Award-winning director Woody Allen has responded to allegations that he molested Dylan Farrow (the adopted daughter of Allen and Mia Farrow) when she was a child.
His lengthy written response, published by the New York Times on Friday night, was prompted by Farrow’s own open letter in the Times, which was published last weekend. In her letter, she alleged that Allen has molested her in a closet when she was seven years old, as well as performed other abusive acts during her childhood.
Allen’s response begins:
TWENTY-ONE years ago, when I first heard Mia Farrow had accused me of child molestation, I found the idea so ludicrous I didn’t give it a second thought.
He then asserts that Mia Farrow manipulated Dylan into telling doctors that Allen had abused her. He writes:
Mia insisted that I had abused Dylan and took her immediately to a doctor to be examined. Dylan told the doctor she had not been molested. Mia then took Dylan out for ice cream, and when she came back with her the child had changed her story. The police began their investigation.
This directly contradicts Dylan’s version of the story, in which she described being made to “recount [her] story over and over again, to doctor after doctor, pushed to see if [she’d] admit [she] was lying.”
Furthermore, Allen argues that the very nature of the alleged assault (in a small, attic-like closet) is impossible, because he suffers from claustrophobia. He goes so far as to say that the idea for what Allen asserts is a fabrication came from a Dory Previn song titled ‘With My Daddy in the Attic’, which was on the same record as a song Previn wrote about Mia engaging in an affair with her husband.
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I don't know if he is innocent or guilty but I think when people say child molesters usually have more than one victim, well if he is guilty we don't know if he does have more than one victim, look at that disgusting guy in Britain (forgotten his names - Jimmy Saville?) nothing came out about him till after he died yet it turns out he was a prolific abuser.
Also we already know that Woody has had a relationship with a woman who by society's standard (regardless of what the legality is) was considered his daughter. She was also very young when this happened. So we know he is capable of going after a very young woman who sees him as a father, this is a fact, so that indicates that there is a good chance that he has done this with another "daughter".
And for those who say that Dylan is his only victim, it seems to me that considering the questionable ethics of his relationship with Soon-Yi that perhaps Soon-Yi is also one of his victims, which would mean that he has at least 2 that we know of.
As for Mia, she may be barking mad as some people seem to think (I know little about her so I can't comment on her sanity) and if that's the case she might be lying, but then again maybe she has become unhinged because she has found out that the man she loved has abused her children.
There is another thing too Mia herself always had a very girlish look, flat chested innocent looking etc, so it would appear to me from that relationship that he may well be attracted to girlish looking women.
Now if you take all of this information together whilst we can't say for certain that he is guilty there certainly is quite a bit of evidence against him.
"Mia Farrow had accused me of child molestation, I found the idea so ludicrous I didn’t give it a second thought." Didn't give an accusation that you molested your own adopted daughter a second thought? How chillingly telling. These are the words of a master gaslighter surely.
Absolutely! Within the fist paragraphs it becomes glaringly obvious. This is not a normal response of an innocent man being accused of sexual assualt.