Spike Lee issues apology after defending Woody Allen

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Film director Spike Lee has apologised for words he said were &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<i>wrong<&sol;i>”&comma; after voicing support for Woody Allen and criticising cancel culture&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In an interview Friday on the New York radio station WOR 710&comma; Lee called Allen &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<i>a great&comma; great filmmaker<&sol;i>”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<i>This cancel thing is not just Woody&period;<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;And I think that when we look back on it&comma; &lpar;we’re&rpar; gonna see that&comma; short of killing somebody&comma; I don’t know if you can just erase somebody like they never existed&period;<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" data-width&equals;"550" data-dnt&equals;"true">&NewLine;<p lang&equals;"en" dir&equals;"ltr">I Deeply Apologize&period; My Words Were WRONG&period; I Do Not And Will Not Tolerate Sexual Harassment&comma; Assault Or Violence&period; Such Treatment Causes Real Damage That Can&&num;39&semi;t Be Minimized&period;-Truly&comma; Spike Lee&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&mdash&semi; Spike Lee &lpar;&commat;SpikeLeeJoint&rpar; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;SpikeLeeJoint&sol;status&sol;1271913863529639936&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">June 13&comma; 2020<&sol;a><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;platform&period;twitter&period;com&sol;widgets&period;js" charset&equals;"utf-8"><&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<i>Woody’s a friend of mine&comma;<&sol;i>” said Lee&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<i>I know he’s going through it right now&period;<&sol;i>”<br &sol;>&NewLine;The following day&comma; Lee tweeted an apology&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<i>My words were WRONG&comma;<&sol;i>” he wrote&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<i>I do not and will not tolerate sexual harassment&comma; assault or violence&period; Such treatment causes real damage that can’t be minimised&period;<&sol;i>”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Allen has been accused of molesting his daughter Dylan Farrow when she was seven years old in the early 1990s&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Allen has long denied the allegation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Earlier this year&comma; he released a memoir through Arcade Publishing after his original publisher&comma; Hachette Book Group&comma; dropped the book amid widespread criticism&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Lee’s latest film&comma; the Vietnam War drama Da 5 Bloods debuted Friday on Netflix&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68e2d66a39747">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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