After years in which Woody Allen has been able to continue working despite the shadow of a sexual assault allegation against him by his daughter Dylan Farrow, the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements have emboldened Hollywood to start speaking out against the filmmaker. Ellen Page, Greta Gerwig, Rebecca Hall, and Timothée Chalamet have all recently expressed their regrets about collaborating with Allen (though the director does have a defender in Alec Baldwin). But now, the filmmaker himself — who rarely addresses the subject directly — has issued a statement regarding the allegation.
This morning, Farrow conducted her first television interview about the alleged incident with “CBS This Morning.” In a candid conversation, Farrow detailed the assault and says that she believes that Allen, who has long denied the allegation, is being completely dishonest.
“He’s lying and he’s been lying for so long. And it is difficult for me to see him and to hear his voice. I’m sorry,” she said after watching a clip of Allen defending himself on “60 Minutes.” Additionally, Farrow said that outside the assault, Allen behaved inappropriately with her.
“He would follow me around. He was always touching me, cuddling me and if I ever said, you know, like ‘I want to go off by myself,’ he wouldn’t let me,” she added. “He often asked me to get into bed with him when he had only his underwear on and sometimes when only I had my underwear on.”
To those who have contended that Farrow is simply on a mission to knock down her adoptive father, she has a simple answer. “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?”
In response to the “CBS This Morning” interview, Allen has issued a statement regarding the allegation. It follows below:
When this claim was first made more than 25 years ago, it was thoroughly investigated by both the Child Sexual Abuse Clinic of the Yale-New Haven Hospital and New York State Child Welfare. They both did so for many months and independently concluded that no molestation had ever taken place. Instead, they 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.
But 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. I never molested my daughter – as all investigations concluded a quarter of a century ago.
Allen’s next film “A Rainy Day In New York” is in post-production, and is currently slated to be released by Amazon. The full interview with Farrow can be viewed below:
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Give ‘em hell Woody.
I believe him.
Fuck off Woody
We’re in a era of group think and angry mob justice so Woody might as well save his breath. He’s done good work, maybe it’s time to just set sail into the sunset, enjoy whatever years he has left. It’s the rest of us who are fucked.
I won’t take sides in this, but if the LAW has a resolution for the case, it’s done.
No actor should be ashamed for working with a person who is innocent by law and seems to be a “healed” person so far.
The same goes for Casey Affleck, the law has a resolution and there wasn’t signs of new crimes, so he can be considered a healed jerk.
Spacey, Weinstein and all the rest are paying for their crimes and I find that amazing, but each case is a case.
Oh for crying out loud – I’m this close to moving to the US just to hire a lawyer and shut her up myself.
Most of the things she is saying about him could be said by almost every father. I got into bed with my dad when we both were wearing only our underwear, my dad cuddled me all the time and he was very aware of where I was every day. In other words he was a very attentive father which in no ways made him a child molester! The only weird thing he did to Dylan was the finger sucking incident, which he denies.The fondest memory I have of my dad was crawling into bed with him and watching Doctor Who and European football. He died of Leukemia years ago and every day I miss him. It is so sad that Mia has not been able to forgive and move ahead with her life, and now it’s affecting her kids. So sad!
It’s impossible to know what really happened. It’s entirely possible that Mia Farrow angry about the breakup of a long-term relationship helped to manufacture memories to paint her ex as a child molester. Memories that Dylan still has, even though the events she remembers never occurred. It’s also possible that he really did molest Dylan Farrow. We’ll never know and those that think they do know are kidding themselves.