01x04 - Episode Four

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September 24, 1993

At this time I'd like to read

a written decision.

This decision addresses

certain sexual as*ault allegations

surrounding events

in Bridgewater, Connecticut,

on August 4th, 1992

involving Mr. Woody Allen.

I consider the state police investigation

to be thorough and complete,

and I commend the investigator

for their efforts

performed in an atmosphere

that was anything but conducive

to a smooth-running investigation.

As to the allegations contained in the

submitted arrest warrant application

I find that probable cause exists.

The option was clear:

have Allen arrested,

go to trial ultimately, and put the

child on the stand as my first witness.

But my concern was the further

traumatization of the child.

She had already

been through so much.

Was it truly in her best interest

to put her on the stand?

This is a story of two

of the biggest stars in the world.

The father is Woody Allen,

writer, director, actor.

The mother is Mia Farrow,

his frequent co-star,

and the mother of his three children,

two of them adopted.

Woody and Mia

have been together for 12 years

but never married

and kept separate residences.

She reportedly has a video

of their adopted daughter Dylan

explaining how Allen molested her.

Allen denies child abuse,

but freely admits

he's in love with another of Farrow's

daughters, 21-year-old Soon-Yi.

Allen said the newest allegations

are the bizarre concoctions

of a woman scorned.

Miss Farrow's only concern

have been exclusively

the protection of her children.

ALLEN V. FARROW

Episode 4

I met with Dylan Farrow

in early September 1993,

in what we considered to be

a child-friendly atmosphere.

In my office we had stuffed animal

toys strewn around the library.

The child was also there

with a female state trooper

that she had a fairly good

relationship with.

I'm on the floor with Dylan

playing with the toys.

I'm telling her about my son.

After some time

I start questioning her

about her relationship

with what I called "Daddy Woody."

She was totally unresponsive.

You could see a glazed look

over her eyes.

I said, "Tell me what's

about Daddy Woody."

Nothing at all.

Complete freezing at that point.

The strongest proponents

for prosecution

just looked at me and we all

shrugged our shoulders.

We weren't going anywhere

with this child.

I found probable cause.

Yet despite meeting

that standard,

and because of the risk

of exposing a child complainant

to the rigors, uncertainties,

and possible traumatization

of such actions,

accordingly I am announcing

my decision

not to initiate a prosecution.

The case, for all practical purposes,

ended with my decision

September of '93.

The prosecutor says he will always

be available to Dylan as she grows up,

to explain what happened

and why he did not press charges.

But one day Dylan may certainly

wonder if authorities

made the right decision by excusing

Woody's alleged behavior

to spare her a public trial.

I did not want more of this.

I didn't want more press,

more courts.

I was just glad to have my children.

I just wanted nothing more.

No punishment of Woody

would be worth punishing Dylan.

We just needed it

to be peaceful again.

Is there - is there a light?

Okay.

Well, here I go.

While

While one might think

that I would be happy or grateful

over the decision

to drop the investigation

by the Connecticut authorities,

I am merely disgusted

that my children

have been made to suffer unbearably

by the unwholesome

alliance between a vindictive mother

and a cowardly, dishonest,

irresponsible state's attorney

and his beliefs.

I want to send this message

to my little girl:

don't worry,

the dark forces will not prevail.

Connecticut

After the whole custody trial

my mom stopped having

to go to court all the time,

and we moved away

from the city.

That was great!

- Was it?

- Yes.

- Come and do your handstand.

- I want you to see something.

And there was sort of a grace period

where I thought,

okay, this is great;

I can start over.

We never talked

about Soon-Yi or Woody.

But there was a long period

of guilt for me.

I felt like I had caused

a rift in my family.

I felt if I'd just

kept his secret

that I could've spared

my mom all this grief,

and my brothers

and sisters, myself.

None of my older siblings

were ever the same.

How are you feeling, Daisy?

I just remember my family

was turned upside down.

We were all devastated.

It was a sad time.

I think most of us tried

to get through with our lives.

Kids, Fletcher is leaving for college.

Come say good-bye.

We were a tight

family unit and

that was much less

so the case after this.

People went

into survival mode.

It's just a really difficult time

for everybody, especially Dylan.

- Santa didn't forget you, did he?

- Nope.

When she was growing up

she was sullen and anxiety-riddled,

like, riddled with anxiety.

I was younger, but even then the signs

of her being depressed were obvious.

- What are you doing with that?

- Taking your picture.

She was always hidden away,

writing her stories,

or she was drawing,

and she kept to herself a lot

so didn't feel the right to ask her;

I didn't think it was my place.

