Drew Barrymore Speaks About Working With Woody Allen, Tells Dylan Farrow 'She Was Gaslit'

Drew Barrymore has opened up about working with Woody Allen in the latest episode of her chat show. Her guest was none other than Allen's adopted daughter Dylan Farrow.

While interviewing Farrow on "The Drew Barrymore Show" on Monday, the 46-year-old actress shared her own experience and said she regretted working with the controversial filmmaker in 1996.

"I worked with Woody Allen," Barrymore recalled. "I did a film with him in 1996 called Everyone Says I Love You and there was no higher career calling card than to work with Woody Allen."

The actress worked in the movie "Everyone Says I Love You" along with Allen, Goldie Hawn, Natasha Lyonne, Julia Roberts, Edward Norton and Tim Roth. The musical drama directed by Allen was nominated for the best motion picture – musical or comedy at the Golden Globe Awards in 1997.

"Then I had children," Barrymore said. "And it changed me because I realized that I was one of the people who was basically gaslit into not looking at a narrative beyond what I was being told."

"And I see what's happening in the industry now and that is because of you making that brave choice," she added. "So thank you for that."

Farrow had accused her father of molesting her when she was just seven years old.

Farrow's appearance on "The Drew Barrymore Show" came after she spoke about her experience in a mini-documentary series, which was based on the sexual abuse allegation against Allen. The series released on HBO on Feb. 21.

"It is just so meaningful because it's easy for me to say, 'Of course you shouldn't work with him he's a jerk, he's a monster,'" Farrow told Barrymore. "But I just find it incredibly brave and incredibly generous that you would say to me that my story and what I went through was important enough to you to reconsider that."

"I said this thing and it started this nightmare of lawyers and the phone ringing and everything changed," Farrow recalled. "The more I was asked the same question over and over the more I started to wonder, 'What do they want from me? and feeling like the more I said the same thing that it was the wrong answer."

Allen responded to the allegations in July 2020 in an interview with "CBS Sunday Morning" and it was telecasted on Paramount Plus in March this year.

"It's so preposterous, and yet the smear has remained," Allen said during the interview. "And they still prefer to cling to if not the notion that I molested Dylan, the possibility that I molested her. Nothing that I ever did with Dylan in my life could be misconstrued as that."