Spike Lee Apologizes After Defending Woody Allen: 'My Words Were Wrong'

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In the Morning program on Friday (June 12), the Da 5 Bloods director got candid about Allen and "cancel culture." "I’d just like to say Woody Allen is a great, great filmmaker and this cancel thing is not just Woody," Lee said on the show. "And I think when we look back on it we are going to see that — short of killing somebody — I don’t know that you can just erase somebody like they never existed."Lee went on to describe Allen as a "friend." "Woody is a friend of mine, a fellow Knick fan, so I know he’s going through it right now," Lee said.The comments sparked backlash given Allen has faced long-held claims that he molested his adoptive daughter Dylan Farrow, who has said that she was seven years old at the time of the alleged incident..