The only reason I even knew

about anything that had happened

is from the news, and media,

and that's it.

And it was kind of like

a Voldemort situation,

He Who Must Not Be Named situation,

he was never brought up.

Growing up I never spoke about it

with any of my siblings.

None of them asked.

They all went through their own

gauntlet of emotions over this.

Is she six? Is she seven?

Is she eight?

Is she nine? Is she ten?

Is she 11?

Is she 12? Is she 13?

Is she 14?

Yay, 14!

I spent a lot of high school

feeling like there was something

fundamentally wrong with me.

I felt like I was the only person

that this had ever happened to.

I was completely isolated.

I was hiding a part of myself that

I really should've been

honest about.

I could've had

healthier relationships

with friends, with men,

with my siblings

I didn't even speak about it

in any depth with my mom,

even with my therapist.

I had literally

one boyfriend in high school,

and that lasted three weeks.

I remember listening to some

of the other girls in my class

talk about the things they were

doing with boys and thinking,

oh my God, at some point

he's going to want this,

and that was terrifying.

So I broke up with him.

And it was a relationship I wanted.

- Breaking up with a certain person?

- Yes.

- Is that what you were doing?

- Yes.

- So how do you feel?

- Very liberated.

Good for you.

Yeah. I feel kind

of bad for him though.

What made you do it?

I needed more space

and more time.

So what's the next plan?

What are your priorities?

My priorities

I would

just like to be better than I am.

Ladies and gentlemen,

Mr. Woody Allen!

I could ask you about the crisis

that you had recently in your life

regarding your wife, Soon- Yi,

and all the surrounding stories

that were about that.

Did that have an effect on your

perception within America?

Did it make you less popular?

Did it affect your movie?

No, it was an interesting thing.

I had always been unpopular,

and when I was going through public

talk about my life, my private life,

all it did - those people that had

never liked me reconfirmed it.

They said, "I always knew he was

a terrible little c*ck,"

"and this proves it."

Those people that liked me

continued to like me.

It was of no consequence.

Apart from not going out in public

without a fake nose and glasses,

I simply went

about my business and worked.

Being innocent

I felt it's not my problem.

I can carry on.

I'm not going to sacrifice

precious work time over a bad call.

Their high-profile affair

stunned the public

and became grist

for the tabloids.

Now actor

and film director Woody Allen

and his long-time

girlfriend Soon-Yi Previn

are husband and wife.

The 62-year-old Allen

and 27-year-old Previn

were married Tuesday at a small

secret wedding in Venice, Italy.

Yeah, that's right, it's me.

It's me, you've seen me

in those films. I'm the guy.

Hi fellas! Don't get too excited.

I come here a few times a year.

Connecticut

Did you ever get into another intimate

partnership with a person after Woody?

- Yes?

- I did.

But I never

brought them home,

because I just didn't want to risk

anybody falling for one of my beautiful

children or grandchildren.

If I couldn't trust Woody

after 12 years,

how would I would never take

another risk with anybody else.

I don't know.

I don't trust myself to know.

How would you know?

I don't know.

So I never brought them home.

You want the box open, honey?

His front tooth, he lost it.

What do you have to say about it?

How does it feel?

Great.

My mother did such a good job

of shielding us from all of this.

She went above and beyond

to never say anything

that would be construed

as critical of my father

or pushing us to think

or say one thing or another.

She really just tried

to distance us and shield us.

But for all of us growing up

there was always

a lot of incentive to be drawn

into Woody Allen's efforts

to discredit my sister.

For example, he made funding

my college education

contingent on me speaking out

in his support publicly.

The offer always stood

that if I were willing

to publicly go against

my mother and my sister

that he would offer financial support,

support for my education,

and perhaps, a comfortable life

with a powerful, influential guy.

I think it was hugely derailing for

my mom personally and professionally.

I think it's pretty devastating

if you build a life with somebody

and have a large family,

and then turns out that everything

you thought was true is not true.

Nobody really wanted to hire me

except in other countries.

I got offered movies

in Ireland and in France,

so I took every job I could.

But he told me I would never

work again in this country.

What?

He said,

"No one will ever hire you again."

But then UNICEF invited me

to come on board with them

on the issue of polio

Polio eradication

means a lot to me personally.

I was inflicted

with polio as a child.

Then they made me an ambassador,

and then I said I want to go to Darfur,

because there was a genocide

unfolding there.

If you can leave people with one image

of what you want people to know,

what would that be?

Two and a half million people

have been driven out of their villages,

are forced to live amidst deplorable

conditions in these refugee camps.

It was just deeply meaningful work,

and that became completely consuming.

