her mother Mia Farrow, with whom he has four kids.
Allen said that he and Farrow were basically apart by the time he began dating her adopted daughter, who is 35 years younger than him.
He recalled the day Farrow learned of the affair after discovering erotic photographs of her 20-something daughter at Allen’s apartment.
“Of course I understand her shock, her dismay, her rage, everything,” he said. “It was the correct reaction.”
But he also expressed no regret.
“Sometimes, when the going got rough and I was maligned everywhere, I was asked if I had known the outcome, do I ever wish I never took up with Soon-Yi? I always answered I’d do it again in a heartbeat.”
He even shows how much affection he has for Previn, dedicating the book to her with the words: “For Soon-Yi, the best. I had her eating out of my hand and then I noticed my arm was missing.”
Allen was with Farrow for more than a decade, and recalled happy times with the “very, very beautiful” actress.
They’re feeling cooled, however, especially after the 1987 birth of their one biological children, Ronan Farrow.
Farrow has been outspoken about his father, whom he alleges sexually abused his sister Dylan, Allen’s adopted daughter.
Allen has long denied sexually abusing Dylan, and in the book, he speculated that the accusations arose from what he calls Farrow’s “Ahab-like quest” for revenge.
“I never laid a finger on Dylan, never did anything to her that could be even misconstrued as abusing her; it was a total fabrication from start to finish,” he wrote.
Describing a visit to Farrow’s Connecticut house in August 1992, when he allegedly molested Dylan, he acknowledged briefly placing his head on his then seven-year-old daughter’s lap.
“I certainly didn’t do anything improper to her. I was in a room full of people watching TV mid-afternoon,” he said.
Allen was never charged after two separate investigations in the 1990s.
Grand Central Publishing said it would release Allen’s book on April 7. But the news was met with outrage from Farrow, who shared the Pulitzer Prize with the New York Times for his New Yorker investigation into Harvey Weinstein.
As The Post reported, Hachette employees staged a walkout, prompting Hachette to scrap the book. The book has now been published by Arcade publishers.
Allen wrote “When actual flak did arrive they thoughtfully reassessed their position” and “dumped the book like it was a hunk of Xenon 135.”
Arcade editor Jeannette Seaver said in a statement: “In this strange time, when truth is too often dismissed as ‘fake news,’ we as publishers prefer to give voice to a respected artist, rather than bow to those determined to silence him.”
