Woody Allen‘s adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow, has published a graphic open letter in the New York Times claiming that the director sexually assaulted her as a child.
In 1992 actress Mia Farrow filed molestation charges against her long-time partner, claiming that Allen molested their daughter Dylan. He was not prosecuted because the child in question was deemed to be too “fragile” to provide trial testimony.
Here are some excerpts of what Dylan wrote in her open letter:
“What’s your favorite Woody Allen movie? Before you answer, you should know: when I was seven years old, Woody Allen took me by the hand and led me into a dim, closet-like attic on the second floor of our house. He told me to lay on my stomach and play with my brother’s electric train set. Then he sexually assaulted me. He talked to me while he did it, whispering that I was a good girl, that this was our secret, promising that we’d go to Paris and I’d be a star in his movies.”
“What if it had been your child, Cate Blanchett? Louis CK? Alec Baldwin? What if it had been you, Emma Stone? Or you, Scarlett Johansson? You knew me when I was a little girl, Diane Keaton. Have you forgotten me?”
“Woody Allen is a living testament to the way our society fails the survivors of sexual assault and abuse. So imagine your seven-year-old daughter being led into an attic by Woody Allen. Imagine she spends a lifetime stricken with nausea at the mention of his name. Imagine a world that celebrates her tormenter.”
“Are you imagining that? Now, what’s your favorite Woody Allen movie?” Read the entire open letter here.
Woody Allen has always denied any wrongdoing and claimed that Mia was simply bitter about his affair with another of their adopted daughters, Soon-Yi Farrow Previn, whom he later married. They have two adopted daughters.
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