We need the political

will to act now.

We need moral leadership

to act now.

Live from the Kodak Theatre,

Hollywood and Highland,

welcome to the

74th Annual Academy Awards.

Academy Awards (2002)

Let me tell you

why I'm here exactly.

About four weeks ago

I was sitting home

in my apartment in New York

and the phone rang,

and a voice on the other end said,

"This is the Motion Picture Academy

of Arts and Sciences."

And I panicked immediately

because I thought

that they wanted their Oscars back.

Tell me why we're all

so fascinated by Woody Allen.

Is it just talent,

or is it something else?

Good writing, good directing,

you usually get a really good movie

at the end of it.

He has a mystique to him.

He's - and actors love him

because he trusts them.

I'm in debt to my loyal friend

and a remarkable artist, Woody Allen.

Thank you for having written

over all these years

some of the greatest characters

for women.

For any actor it is always

an extraordinary experience

to have the chance

to work those dialects.

I feel very lucky to be sitting

on this couch with a proven genius.

We have this idea of the genius

and the artist,

the doer, the person

who's making things happen,

and they're controlling the narrative,

and we want to align with that,

and we want to believe in it, we want

to identify with these characters.

We spend our lives listening

to their side of the story.

We want to be next to power.

We want to be next to the winner.

Woody Allen is someone who we accept

as kind of this philosopher.

And if we hear anything

troubling about a person

that sort of might've informed

our values at all,

we're not going to want

to believe it.

I think so much of this is about

our willingness to not know the thing

so that we don't have to deal with it.

When you're forced to see,

when you're forced to know,

it's so dispiriting, it's so hopeless,

it's so uncomfortable.

It's just easier, right,

to opt out and to go back.

What?

The movie, your movie, the French

have seen your movie in Paris

and they say it's the greatest

American film in 50 years.

- You're kidding!

- No.

You're being hailed

as a true artist.

There's an additional layer

of distortion

when this kind of an allegation

is raised against someone

who is not just beloved

in a traditional sense,

but beloved in a way where people

have an identity association with it,

where it's existential to them

that they grew up loving Woody Allen.

You see it with a lot of fans

of individuals

who are accused of terrible

and serious things in a credible way.

About 2 hours ago Michael Jackson was

arrested on child molestation charges.

I think it's all fabricated, it's lies,

it makes me cross, very angry.

There have been a lot of people

that once they do research

and they look

into what the truth really was,

they finally understand

what happened to Michael Jackson.

I think the public

has a great deal of trouble

believing that someone

they like could be a sex offender.

The public is very harsh

towards sex offenders,

as long as they are over

there and unlikeable.

Bill Cosby was my boyhood mentor.

There was no one bigger.

Over a dozen women

have come forward

alleging that they've been r*ped

by the legendary comic.

So watching this play out over

the last few years, for a lot of folks,

it's very, very difficult.

The kind of attachment

that people get to celebrities,

it's a little like the attachment

they have to a family member

just projected on someone

that they've never actually spoken to.

Roman Polanski became famous as the

director of such classics as Chinatown,

he has been infamous for having sex

with a 13 year old girl.

People get very invested

in that person's persona,

and they trust them.

People don't give up trust easily.

This director

who r*ped a 13-year-old

He didn't r*pe a 13-year-old.

It was statutory r*pe, all right?

So why do you side with him?

Because I

his version sounds more likely.

Quentin Tarantino later issued

an apology for his statement.

She wasn't unschooled

in sexual matters.

She was consenting and willing.

Then you have sex against your will?

This is not consensual?

Right, this is not consensual.

I was, "No - no."

If you are powerful celebrities,

rich men,

people are more likely

to believe your denials.

You are nearly impossible

to prosecute.

What's the position now

with regard to your children?

I still don't see my daughter.

I left her.

She threw her arms around me

and gave me

a list of presents to bring back to her

the next day I was going to see her,

which was two days later.

And she was 7 years-old then,

and we were close,

she was crazy about me, I was crazy

about her, I am, still of course,

and I've not been able to see her.

Connecticut

Luna! You see this?

Go get it.

Go for it? Nope.

These dogs don't hunt.

She used to.

She used to be more interested in toys,

but now you're older, wiser.

When we first met we were

at pivotal dating moments in our lives

where we were both looking for

something serious at the same time.

I was going on the Onion

for satire purposes

and I saw they had a dating site

powered by OkCupid.

And I'm, like, why not?

Maybe I'll find someone funny.

And I put this very honest

post up - profile up there,

saying, "I'm a geek

but you can take me out in public.

I shower, I promise,"

you know?

