How Could You?Hall of Shame-Dylan Farrow case UPDATED

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From  California, “Dylan Farrow, who was adopted by the director and actress Mia Farrow, has given her first TV interview on the subject during which she stands by her claims.

The accusations of sexual assault were first made in 1992, claims Allen has vehemently and repeatedly denied.

The Me Too and Time’s Up movements to expose sexual misconduct in Hollywood have brought the claims to light once again.

In an interview with CBS This Morning with aired Wednesday, Farrow, now 32, pleaded to be believed.

‘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,’ she said.

In response to claims she has been spurred on by the Me Too movement to ‘bring Allen Down’, as CBS host Gayle King put it, Farrow was unapologetic.

‘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 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.

He wrote his own response to the Times saying that the authorities exonerated him of any wrongdoing.

The details came out in a bitter custody dispute and Hollywood initially dismissed the claims.

But it appears the tide may be turning given the recent scandals.

This week Farrow thanked Mira Sorvino for a letter saying she now believed the allegations having batted them away as lies in the early 90s.

In the letter which was published by Huffington Post, Sorvino writes that she chalked up Dylan Farrow’s claims that Allen sexually abused her when she was a child to ‘an outgrowth of a twisted custody battle between’ the Annie Hall director and his former partner.

‘I am writing to express my belief in and support of you,’ Sorvino writes.

‘I am overwhelmed and my gratitude to you cannot be expressed sufficiently in words,’ Farrow tweeted to Sorvino on Thursday.

‘This letter is beautiful and I will carry your words with me.

‘Your courage has been boundless and your activism an example for us all. From the bottom of my heart, thank you.’

Sorvino responded to Farrow with a tweet that read: ‘I am so deeply happy that you felt good about it.’

Sorvino, 50, apologized to Farrow, 32, for ‘not looking further’ into her allegations that she first revealed to her mother in 1993.

Sorvino writes that it was difficult to publicly renounce Allen, the director who cast her in the 1995 romantic comedy Mighty Aphrodite.

Her work on the film earned her an Academy Award for best supporting actress.

Mighty Aphrodite was a film distributed by Miramax, a company founded by Harvey Weinstein and his brother, Bob Weinstein.

Sorvino was one of the first actresses to publicly come forward with accusations that Harvey Weinstein harassed her in Toronto in 1995.

After she refused his advances, Sorvino said Weinstein had her ‘blacklisted’ by telling other filmmakers that she was difficult to work with, likely costing her roles in Hollywood.

Weinstein has denied the allegations.

Describing herself at the time as a ‘naïve young actress,’ Sorvino writes that she and Allen were ‘friendly though not close’ during the filming of the movie and that during their time together ‘in no way did he ever overstep his bounds with me.’

‘I never personally experienced [with Allen] what has now been described as inappropriate behavior toward young girls,’ Sorvino writes.

‘But this does not excuse my turning a blind eye to your story simply because I wanted desperately for it not to be so.’

‘I am telling the truth’: Woody Allen’s adopted daughter Dylan Farrow stands by her claims that the director molested her when she was a child

 

[Daily Mail 1/17/18 by Gareth Davies]

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Update:“Woody Allen’s daughter Dylan Farrow has gone into graphic detail for the first time on television, about how the director allegedly sexually assaulted her when she was a child.

‘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.’

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’.

‘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?’

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.

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.

Now, in the light of the Me Too and Time’s Up movements to expose sexual misconduct in Hollywood, the claims have resurfaced.

‘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…’

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.

He wrote his own response to the Times saying that the authorities exonerated him of any wrongdoing.

The details came out in a bitter custody dispute and Hollywood initially dismissed the claims. ”
‘He’s been lying for so long’: Dylan Farrow describes in graphic detail for the FIRST TIME on television how her father Woody Allen sexually assaulted her as she lashes out at director’s claims mom Mia Farrow ‘brainwashed’ her

[Daily Mail 1/18/18 by Hannah Perry and Gareth Davies]

Update 2:“On Sunday, Dylan Farrow, 35, the adopted daughter of filmmaker Woody Allen, offered a lengthy statement on Twitter in which she spoke of the video of her as a seven-year-old child speaking of the abuse she says Allen perpetrated upon her, an allegation Allen adamantly denies.

The video was shown as a part of the HBO four-part documentary series “Allen v. Farrow” that premiered Sunday night. In the video, the seven-year-old Dylan is heard saying that Allen told her, “Do not move, I have to do this,” as he touched her private area. Dylan continues, “I didn’t want him to do it, mama. I didn’t like it.”

Speaking as an adult in the documentary, Dylan Farrow stated, “We were in the TV room and he reached behind me and touched my butt and then he told me to come up to the attic with him. I remember laying there on my stomach and my back was to him so i couldn’t see what was going on. I felt trapped. He was saying things like we’re gonna go to Paris together; you’re gonna be in all my movies. Then he sexually assaulted me. I remember just focusing on my brother’s train set and then he just stopped. He was done. And we just went downstairs. I am that little girl on the tape. So… it’s a very vulnerable part of me, and a very… a very hurt part of me. There’s a lot of… that little girl is in a lot of pain.”

Farrow wrote on Twitter on Sunday:

I’m writing this, because to be totally honest I have been losing sleep and overcome with anxiety. Tonight’s episode of the Allen v. Farrow docuseries features a video of me as a seven-year-old child disclosing my abuse to my mother. My mother gave me this video when I became an adult to do whatever I wanted with it. It shows me as I was then, a young, vulnerable child. “Little Dylan,” whom I’ve tried ever since to protect.

Deciding to allow this tape to be viewed now publicly in this way has not been easy. I myself had resisted ever watching it until now. It had been long stored away in a closet. Scared. Buried. I almost didn’t offer it to the filmmakers, because being this vulnerable in public is absolutely terrifying for me. My fear in letting this tape come to light is that I am putting Little Dylan in the court of public opinion.

While I have been able to take the stones thrown at me as an adult, to think of that happening to this little girl is stomach-churning. But I decided to let them share it in hopes that Little Dylan’s voice might now help others suffering in silence feel heard, understood, and less alone. And that my testimony might also help parents, relatives, friends, loved ones and the world in general understand first-hand how an abused child might speak and interpret these horrific events.

There’s a third reason as well. Personally, I had, for decades, pushed “Little Dylan” away as a coping mechanism. So part of my goal in allowing her to now speak is also to try and find some healing for me and my childhood self. It’s an attempt to make them whole again, and find some peace and closure.

Ever since news of her abuse was inadvertently made public, I, my siblings, and my mother have all been subjected to an endless barrage of vitriolic slander and baseless rebuke; derision so painful that I separated myself from her in self-defense. I hid her away in the closet with the tape too— hidden, afraid, sad and hurt.

If you watch this video, I very much hope that you will do so with empathy, compassion and an open mind and heart and not use this as an opportunity to attack, turn away, criticize, mock; or to further shun “Little Dylan” and in doing so shame and silence the millions of abused children who are suffering in the world today. This is the most vulnerable part of who I am. I hope this tape helps us all find ways to allow painful secrets to come safely out of their closets so we all can heal and move forward in strength and peace. No longer ashamed, buried, scared, sad, and silent.”

‘I Hid Her Away In The Closet With The Tape Too’: Dylan Farrow Discusses Video Of Her As Child Alleging Abuse By Wooden Allen
[Daily Wire 3/1/21 by Hank Berrien]