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>> i did a bad thing. there you have it. >> yeah. >> there you have it. that show scored huge ratings and grant's praised for owning up to it. and actually apologizing for his behavior. >> grant pled no contest to the charges. paid a fine. received probation. boy was that a big moment. >> things haven't ended so cleanly for director woody allen. >> allen made headlines in 1992 when his romantic relationship with 19-year-old soon-yi previn came to light. soon-yi, the adopted daughter of mia farrow, the couple married for 17 years now. >> recently, allen accused of molesting adopted daughter dylan. a police investigation of the allegations ended with no charges filed against him. >> and then let's dial back the clock to 2004 and the release of one of the most notorious sex tapes ever. >> oh, boy, who could forget paris hillson. that recording of her late night romp with then boyfriend rick solomon.
farrow's adopted daughter, soon yi. >> a child who is in the process of healing, but that is a child that has to continue to heal. and i'm not going to be responsible for setting that child back any further. >> but investigators from yale new haven hospital concluded dylan had not been abused. woody allen spoke out after police dropped the investigation. >> the aren't authorities are dropping this case is purely and simply because they know there's no chance they could possibly win it. >> reporter: 28-year-old dylan farrow is now married and living in florida under a different name. last year she says she was diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorders. on sunday, the day after dylan's letter was published, woody allen's representative responded
anything is possible here, but it's highly credible. she's not selling anything, a book or a movie, she's not suing him, she doesn't have an open litigation against him, she has everything to lose and nothing to gain by coming forward now, what i see in her, what i see in so many victims is, decades go by, you get stronger, centered, she's in a happy place in her life, living 1,000 miles away from her mother. now is her time to speak her truth. woody allen back in 1992 issued a statement that was almost sociopathic at the time, he said he had done nothing immoral, that it was not important, the fact that soon yi was his long term girlfriend's daughter was not important. not understanding the pain he caused to this family. probably why he's hiding behind his publicist and lawyers right now. we're going to come back after break and talk more about this with lisa.
he had done nothing immoral, that it was not important, the fact that soon yi was his long term girlfriend's daughter was not important. not understanding the pain he caused to this we're going to come back after break and talk more about this with lisa. the it card ands your first time missing a payment, so there's no late fee. really? yep! so is your husband off the hook? no. he went out for milk last week and came back with a puppy. hold it. hold it. hold it. at discover, we treat you like you'd treat you. get the it card with late payment forgiveness.
all press, it's all good. >> you are talking about obviously a family that are worlds apart by woody allen's affair by soon-yi. she was 19 and he was 55. and perhaps more pertinently, he had been around her since she was very young, 8, 9, 10. and many people feel that in itself should have precluded him from ever having any relationship with her. you were also very young, when he had the relationship with you. people say, look, there's a patent here of an older guy basically not corrupting, but having relationships with much, much younger women, and in the case of soon-yi, someone who is the adopted daughter of his partner. it's a patent for inappropriateness. >> i don't condone what happened in the relationship with woody and mia, and then with soon-yi,
took me by the hand and led me into a dim closet like attic on the second floor of our house. he told me to lay on my stomach and he sexually assaulted me. that this was our secret, promising that we'd go to paris and i'd be a star in his movies. and there's more. she wrote that the abuse was skillfully hidden from a mother that would have protected me, and she thought it was normal that this was how fathers doted on daughters. she also thanks her mother who says she saved them from the chaos of a predator brought into our home. when mia farrow made the allegations public decades ago, it came on the heels of an affair with another of mia farrow's adopted daughter, soon yi. >> a child who is in the process of healing, but that is a child that has to continue to heal.
daughter. by any yardstick an incredibly inappropriate -- >> let's hold on, hold on. let's go -- >> hang on. >> let's go one at a time. inappropriate, but for 20 years they've been together. they're married, they have two teenaged daughters. >> i understand that. >> mazel tov is what you would say not inappropriate at this point. things change. >> mazel tov unless you're mia farrow and it's your adopted daughter. >> mia has every right to say this must have been incredibly hurtful 21 years ago. >> right, i understand that woody allen's gone on to marry soon- soon-yi. the two facts i wanted to put to you. is there anyway of assessing the character of woody allen when you take that fact and you take the fact that i interviewed somebody who's now had an affair with him when he was 42, he