And within the first day I got

this really surprising message

from this really smoking-hot girl

with this burgundy bob,

and this cute little chin,

and I was, like - and it said,

"You didn't mention

you were a cute geek."

And I'm, like, oh my

It was the first and last time

I've ever flirted with someone.

Yeah, but you knocked it out

of the park. That's a win.

I felt really connected to him

really quickly.

I had never connected

to anyone like that before.

At first,

when we first started dating,

and we first started going into

the natural intimacies of dating,

I had no idea

about her past in that way.

It didn't really come up

until one day

we were just having some fun,

and suddenly she tensed up.

She just really tensed up,

and then immediately

just started crying uncontrollably.

And it turned out that I had

inadvertently triggered something.

A lot of it was based on actually

her lying down on her stomach

because it's the same position

she was in the attic.

And I didn't think of myself

as an incest survivor.

I heard about r*pe in the news

and it was just something

that happened to other people,

and it was much worse

than what I'd been through.

I had no right to complain about

anything that had happened to me

because it wasn't - it didn't fall

neatly into a specific category.

I just

I'm shaking talking about this.

That was, like, weird.

I got, like, shaky for a second.

Yeah, I just need a second.

My jaw is shaking.

I'm sorry.

I don't know.

I don't know. I'm just

My jaw is chattering.

And I'm not cold.

I'm not cold. I just

There was a period of time

in which my sister was saying,

"Look, I have consistently

told this story for years

and no one is listening,

and I want to go public with it again."

I said, "This is not worth it.

You are going to make

your entire life an identity

about this one thing

that happened to you as a kid."

I hadn't yet thoroughly interviewed her

or looked at the facts.

I just wanted

to run away from this.

By then I was a public figure,

and all I wanted was for it to go away.

Ronan Farrow spent several years

working at the State Department,

including in the Office

of the Special Representative

for Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Ronan Farrow joins us at the table.

Ronan, good morning.

- Such a pleasure to be here, guys.

- Great to have you.

I spent years of my life trying to

build my own career and reputation

and do work that I cared

about and believed in,

and wanting

to avoid questions about this.

She and I had

knock-down-drag-out fights

where I essentially

told her to shut up,

where I said,

"We're clearing 20 years out,"

or whatever it was at that point,

"for God's sake, just leave it behind."

He asked me for the first time,

he said, "What happened to you?"

And he was obviously very

he was very sensitive about,

he was, like, "You don't have

to tell me if you don't want to."

But he asked me,

and so I shared it with him,

the whole everything.

And after I was done

there was a long silence,

and he just started crying.

She was incredibly brave

about saying, "No, this is the truth.

I have never changed my story.

There is evidence on my side.

If you actually read these

court documents you'll see that."

And I did.

For the first time as an adult,

as a journalist, as an attorney,

I read the court documents.

And my reaction

was, well, holy sh*t,

I've been turning away from

a real miscarriage of justice here.

Ladies and gentlemen,

Diane Keaton!

Golden Globe Awards (2014O

Thank you very much.

Thank you, thank you.

I think it's safe to say

that Woody Allen is an anomaly.

He's made 74 movies

in 48 years.

He's directed him, he's starred

in them, he's produced them,

and of course

he's written them.

He's written all of them,

every one.

I wasn't even watching

the Golden Globes,

and all of a sudden

my phone started blowing up,

and people were saying,

like, "I'm so sorry,"

like, "you shouldn't have

to go through this."

And then I saw

what they were talking about

The feature, for me anyway,

that sets Woody's writing apart

are the voices of four decades

of unforgettable female characters,

starting with la-dee-da Annie Hall

And

I had a panic attack,

and I felt so small.

a genius who takes chances

and never compromises his vision,

a filmmaker who fills his movies

with wry observation,

frequently painful truth, and some

of the best one-liners in history.

As I'm watching this I was reluctantly,

grudgingly realizing

that I as a public person by then

had to make a decision about whether

I was going to turn away from this.

And so I tweeted about it in a much

more direct way than I had before.

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?

At some point in the evening

my husband came in and he said,

"You know, Ronan tweeted

this really cool thing."

It was kind

of a light bulb moment because

It felt like

somebody's talking about it.

I remember her calling me

and crying,

and saying

that it just meant so much to her

that after we had had all these fights

where I had told her to shut up,

that someone had finally

acknowledged her.

That was sort of the watershed

moment for me,

where I felt like if Ronan

is talking about it

maybe I can talk about it, too.

But the doctor

I was seeing at the time said,

"If you go into this you

are going to undo

all of the hard work

that you've done to heal yourself."

