Woody Allen says he has no regrets about his life, and actually cherishes the moment former lover Mia Farrow discovered secret nude photos he'd snapped of her 21-year-old adopted daughter — and his future bride.
"[It was] one of the great pieces of luck in my life," the filmmaker tells December's Vanity Fair in a rare interview. "It was a turning point in my life for the better."
But Allen, who turns 70 next month, admits that because of their extreme age difference, his relationship with wife Soon-Yi Previn — now 34 — has "a more paternal feeling to it."
"If somebody told me when I was younger, 'You're going to wind up married to a girl 35 years younger than you and a Korean, not in show business, not having any real interest in show business,' I would have said, 'You're completely crazy,' " Allen says.
At the height of his chutzpah, Allen even tried to hire Farrow after the Soon-Yi nudie-photo scandal exploded and she dumped him.
"I was making 'Mighty Aphrodite' right after [the scandal]. We couldn't think of an actress to play my wife . . . And I said [to the casting director], let's get Mia," he recalls.
"[She said], 'What are you, nuts? . . . You must be kidding.' I'm just not the kind of person that thinks: 'Well, you did a terrible thing to me in my life, and so I'm not working with you.'
