By Martha Ross

San Jose Mercury News

Ronan Farrow has blasted the publisher of his blockbuster book “Catch and Kill,” claiming the company went behind his back to strike a deal with his estranged father, Woody Allen, to release his upcoming memoir.

Farrow said in a statement posted to Twitter that he only learned through the media that Hachette Book Group was releasing Allen’s memoir, “Apropos of Nothing,” next month.

It was rumored for years that Allen had written the book, but a number of major publishers refused to be associated with it in the #MeToo era, the Guardian reported.

Farrow said he was cutting ties with Hachette after learning the company had “concealed the decision from me and its own employees while we were working on ‘Catch and Kill’ — a book about how powerful men, including Woody Allen, avoid accountability for sexual abuse.”

In his tweet, Farrow also accused the publisher of not fact-checking or reaching out to his adoptive sister, Dylan, for her version of events. Dylan Farrow has long claimed that Allen sexually assaulted her in the early 1990s when she was 7. Allen has repeatedly denied those allegations.

“It’s wildly unprofessional in multiple obvious directions for Hachette to behave this way,” wrote Farrow, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting for the New Yorker that helped expose multiple sexual assault allegations against producer Harvey Weinstein.

Farrow said Hachette’s alleged failure to fact-check also “shows a lack of ethics and compassion for victims of sexual abuse, regardless of any personal connection or breach of trust here.”