And my first thought was,

there has been no healing.

So I wrote this essay

and I sent it

to the New York Times

and the L. A. Times

opinion section.

She went very far down

the editorial process

with a major national newspaper,

which then resulted

in the editor calling me,

as a fellow journalist,

and saying, "We can't run this.

We have to cancel this even though

we feel like it checks out."

And then I reached out

to Nick Kristoff.

I had known

Mia and Ronan Farrow for years.

We were engaged

in activities on Darfur.

Ronan told me

that Dylan had written an essay

and might I be able to help?

I found her essay heartbreaking

and just devastating,

and I thought

it should have an outlet.

There were some raised eyebrows

at the Times.

It really appropriate

for a columnist to use his blog

to publish something

that the Times itself

does not want to publish

on the op-ed page?

Is it appropriate in particular when

that columnist is a family friend?

I also think that there was

still a culture at that point

of being careful about

giving voice to accusations

and protecting powerful men.

But at the end of the day Dylan

had written this extraordinary piece

from the heart,

and how could we not give

the person at the center of this

a chance to give her account

of something everybody else

in America had already talked about?

"What's your favorite

Woody Allen movie?

Before you answer

you should know,

when I was 7-years-old

Woody Allen took me by the hand

and led me

into a dim closet-like attic.

He told me

to lay on my stomach

and play

with my brother's electric train set.

Then he sexually assaulted me.

For as long as I could remember

my father had been doing things

to me that I didn't like.

I didn't like it when he would

stick his thumb in my mouth.

I didn't like it when he would

place his head in my naked lap

and breathe in and breathe out.

I would hide under the beds

or lock myself in the bathroom

to avoid these encounters.

But he always found me.

I thought this was how fathers

doted on their daughters.

But what he did to me

in the attic felt different.

I couldn't

keep the secret anymore.

Others are still scared, vulnerable,

and struggling

for the courage to tell the truth.

The message that Hollywood sends

matters for them.

So imagine your 7-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.

Now what's your favorite

Woody Allen movie?

I had gone for two decades

feeling like I was alone in this.

One of the first things that happened

within days of the essay being released

is that so many separate people

from my life

contacted me and talked

about what happened to them.

I think the gift that they

didn't realize they were giving me

was that I wasn't alone, or I

wasn't as alone as I thought I was.

And part of that,

there was something very reassuring,

but also devastating.

Because now I know

that so many people in my life

were suffering silently

the same way I was.

Imagine my sadness when not

only did Dylan not want to see me,

but instead wrote an open letter

saying I molested her.

The openness is important,

as the strategy behind going public

is not to resolve anything

but to smear me, her mother's goal.

I have so much respect for Dylan,

of who she is,

and what she had to do,

and how she did it.

To see Dylan claim herself,

her whole self,

and that meant going back

and getting little Dylan

and making her a part of this,

I just told her

how proud I was of her.

But inside I just crumple up,

because I know it's

I know he's going to attack me,

because he can't really

you know

How can you attack her?

She was a child.

So you can only attack me.

I'd always hoped

when Dylan grew up

she would somehow realize

how her mother had used her,

taking full advantage of her age

and vulnerability

to deprive her of her father,

knowing it was the surest

vengeance toward me.

Film director Woody Allen

promises to fight renewed

allegations of child molestation.

The Times

published his lengthy rebuttal,

blasting the allegations as false,

and blaming former girlfriend,

Mia Farrow, for manipulating Dylan.

"I love her",

he writes of his daughter"

and hope one day she will grasp

how she has been exploited

by a mother more interested

in her own festering anger

than her daughter's well-being."

He writes,

"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 be a strong mother

to hate her father,

the image of me Mia

wanted to establish had taken route.

It was very difficult

to have come forward

with something so deeply personal

and be told that

not only are the things

you're saying not true,

but that you don't have the authority

to speak about your own experiences.

Welcome back. Tonight another child

of Mia Farrow and Woody Allen

is speaking out in defense

of Woody Allen.

Moses Farrow's interview

is in the new issue of People Magazine.

He says his sister Dylan's

renewed allegations

that Allen molested her when

she was seven are flat out made up.

I got a call from my mom

saying that there was

a reporter from People Magazine

who was talking to Moses,

and he was accusing me

of lying about my abuse,

and accusing my mom

of abusing him.

Moses goes on to say

that during his childhood

he was physically harmed,

really horrible person

- Physically harmed by

- By Mia.

He really goes to great lengths

to paint a portrait of his childhood

that was nothing short of horrific.

I shared a bedroom with Moses.

I never saw anybody

dragged downstairs,

I never saw anybody hit

or locked in closets

I have no idea

why he would do this.

