Kristen Stewart defends working with Woody Allen despite sexual abuse allegationsLondon, May 13(AZINS) Twilight star Kristen Stewart has defended her decision to work with Woody Allen. The 26-year-old actress stars alongside Jesse Eisenberg, Steve Carell and Blake Lively in the director's latest offering Cafe Society.

However, her decision to appear in the film was slammed by Woody's estranged son Ronan Farrow, who said that by doing so she and the rest of the film's cast were ignoring the director's links to an alleged child molestation scandal, reported Contactmusic.

"I was like, 'What do you think? We don't know any of these people involved. I can personalise situations, which would be very wrong'," Stewart said.

"At the end of the day, Jesse and I talked about this. If we were persecuted for the amount of... That's been said about us that's not true, our lives would be over. The experience of making the movie was so outside of that, it was fruitful for the two of us to go on with it."

The Midnight in Paris helmer was accused of sexually abusing his adopted daughter Dylan with ex Mia Farrow in the '90s but there were no charges against him. The allegations resurfaced when Dylan detailed the alleged incident in a letter to the New York Times in 2014.

Allen maintains that Farrow coached the child, then 7, during their bitter split.

He was involved with Farrow's adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn, who was 21 at the time of the scandal. They later married in 1997.

The director's estranged son Ronan had criticised Hollywood for continuing to celebrate Allen and ignoring these allegations in a recent article just before the Cannes premiere of his new movie.