Soon after Woody Allen was accused by his adopted daughter of sexually abusing her as a child, Barbara Walters defended her friend on The View on Monday (Feb. 3).

When Whoopi Goldberg introduced the ongoing topic and quoted 28-year-old Dylan Farrow's open letter in the New York Times claiming the famed director sexually assaulted her at age seven, the co-creator of The View began the discussion by pointing out that the statute of limitations had run out and Allen cannot be prosecuted for any alleged sexual abuse of Dylan.

Walters then quoted a statement made by Allen's lawyer Elkan Abramowitz after the public child abuse allegations. He claimed the open letter was "engineered by a vengeful lover" as it put the blame on Woody Allen's former love Mia Farrow.

"I've been with Woody many times with his two daughters," said Barbara Walters, recalling the times she spent with Allen, his wife Soon-Yi Previn, and their two adopted daughters, Bechet and Manzie. "I have rarely seen a father as sensitive, as loving and as caring as Woody is and Soon-Yi to these two girls. I don't know about Dylan. I can only tell you what I have seen now."

"She has nothing to gain by coming out and saying this," Jenny McCarthy added. "So it just makes me stop and question."

McCarthy also pointed out that the child abuse claim was not so far-fetched since Allen started a relationship with Mia Farrow's adopted daughter Soon-Yi when he was 56 and she was 19. Farrow and Allen separated after Farrow found a nude photograph that Allen had taken of Soon-Yi when she was 20.

"But it was mutual," Walters defended. "He married her. They've been married for 20 years."

Walters also said that Dylan Farrow was "supposedly very angry" and made the child abuse allegations because Allen was nominated for a Best Original Screenplay at the upcoming Academy Awards for his comedy film Blue Jasmine.

Woody Allen denied Dylan Farrow's allegations and his spokesperson said the claims were "untrue and disgraceful."