Woody Allen penned a New York Times op-ed of his own in response to his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow's open letter accusing him of sexually abusing her at age 7.
The legendary director denied the allegations and suggested that his ex-wife, Mia Farrow, was behind them.
Of course, I did not molest Dylan. I loved her and hope one day she will grasp how she has been cheated out of having a loving father and exploited by a mother more interested in her own festering anger than her daughter's well-being. Being taught to hate your father and made to believe he molested you has already taken a psychological toll on this lovely young woman.
Woody and Mia adopted Dylan, who's now 28, when she was 2. In the letter, the "Blue Jasmine" director even said his estranged daughter is not at fault because he's sure that she genuinely believes she's been abused.
Not that I doubt Dylan hasn't come to believe she’s been molested, but if from the age of 7 a vulnerable child is taught by a strong mother to hate her father because he is a monster who abused her, is it so inconceivable that after many years of this indoctrination the image of me Mia wanted to establish had taken root?
Allen wrote that Mia fabricated the accusation to punish him for his relationship with Soon-Yi Previn, the 19-year-old Farrow adopted with her ex-husband Andre Previn who Allen married in 1997. Investigators cleared Allen of the sexual abuse allegation in 1992 and Mia raised them the following year during their custody battle.
Mia called my sister in a rage and said, "He took my daughter, now I'll take his."
In the concluding sentence, Woody says the article will be his "final word on this entire matter" and no one will be responding further on his behalf.
Dylan, on the other hand, has responded to his piece, which ran online on Friday, with a statement to The Hollywood Reporter.
Once again, Woody Allen is attacking me and my family in an effort to discredit and silence me - but nothing he says or writes can change the truth. For 20 years, I have never wavered in describing what he did to me. I will carry the memories of surviving these experiences for the rest of my life.
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