He is suddenly speaking ill

of my family, of my mom.

The was the typical grounding,

yelling when we did something wrong.

But nothing a*usive.

- Nothing at all.

- No.

The things he accuses her of

are just ludicrous.

I absolutely would've remembered

if she locked us in barns

and smacked us

and screamed at us.

I saw his rapport with my mother.

My mom was devoted to Moses.

She was kind and gentle to him.

And all through my childhood

and much of my adult life

Moses stood by my sister

and my mother.

MOSES HANDWRITTEN CARD

TO MIA WHEN HE WAS 29

I am forever grateful

of the love you offered and shared.

You are an extraordinary woman

and I love you and our family.

Love Always

Moses + Kim + baby too!

He told numerous people in his life,

including his ex-wife,

that he believed Dylan.

We love and miss Moses,

and it's been really devastating.

When I received that phone call

I just remember bursting into tears

like

It was like I'd been told

that this person

that I knew,

and loved, and trusted was gone.

He says the incident in question

that Dylan outlined in her letter,

the incident in the attic

with the train set,

couldn't have happened

by his own memory

and he himself was a child

because on that day

they were all in public rooms,

and so there's simply

no way it could have happened.

In a 2018 blog post, Moses stated:

"As the 'man of the house' that day,

I had promised to keep an eye out

for any trouble

I deliberately made sure to note

everyone's coming and going."

Records show that in 1992,

Moses told police that he wasn't aware

of Dylan's whereabouts at all times.

Moses stated that he saw Dylan

leave the room.

He did not see Dylan after that, until

his mother came home from shopping.

According to Woody Allen's

1993 testimony,

Moses was not with Woody Allen

for much of that day.

ABRAMOWITZ: Did you spend time

with Moses on August 4th?

ALLEN: No

He was present on August 4th.

But he was off by himself.

He was in an angry mood.

disputed Dylan's account of her abuse,

questioning her memory

of a train set in the attic:

" there was no electric train set

in that attic"

did somebody

suggest to the adult Dylan

that such a specific detail

would make her story more credible?"

New to the story

was a fresh creative touch.

Something thar never came up

a single time

during the months of investigation

in any of Dylan's numerous interviews.

That is Dylan suddenly claiming

she was molested

while she stared if the electric trains

in the attic going round and round.

In August 1992, three detectives

observed a small train set

assembled in the attic crawl space

and documented its location

in a detailed drawing

Toy Train Track

Dylan mentioned the train set

in at least seven interviews

with her pediatrician

an key investigators in 1992.

Mother's attic has a train.

She stated that she was playing

with a train set

She said "To play with the trains."

They went into the "attic"

to play with the train.

I was now

the real-life protagonist

of a drama about an innocent person

wrongly accused.

Of course, unlike Hollywood,

no Jimmy Stewart or Henry Fonda

emerged suddenly to take my case

and right the wrongs.

But in real life some rose

and were fearless enough

to take a principle stand.

You accepted an award recently

for Woody Allen.

- Did you have any trepidations?

- No, of course not.

You have to look at my life

this way.

He gave me my opportunity

to be here and talk to you.

It's all because of Woody Allen.

Alec Baldwin

was one of the very few

with the courage to speak out

bravely and clearly on my behalf.

Alec Baldwin continued to defend

and battle direct to Woody Allen

who has been accused of sexual abuse

by adopted daughter Dylan Farrow.

Javier Bardem said he has doubts

about the longstanding allegations

of sexual misconduct

against the filmmaker.

Actor Adrien Brody recently weighed in

on the sexual as*ault allegations

against filmmakers Woody Allen

and Roman Polanski.

People make mistakes in lives,

and, you know

Gotta forgive?

It's not for me to delve into.

It's not really my place.

I think that's a family issue and I

hope they can resolve it, I really do.

So there seemed to be not

a coordinated effort exactly,

but a series of commenters

defending him in a way

that I found kind of perplexing

and that seemed

to be repeating

a lot of the same talking points.

There is a very strong fact

in Woody's column, and that is this:

that a team of experts concluded back

then that Dylan was not abused.

Yale-New Haven

determined after six months

where everybody was interviewed

that it didn't happen.

You believe she believes it

because this idea was

The fact that the Yale New Haven

report is still cited

is evidence

of just how powerful it is

when a PR machine plants an idea

into the public narrative.

I at the time was in the media

and was getting the emails

from Leslee Dart and Woody Allen's

powerful PR team.

There were dozens of reporters from

major news outlets on those emails.

She basically positioned this as,

"Here's this way you can attack

this young woman's credibility.

