The Curb Your Enthusiasm star praises Allen’s book, Apropos of Nothing, after protests greeted the first attempt to publish it

Larry David has expressed his support for Woody Allen after reading the latter’s newly published autobiography, Apropos of Nothing, saying: “It’s hard to [think] that this guy did anything wrong.”

In an interview published in the New York Times, the Curb Your Enthusiasm star and Seinfeld co-creator said : “Yeah, it’s pretty great, it’s a fantastic book, so funny … You feel like you’re in the room with him … and it’s hard to walk away after reading that book thinking that this guy did anything wrong.”

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Woody Allen and Larry David on the set of the film Whatever Works (2009). Photograph: Everett/Rex/Shutterstock

Allen’s memoir was published by Arcade on 23 March, after its first publishers, Grand Central, an imprint of Hachette, cancelled its plans following protests by staff and pressure from investigative journalist Ronan Farrow, Allen’s estranged son. Allen’s adopted daughter Dylan Farrow, who has alleged the film-maker sexually assaulted her in 1992, thanked Hachette’s employees on social media, saying: “I’m in awe and so very grateful.” Woody Allen has been the subject of police investigations in respect of these allegations but has never been charged. The New York Department of Social Services said at the time of its investigation “that there was no credible evidence” to support the allegation.

David starred in Allen’s 2009 comedy Whatever Works, and had small roles in previous Allen films: Radio Days and the Oedipus Wrecks segment of the three-part New York Stories.