Farrow Calls Allen Acts ‘Inappropriate’ : Custody fight: She testifies for the first time, and says she allowed adoption of daughter to proceed despite incidents.

Mia Farrow, testifying for the first time since her explosive breakup with Woody Allen, said Thursday that even though she believed the film director showed “inappropriate” behavior toward their daughter, Dylan, she allowed adoption of the child to proceed.

“If she visited his apartment, they would end up playing in his bed,” Farrow charged. “But the quality of his playing would arouse her, and she would grab at him. That happened three times.”

Farrow said the incidents occurred when Dylan, now 7, was 4 or 5 years old, and that she had discussed her concerns with Allen’s therapist who assured her “these issues were being taken care of and were not of real concern.”

“I think sexual is not the word I used at that time,” Farrow told the court. “Inappropriate was the word I used. It was the whole quality of it, the intensity of it, the wooing quality. It was relentless. It was overpowering.”

Allen, 57, and Farrow, 48, are battling in court over custody of Dylan; their 4-year-old biological son, Satchel, and Moses, their 14-year-old adopted son.

The actress was called to the stand as a hostile witness by one of Allen’s lawyers, Elkan Abramowitz. In a frail but firm voice, she told how she discovered her former lover’s affair with Soon-Yi Farrow Previn, the 22-year-old daughter she adopted with her former husband, conductor Andre Previn.

Farrow made the discovery when she found in Allen’s apartment nude pictures he had taken of Soon-Yi.

“I told him to leave us alone. Don’t come near me,” Farrow said. “I said I found the pictures. Get away from us.”

But she said Allen persisted in visiting her apartment the same day and after an argument “sat right down at the dinner table like nothing happened. He said, ‘Hi, everyone.’ . . . I said you just can’t sit down as if nothing has happened. People have feelings--strong feelings. It was very low key. I said it in a low-key voice.”

The actress said that after dinner was finished, Allen still would not go.

“We talked endlessly, and finally, he left,” she said.

After months of leaks and innuendoes from both sides in the bitter custody fight, Farrow’s presence on the stand at times was electrifying. Dressed, almost like a schoolgirl, in a blue blazer, white shirt and greenish blue skirt, she told, tears filling her eyes, how she and Soon-Yi had come to blows.

In a somewhat ethereal voice, Farrow said she phoned her adopted daughter when the nude Polaroids were discovered.

“I said I had found the pictures. She said, ‘What pictures?’ . . . She hung up on me.”

When she returned home across Central Park that day from Allen’s apartment, Farrow said she took the pictures out of her pocket and showed them to Soon-Yi.

“I said, ‘These pictures. What have you done?’ ”

The following week, after returning from Farrow’s country home in Bridgewater, Conn., they fought.

“I asked her how long had this been going on. She said all through her senior year on Saturdays and Sundays. She made a comment to me the person sleeping with the person is the person with the relationship. I kicked the phone into her leg,” Farrow testified.

“I pounced on her. She kicked me. I hit her on the side of the head and shoulders. She hit me on the side. I was just crying. I am not proud of it. The housekeeper came in. I just went into the kitchen.”

The audience in the packed courtroom of New York State Supreme Court sat riveted as she spoke.

Farrow testified that after she believed Allen had sexually molested Dylan at her summer home last August, she spoke with a therapist and said that she thought he had a homosexual relationship.

“Yes, I said those things,” Farrow told the court.

During a break in the testimony, Farrow’s lawyer, Eleanor Alter, indicated that her client really did not believe Allen was homosexual and that she would bring that out during her own examination of the witness, perhaps as early as today.

Allen said last week--and Farrow did not deny--that a team of physicians and social workers at Yale-New Haven Hospital had exonerated him of the allegations that he had sexually abused Dylan.