Drew Barrymore tells Dylan Farrow she regrets working with Woody Allen

Dylan Farrow released her debut young adult novel Hush last October, but outside of those pages, the 35-year-old is dedicated to spreading only the truth.

Farrow joined The Drew Barrymore Show on Monday for a lengthy and wide-ranging conversation that began with Barrymore expressing regret over working with Woody Allen on the 1996 film Everyone Says I Love You: 

"I want to say first out of the gate, too, that I would like to explain myself because this is not about me, but I wanted to have this type of candor. I worked with Woody Allen. I did a film with him in 1996 called Everyone Says I Love You. There was no higher career calling card than to work with Woody Allen, and then I had children. 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. So, thank you for that."

Farrow, one of actress Mia Farrow's adopted children and 14 children overall, thanked Barrymore for saying so and admitted she was trying not to cry. 

"It's just so meaningful because it's easy for me to say, like, of course you shouldn't work with him, you know?" Farrow said. "He's a jerk. He's a monster. But I just find it incredibly brave and incredibly generous that you would say to me that my story—what I went through—was important enough to you to reconsider that."

Farrow has long alleged that Allen, her adoptive father, sexually abused her when she was a child. HBO docuseries Allen v. Farrow aired in four parts from Feb. 21 to March 14 and took a never-before-seen glimpse into those allegations through home videos—including footage of a then-seven-year-old Dylan describing extremely inappropriate behavior by Allen—and vulnerable interviews with Dylan Farrow, Mia Farrow, Ronan Farrow, and others. Allen publicly disputed the project, calling it a "shoddy hit piece."