{"id":50652,"date":"2019-09-05T03:21:09","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T09:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=50652"},"modified":"2019-09-05T03:21:09","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T09:21:09","slug":"scarlett-johansson-on-abuse-allegations-against-woody-allen-i-believe-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/scarlett-johansson-on-abuse-allegations-against-woody-allen-i-believe-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Scarlett Johansson on abuse allegations against Woody Allen: \u2018I believe him\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) \u2014 Scarlett Johansson threw her support behind Woody Allen, who has been accused of sexual abuse.<br \/>\n\u201cI love Woody,\u201d the Jewish actress told the Hollywood Reporter in an article published Wednesday. \u201cI believe him, and I would work with him anytime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 1992, Allen\u2019s daughter Dylan Farrow accused him of sexual abuse. The Jewish filmmaker denies the claims.<\/p>\n<p>The allegations resurfaced last year with the growth of the #MeToo movement. In December, model Babi Christina Engelhardt said that Allen had a sexual relationship with her when she was 16.<\/p>\n<p>Allen has faced backlash as a result of the allegations. Amazon nixed a $68 million movie deal, allegedly due to the claims. A number of actors who worked on his latest movie, \u201cA Rainy Day in New York,\u201d donated their salaries to anti-rape and harassment organizations in the wake of the renewed allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Others have come to his defense.<\/p>\n<p>Johansson has starred in three movies directed by Allen: \u201cMatch Point,\u201d \u201cScoop\u201d and \u201cVicky Cristina Barcelona.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Scarlett%20Johansson%20on%20abuse%20allegations%20against%20Woody%20Allen%3A%20%E2%80%98I%20believe%20him%E2%80%99\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7139],"tags":[8790,8795,8788,8439,3694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50652"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50653,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50652\/revisions\/50653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}