Woody Allen's Adopted Daughter Publicly Accuses Him Of Sexually Assaulting Her At Age Seven

Woody Allen's adopted daughter Dylan Farrow penned an open letter Saturday on a New York Times blog, publicly accusing the controversial filmmaker of sexually assaulting her when she was a young girl.
Farrow's first-person account, which appeared on reporter Nicholas Kritoff's blog, marks the first time that Miss Farrow, the daughter of actress Mia Farrow, has directly addressed the alleged sex abuse.


In gut-wrenching detail, Dylan Farrow wrote in her statement how at age seven, her adoptive father, Allen, allegedly led her by the hand to a dim attic on the second floor of their house.
'He told me to lay on my stomach and play with my brother’s electric train set,' Miss Farrow recounted. '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.'


Farrow went on to describe how the award-winning director of 'Annie Hall' and 'Manhattan' would always find a way to touch her and do things to her she did not like, including sticking his thumb in her mouth, forcing her to get into bed with him and placing his head in her naked lap.
'I thought this was how fathers doted on their daughters. But what he did to me in the attic felt different,' she said.

Allen has always denied the allegations of sexual abuse, which first came to light in 1993. He was never charged with, or convicted of, a crime in this case.
Allen and Mia Farrow broke up after it was revealed that the filmmaker began an affair with his adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn, whom he married in 1997.
In her open letter, Dylan Farrow claimed that Allen used his ‘sexual relationship’ with her stepsister, Soon-Yi, to cover up the abuse Dylan herself had allegedly suffered at his hands.
‘That he got away with what he did to me haunted me as I grew up,’ Miss Farrow wrote. ‘I was stricken with guilt that I had allowed him to be near other little girls.’
Dylan candidly talked about the effect the alleged ordeal had had on her later life, including a battle with eating disorders and her terror at being touched by men. The woman also said she began cutting herself. 

Farrow also used her soul-bearing confession to attack the Hollywood establishment for 'turning a blind eye' and helping along Allen’s career in the entertainment industry. 
‘Most found it easier to accept the ambiguity, to say, “who can say what happened,” to pretend that nothing was wrong,’ she said. ‘Actors praised him at awards shows. Networks put him on TV. Critics put him in magazines.




‘Each time I saw my abuser’s face – on a poster, on a t-shirt, on television – I could only hide my panic until I found a place to be alone and fall apart.’
Dylan Farrow's decision to offer a first-person account of her torment has been spurred by Allen's latest nomination for an Academy Award and last month’s Golden Globes ceremony, where he received the prestigious Cecil B DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award.It felt like a personal rebuke, like the awards and accolades were a way to tell me to shut up and go away,’ Dylan wrote.
Farrow, who described herself as a happily married woman, did not shy away from condemning the actors who have starred in her father’s films over the years, some of whom were on hand January 12 to present Allen with his Golden Globe.
‘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?’ she asked.
Farrow's family, including her mother and stepbrother Ronan Farrow, have been unwavering in their support for her.
On the night of the Golden Globes ceremony, Ronan Farrow, Allen's would-be son, brought up his sister's alleged assault in a scathing tweet. 
‘Missed the Woody Allen tribute - did they put the part where a woman publicly confirmed he molested her at age 7 before or after Annie Hall?’ the newly hired MSNBC host wrote.
Dylan Farrow concluded her letter with an appeal to the movie-going public to think twice before they rush to heap praise on her talented adoptive father.
‘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.

Source: Daily Mail