Woody Allen’s son defends him, says mom Mia Farrow abused all her children
The sad, sordid saga of Woody Allen and the Farrows Who Loathe Him moved to a more toxic level Wednesday: One of his sons with Mia Farrow reiterated that Allen never molested his 7-year-old daughter, and added that Farrow physically and emotionally abused all her children for years.
Moses Farrow, 40, a professional family therapist, posted on his blog a lengthy essay, “A Son Speaks Out,” declaring again what he’s said before: That Allen did not abuse his younger sister and Allen’s daughter, Dylan Farrow, in August 1992 at Mia Farrow’s Connecticut home.
“Given the incredibly inaccurate and misleading attacks on my father, Woody Allen, I feel that I can no longer stay silent as he continues to be condemned for a crime he did not commit,” wrote Moses Farrow, who was adopted by Farrow from South Korea in 1980 and later was co-adopted by Allen.
“I was present for everything that transpired in our house before, during, and after the alleged event,” Moses wrote. “Now that the public hysteria of earlier this year has died down a little and I have some hope that the truth can get a fair hearing, I want to share my story.”
His story is that there was no time when nor any place in the house where Allen, now 82, could have spirited Dylan away to molest her. Farrow, enraged by Allen’s affair with another of her adopted daughters, Soon-Yi Previn, now 47, had instructed Moses to keep a close eye on Allen.
“Along with five kids, there were three adults in the house, all of whom had been told for months what a monster Woody was,” writes Moses. “None of us would have allowed Dylan to step away with Woody, even if he tried.”
Having failed to persuade authorities to charge Allen with a crime at the time, Farrow and their daughter, now 32, plus her biological son with Allen, Ronan Farrow, 30, have been trying to damage Allen and his movie career by other means, mostly through jeremiads in the media and via social media.
Allen has always denied he abused his daughter, and her claims and that of her mother’s were investigated by Connecticut authorities decades ago. Their conclusion: Nothing happened. Allen has never been charged.
“Mia reached the end of the legal runway after it was determined that the abuse never occurred,” Moses wrote. “But trial by media thrives on the lack of long-term memory and Twitter requires neither knowledge nor restraint.”
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