Here's a validator you can put on air

to say that she's brainwashed."

And when you have Leslee Dart

on your payroll,

that is someone who can say,

"You'd better print this

or I'm going to withhold my clients

from you in the future."

Leslee Dart reps a lot of really big,

important celebrities.

She's known for being one of the people

who might blackball a journalist

for covering something in a way she

didn't like, which bears itself out.

When Ronan wrote an article for the

Hollywood Reporter about his father,

and Leslee Dart banned the Hollywood

Reporter from coming to the luncheon

that was celebrating the release

of Allen's new movie.

It does tell us a bit

about how Hollywood works though,

right, that these publicists

are very powerful.

They are out there

to create a narrative around

their influence around their client.

There is a culture

of transactional access journalism

where powerful PR people trade stories,

and plant stories,

and put into the public consciousness

whatever their clients want.

Is it a story? Is it a fantasy?

Dylan Farrow

had likely been coached.

- She had been coached

- had likely been coached.

Dylan may have been affected

by a product of Parental Alienation,

the ugliness between the spouses.

There have been cases

of Parental Alienation,

where one parent wants to turn

the child against the other parent,

and therefore may begin coaching

them as to a sexual abuse

that perhaps did not happen.

Since Woody's Allen's high profile

use of Parental Alienation

as a defense strategy in 1992,

it has become widely publicized

by the media

an extensively

and used in family courts.

Parental Alienation spread like

wildfire across the United States.

I'm in family court all the time.

I read about this in the case law,

and it's absolutely ubiquitous

that that claim

will be made in family court.

It's made almost every day

in every state across the country.

It got a hold in the court system

because it was easier

to blame a mother than to blame

a father for being an ab*ser.

It was way more believable

that a mother could be

hysterical, and angry, and upset

than a father could be an ab*ser.

In 98% of cases, when accused fathers

claimed Parental Alienation,

family courts did not accept the child

sexual abuse accusations as true.

From a study of published

family court decisions in the U. S.

over a 10-year period.

Meier (2020) Journal of Social

Welfare and Family Law

Not only do courts

not believe abuse

when it's alleged

by mothers against fathers,

women lose custody

for alleging abuse against fathers.

And they particularly lose custody

when they allege child sexual abuse

and child physical abuse.

Concerned parents protested this

very issue recently in downtown LA.

What do we want? Children protected.

When do we want it? Now.

We reported abuse

and I lost my grandchild.

I reported abuse and lost my son.

I reported abuse and lost custody.

The culture has to understand

the family courts

have been not only not protecting,

but really sending children to abuse.

Every year, custody courts require

an estimated 58,000 children

to have unsupervised contact

or live with a parent

who's been accused of abuse.

Silberg (2008) The Leadership Council

on Child Abuse Interpersonal Violence.

After being put in the custody

of their alleged ab*ser,

88% of children

reported new incidents of abuse.

These children never recover.

They have an increased rate

of suicide attempts.

They have severe

mental-health difficulties.

They have dissociative disorders.

For so many victims of incest

the long-term impact is devastating.

It feels isolating

to be a survivor of sexual abuse.

It doesn't go away.

It doesn't vanish overnight.

It's a lifelong sentence.

And this is not just my story;

there are still so many of us

out there who feel unseen,

who feel unheard,

who feel disbelieved.

It's the story of everyone who has

come up against a powerful figure

and had to hold their own

against ridiculous odds.

Allegations of sexual as*ault

made by a dozen actresses

against Harvey Weinstein

appeared online in early October.

And joining us at the table,

Ronan Farrow,

who investigated Weinstein

for ten months

and published this chilling New Yorker

story about alleged assaults and r*pes.

We are in this moment where women

are coming forward one after another

in industry after industry, telling

the hardest stories of a lifetime.

As he interviewed women making

accusations. Dylan was on his mind.

She made a very brave choice

to go public

because she thought

it could help others.

Dylan Farrow

says she's speaking up again

to have her voice included in the

Time's Up and Me Too conversations.

With so much silence

being broken,

it was important

to add my story to theirs.

Woody Allen was never charged

with a crime in this case.

But as we know

there was probable cause

determined by the Connecticut State's

attorney in '93,

but he didn't go through

with prosecution.

Frank Maco thought Dylan was

too fragile to face a celebrity trial.

Connecticut

I wished that I had testified or that

I had just been put up there anyway.

I don't wish that Frank Maco

had disregarded my mental health,

but I wish that I had been stronger,

that I hadn't crumpled so much

under the pressure.

I, to this day, feel like

I was given an opportunity to be brave

and I turned it down.

