With everything that’s being going on with sexual abuse in Hollywood, it’s really no surprise that the horrific allegations against Woody Allen are resurfacing.
For the first time on television, Woody Allen’s daughter Dylan Farrow went into graphic detail about her alleged sexual assault at his hands.
According to this:
‘I was taken to a small attic crawl space in my mother’s country house in Connecticut by my father,’ said Farrow, who was adopted by the director and actress Mia Farrow, in an emotional interview with Gayle King on CBS This Morning on Thursday.
‘He instructed me to lay down on my stomach and play with my brother’s toy train that was set up. And he sat behind me in the doorway, and as I played with the toy train, I was sexually assaulted.
‘As a 7-year-old I would say, I would have said he touched my private parts,’ Farrow continued a she described what allegedly took place one August day in 1992, while her mom was out shopping.
‘As a 32-year-old, he touched my labia and my vulva with his finger,’ Farrow continued in the first TV interview to detail the molestation claims, repeating the account she gave in a New York Times op-ed in 2014.
Farrow says she told her mother Mia about the allegations at the time, who reportedly took Dylan to the pediatrician, but she says she was too embarrassed to tell the doctor what occurred.
Now she says she is ‘outraged’ about being’tossed aside’ for finally sharing the story of her abuse.
‘I loved my father. I respected him. He was my hero. And that doesn’t obviously take away from what he did,’ she said. ‘But it does make the betrayal and the hurt that much more intense.’
Woody Allen has always alleged that Dylan was “coached” by her mother.
Allen, 82, has once again rejected claims he molested his adopted daughter and accused his ‘angry’ ex-wife Mia Farrow of ‘relentlessly coaching’ the 32-year-old into thinking he was a ‘dangerous sexual predator’.
Dylan had something to say about that:
‘He’s lying, and he’s been lying for so long,’ said Farrow, who broke down after the statement was read on the show admitted it was still ‘difficult for me to see him and to hear his voice. I’m sorry.’
But she was furious over his claims that her mother had ‘coached’ her to make up the story.
‘What I don’t understand is, how is this crazy story of me being brainwashed and coached more believable than what I’m saying about being sexually assaulted by my father?’
Because Woody Allen is a Hollywood hero, that’s why.
Just ask his buddy Alec Baldwin.
Dylan said her father was also always touching and cuddling her, something he didn’t do with her brother, Ronan, and claims he invited her into his bed while he was only wearing his underwear – and often she was just wearing her underwear.
There have been preliminary investigations, but none that ever led to anything…
The claims were investigated by officials from New York State and Yale New Haven Hospital who did not find evidence of abuse.
Connecticut state prosecutor Frank Maco, questioned the credibility of the New Haven report and said there was probable cause to charge Allen in 1993.
But no charges were ever filed as they didn’t want a child to be subjected to a celebrity trial.
So I do question whether it’s entirely accurate when people say that this is a done deal and that the investigations are conclusive.
Dylan continues…
‘I am credible and I am telling the truth and I think it’s important that people realize that one victim, one accuser, matters. And that they are enough to change things,’ Farrow said in the first part of her CBS interview yesterday.
‘Why shouldn’t I want to bring him down? Why shouldn’t I be angry? Why shouldn’t I be hurt? Why shouldn’t I feel some sort of outrage that after all these years, being ignored and disbelieved and tossed aside…’
Woody released his own statement…
Yet Allen claims in his statement that the Farrows were hijacking the popular Me Too and Times Up movements, to tackle sexual assault and harassment in Hollywood, for their own gains.
‘Even though the Farrow family is cynically using the opportunity afforded by the Time’s Up movement to repeat this discredited allegation, that doesn’t make it any more true today than it was in the past,’ the Annie Hall director said in his statement.
He added that the investigations into the alleged abuse found no evidence of molestation, but ‘found it likely a vulnerable child had been coached to tell the story by her angry mother during a contentious breakup.’
‘Dylan’s older brother Moses has said that he witnessed their mother doing exactly that – relentlessly coaching Dylan, trying to drum into her that her father was a dangerous sexual predator. It seems to have worked – and, sadly, I’m sure Dylan truly believes what she says.’
In February 2014, Farrow, now 32, wrote an open letter in The New York Times in which she describes the alleged behavior by her adoptive father.
Allen, she writes, would ‘stick his thumb in my mouth’.
He also allegedly made her climb into bed with him ‘when he was in his underwear’ and ‘would place his head in my naked lap and breathe in and breathe out.’
Allen denied the allegations.
Gosh… either way this is so sad.
Dylan was either sexually abused… or mentally abused.
And while I do think we need to be careful about just assuming people are guilty… Woody’s relationship with his daughter turned wife turned mother of his children certainly gives me pause.