Woody Allen shares emotional end of life confession as he approaches 90

Legendary actor Woody Allen has opened up on his own mortality, as he is soon to hit his 90th birthday. Renowned for his neurotic characters in films such as Love and Death, Annie Hall, and Manhattan, the star has been out of the limelight for a while as he shared that he "plans on dying in the next few years".

Speaking to talk show host Bill Maher on his Club Random podcast this week, Allen explained: "I will come apart long before the universe. I mean, I'm at the end of... in December I'll be 90, and I plan on dying in the next few years." He then mentioned that his long life is probably thanks to his genes, saying: "I've been very lucky. My parents had longevity and so I've been blessed so far without - but you know, I've spoken to people who I'm saying 'It's remarkable, you're 95 years old and you look so great, you're so vigorous' and everything is great, and the next thing they're dead."

Allen's reputation took something of a battering in the early 1990s, when his ex, Mia Farrow, accused him of sexually abusing their adoptive daughter, Dylan Farrow.

However, a subsequent investigation by the Child Sexual Abuse Clinic of Yale-New Haven Hospital found no evidence to back this allegation.

Addressing how the allegations caused his career to nosedive and for him to be "cancelled", Allen told Vanity Fair in 2023: "I feel if you're going to be cancelled, this is the culture to be canceled by. I just find that all so silly. I don't think about it. I don't know what it means to be cancelled."

He continued: "My reaction has always been the same. The situation has been investigated by two people, two major bodies, not people, but two major investigative bodies. And both, after long detailed investigations, concluded there was no merit to these charges, that, you know, is exactly as I wrote in my book, Apropos of Nothing. There was nothing to it."

Depsite work slowing down for him after the allegations, Allen said that he was still "comfortable". He shared: "I had done 45 movies already. I had made enough money so I could retire for life comfortably.

"I was thinking even, I only want to make a few more movies and then I would like to start to write books and plays. And so it happened to me at a time when it was no problem. If it had happened when I was 25 or 30, you know."