Alec Baldwin and Selena Gomez still support Woody Allen
While a litany of stars are denouncing Woody Allen in light of the #MeToo movement, at least two are sticking by the scandal-plagued director: Alec Baldwin and Selena Gomez.
“Woody Allen was investigated forensically by two states (NY and CT) and no charges were filed,” Baldwin, 59, tweeted Tuesday. “The renunciation of him and his work, no doubt, has some purpose. But it’s unfair and sad to me. I worked w WA 3 times and it was one of the privileges of my career.”
Baldwin’s tweet came after actor Timothée Chalamet, who stars in Allen’s upcoming film “A Rainy Day in New York,” announced that he would donate his wages from the movie to RAINN and the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund.
Actress Rebecca Hall, who also appears in the film, announced this week that she too would donate her salary from the movie. Within the last month, Mira Sorvino and Greta Gerwig have each apologized for working with Allen.
Allen was previously accused of sexually abusing his daughter, Dylan Farrow, when she was a child.
Law enforcement investigated the allegations when they first arose in 1993, as did sexual abuse experts at Yale-New Haven Hospital, The Los Angeles Times reported. A prosecutor in Connecticut, where the assault allegedly occurred, said he had “probable cause” to prosecute, but declined to press charges in order to spare Farrow, now 32, the trauma of a trial.
Allen, who is married to ex-girlfriend Mia Farrow’s adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn, has steadfastly denied the allegations for nearly 25 years; Dylan previously claimed that Allen’s public relations team had attempted to discredit her allegations and paint Mia as a scorned ex-lover.
One “Rainy Day in New York” star who has remained silent on Allen, though, is Gomez.
The 25-year-old former Disney star’s mother, Mandy Teefey, replied to a fan on Instagram on Monday who suggested she make Gomez apologize for starring in the movie.
“Sorry, no one can make Selena do anything she doesn’t want to,” Teefey, 41, wrote. “I had a long talk with her about not working with him and it didn’t click. Her team are amazing people. There is no fall person here. No one controls her. She makes all her own decisions. No matter how hard you try to advise. It falls on deaf ears.”
When asked about working with Allen in light of the #MeToo movement in her November 2017 Billboard cover story, Gomez side-stepped discussing the sexual abuse allegations against him.
“To be honest, I’m not sure how to answer — not because I’m trying to back away from it,” she said. “[The Harvey Weinstein allegations] actually happened right after I had started [on the movie]. They popped up in the midst of it. And that’s something, yes, I had to face and discuss. I stepped back and thought, ‘Wow, the universe works in interesting ways.'”
A rep for Gomez did not immediately return a request for comment.
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