The 28-year-old Dylan Farrow has spoken out hours after her estranged father denied the sexual abuse allegations against him in an op-ed piece on Friday. Comments (83)
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Dylan Farrow, pictured here, recently wrote an open letter to The New
York Times detailing alleged abuse by Woody Allen when she was a
7-year-old.
Dylan Farrow has responded to Woody Allen's op-ed piece published Friday in the New York Times.
The 28-year-old shot down Allen's claim that her mother, Mia Farrow, coached her to believe she was sexually abused at age 7 by the now 78-year-old director.
"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," Farrow said in a statement to the Hollywood Reporter.
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"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."
"His op-ed is the latest rehash of the same legalese, distortions, and outright lies he has leveled at me for the past 20 years," she continued.
Allen’s response comes one week after Dylan published her open letter to the Times detailing how he molested her at their family's Connecticut home.
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The New York-based filmmaker did not hold back in his retort at pointing the finger at his former lover as the mastermind behind these allegations.
“Of course, I did not molest Dylan,” Allen wrote. “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.”
"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?" he added of Mia in his response.
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Mia and Allen dated for 12 years before he began a romantic relationship with her adopted daughter, Soon-Yi Previn.
Investigators cleared Allen of the allegation that he abused Dylan in 1992. Mia raised these accusations the following year when she and Allen were in the midst of a bitter break up.
Dylan added in her statement that at the time, "the Connecticut State prosecutor found 'probable cause' to prosecute, but made the decision not to in an effort to protect 'the child victim,' given my fragile state."
"Woody Allen has an arsenal of lawyers and publicists but the one thing he does not have on his side is the truth. I hope this is the end of his vicious attacks and of the media campaign by his lawyers and publicists, as he's promised. I won't let the truth be buried and I won't be silenced," she concluded.
The last line of Allen's piece stressed that this will be the last time he addresses these claims against him to the public.
This "will be my final word on this entire matter and no one will be responding on my behalf to any further comments on it by any party. Enough people have been hurt," he said
The 28-year-old shot down Allen's claim that her mother, Mia Farrow, coached her to believe she was sexually abused at age 7 by the now 78-year-old director.
"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," Farrow said in a statement to the Hollywood Reporter.
RELATED: SEE IT: MIA FARROW'S THREATENING 1992 VALENTINE TO WOODY ALLEN
"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."
"His op-ed is the latest rehash of the same legalese, distortions, and outright lies he has leveled at me for the past 20 years," she continued.
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Director and actor Woody Allen at the French premiere of 'Blue Jasmine.'
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The New York-based filmmaker did not hold back in his retort at pointing the finger at his former lover as the mastermind behind these allegations.
“Of course, I did not molest Dylan,” Allen wrote. “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.”
"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?" he added of Mia in his response.
RELATED: DYLAN FARROW 'HEARTENED' BY SUPPORT AFTER WRITING ABOUT WOODY ALLEN SEXUAL ABUSE
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Actress Mia Farrow pictured here with director Woody Allen, their son Satchel (Ronan) and adopted daughter Dylan.
Investigators cleared Allen of the allegation that he abused Dylan in 1992. Mia raised these accusations the following year when she and Allen were in the midst of a bitter break up.
Dylan added in her statement that at the time, "the Connecticut State prosecutor found 'probable cause' to prosecute, but made the decision not to in an effort to protect 'the child victim,' given my fragile state."
"Woody Allen has an arsenal of lawyers and publicists but the one thing he does not have on his side is the truth. I hope this is the end of his vicious attacks and of the media campaign by his lawyers and publicists, as he's promised. I won't let the truth be buried and I won't be silenced," she concluded.
The last line of Allen's piece stressed that this will be the last time he addresses these claims against him to the public.
This "will be my final word on this entire matter and no one will be responding on my behalf to any further comments on it by any party. Enough people have been hurt," he said
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