Top 10 youngest bride kind of person would marry her own father? In 1992, Woody Allen got caught with a stack of naked Polaroid photos of Soon-Yi Previn, the young daughter of his common-law wife, Mia Farrow.

Previn was essentially his own daughter, and as Farrow quickly learned, Previn and Allen were sleeping together. Although a lot has been said about what Woody Allen did, not nearly as much has been reported about the woman he married. Who is this girl who slept with and married her own stepfather, and how did her life go so wrong? Soon-Yi Previn’s life story is difficult to hear, but it’s worth taking the time to understand.

Hers is a life full of pain, right from the moment she was born. It is a psychological profile of a victim of sexual abuse—an insight into the devastating effects of neglect and abuse. Nobody knows how old Soon-Yi really is. Her family celebrates her birthday on October 8, 1970, but they don’t really know when she was born.

Her biological mother, a prostitute in Seoul who never bothered to get Soon-Yi a birth certificate, was brutally abusive. When Soon-Yi upset her, she would force the girl to kneel in a doorway and then slam the door on her head. When Soon-Yi was approximately six years old, her mother placed her on the street and told her to wait, promising that she’d be right back. Then her mother walked off, turned a corner, and disappeared. For months, the abandoned six-year-old fended for herself, surviving on her own by scavenging food out of trash cans and sleeping on the streets.