Woody Allen calls son Ronan Farrow’s work ‘shoddy,’ questions ‘credibility’

Woody Allen ripped his estranged son Ronan Farrow’s “shoddy” journalism in gentle of a current report calling the Pulitzer Prize-winner’s reporting into query.

Allen made the feedback in an interview with the UK’s Telegraph on Friday.

“Up till a few days in the past I’d have mentioned ‘Gee, that is nice, he’s executed some good investigative journalism and extra energy to him, I want him all of the success on the planet,” the 84-year-old director mentioned about Farrow. “However now it’s come out that his journalism has not been so moral or trustworthy.”

Allen was referring to a New York Occasions column from earlier this month that panned Farrow’s work, saying he “delivers narratives which can be irresistibly cinematic — with unmistakable heroes and villains … [and] typically omits the complicating details and inconvenient particulars which will make them much less dramatic.”

Farrow — who received a Pulitzer for his reporting on the huge Harvey Weinstein intercourse scandal — has publicly accused his estranged father of molesting Farrow’s sister, Dylan.

“Now, I discovered him to not be an trustworthy journalist in relation to me in any respect, however I write that off as a result of, you recognize, I perceive he’s loyal to his mom,” Allen mentioned within the interview, referring to Mia Farrow.

“However now persons are starting to appreciate that it isn’t simply in relation to me that his journalism has been form of shoddy, and I’m not so certain that his credibility goes to final.”

The Telegraph’s report describes Allen’s tone as he discusses Farrow as “excessive nonchalance.”

Farrow, 32, has stood by his reporting, providing up a number of rebuttals to the Occasions piece on Twitter.

It’s lengthy been rumored that Farrow is definitely the son of Frank Sinatra — Mia was married to the late crooner from 1966 to 1968 and the 2 have been on and off once more afterward.

In 2013, the “Rosemary’s Child” actress additional fanned the flames.

“Probably,” she replied, when requested by Vainness Truthful if Sinatra was the newborn daddy.