Director Spike Lee during the speech on the radio spoke about the situation with the calls for "Cancel" Woody Allen activists and stop showing his films:
I would like to say that Woody Allen is an excellent, great director. And I can not seriously perceive the whole story with his "cancellation." Ultimately, there is only one way to erase a person - it is to kill him. Otherwise, it is impossible to pretend that someone does not exist. Woody - my friend, the fan "Nix", like me. And I know how difficult it is now.
A few days later whether wrote on Twitter:
I apologize deeply. My words were wrong. I do not tolerate and never justify sexual harassment and violence. Such actions are applied to real damage, which cannot be minimized.
I Deeply Apologize. MY WORDS WERE WRONG. I do not and Will Not Tolerate Sexual Harassment, Assault or Violence. Such Treatment Causes Real Damage That Can't Be Minimized.-Truly, Spike Lee.
- Spike Lee (@spikeleejoint) June 13, 2020
In the early 1990s, when Woody Allen left his wife Mia Farrow and began to live with a 21-year-old adopted daughter Sun-and, another daughter, 7-year-old Dylan Farrow, said that Allen had arms before her. According to the director himself, this story was inspired by a mother's mother as an additional argument in court for the establishment of guardianship.
His version was confirmed by doctors who conducted a child examination. Denies her fact that during the court Woody Allen abandoned testimony using a polygraph. As a result, at least a story with harassment was not proved, the court left custody of the mother's children. Many years later, during the activity of #Metoo movement, Dylan Farrow again remembered the story. And since then, activists persecute Allen.