In Fall 2020,

Frank Maco and Dylan

met for the first time

since his 1993 decision.

When I made my decision back in 1993

not to prosecute

I told your mom at that time

that if at some point you wanted

to find out what I did, why I did it,

I would certainly meet with you and

answer whatever questions you had.

My mom made it known to me that I had

a lot to be very thankful to you for,

that I'd been spared

the circus of a courtroom

and all of that madness,

and probably trauma.

But a part of me really,

really wishes that I could've done it,

and that I could've

had my day in court.

You have every right to have

whatever feelings you have.

But I can tell you right now,

my fault because there was never

a chance that I would do that to you.

To just put you on the stand,

have you freeze,

is something

that's incomprehensible.

But I never want

to hear that you blame yourself.

I made the decision.

And do I think about it?

Of course.

That case - as many cases

as I've tried,

as many cases of sexual abuse

as I've tried,

as many m*rder cases

as I've tried,

what's the case

that's going to be with me

for the rest of my days?

My decision

in this investigation.

I wasn't exactly sure

what I wanted to say.

I guess I needed to hear that.

Thank you for everything!

About two months

after the allegations against Weinstein

Dylan wrote another op-ed,

this time for the L.A. Times,

and asked explicitly,

"Why hasn't the #MeToo movement

toppled Woody Allen yet?"

And in it she links the way

that Hollywood had protected

other predators to the way

people had protected her father

and renewed

her allegations against him.

I'm tired of not being believed,

and being told that

that I'm wrong about something

I know 100 percent for fact.

I'm tired of being told

that my experiences don't matter.

I'm tired of feeling

like he matters more than me.

I'm tired of this whole argument

of separating the art from the artist

so that you can feel better about it.

The #MeToo movement has forced the

country to take a second look at art.

- We've known for a long time that art

- not all artists are nice people.

Caravaggio m*rder*d somebody.

Charles Dickens

was an anti-Semite.

The list goes on, right?

The question is, at the end

of the day is it still good art?

What do we do with great art

made by bad people?

How is the work altered by our

knowledge of their badness?

Do we keep consuming it?

Do we not consume it?

What about Michael Jackson?

It's a slippery slope,

the whole idea

that we need a spotless moral

character for any artist,

because no one's going

to pass that test.

- Bill Cosby.

- I can't listen to it now.

- You can't?

- I can't separate it.

- You can't?!

- I can't.

To me it's a

Because there's love there.

There's love there.

When you look back at men

like Picasso

putting out his cigarette

on woman's cheek,

it's not, like, you know,

there was, like, a rising up

to argue

that we shouldn't buy Picassos.

If anything, those behaviors

burnished their images.

So there was this way

in which for a long time

these really aggro male behaviors

were part of the artist's image,

and part of maybe even

what made people interested in them.

The big question is what

do you do with these things

that are out there

and that mean something to you?

Do you never revisit them, or do you

revisit them and learn from them?

I think the mistake women make

is we fall in love with the artist.

- You are you listening?

- Yes, I'm listening.

- We fall in love with the artist

- I don't think that's a mistake.

I think she's right.

You can't separate!

When you write about Woody Allen

and you talk about Woody Allen,

and you don't speak

in the most glowing terms,

there tends to be response

from in particular male fans

who sort of argue with

the whole premise

that there might be

a biographical case

to be made

against Woody's work.

But I actually think that acknowledging

the biographical element,

withstanding it, and still continuing

to consume the art,

is a stronger argument

for the endurance,

and the beauty,

and the importance of art,

rather than pretending

that the biography doesn't touch it.

It's so much easier when nobody's

making any money, isn't it?

Wagner's not getting any money

when we perform his operas.

In the process

of spending all this time

understanding the mind of someone

who I thought of as a*usive,

and kind of understanding

how his mind worked,

and what made things tick,

it was giving him box office,

giving him press,

giving him more power.

And by writing about his movies

and contributing to his movies

I was increasing the power

that he was able to abuse.

And for me that was the line.

So I wrote an article

in the Hollywood Reporter

about how I wouldn't watch

anymore new Woody Allen films.

I had to turn off all my notifications.

I've never gotten so much hate mail.

I just, like, tried to be offline

for a while after I wrote this.

I haven't seen

a new Woody Allen film since,

and I probably

won't until he's dead.

I got an interview

with Roland Pollard.

Oh my gosh, that is amazing.

And it's on campus?

It's in Manhattan.

So one of the earliest actors to say

they wouldn't work with him again

and they wished

they hadn't in the past

was Griffin Newman who had shot

scenes for Rainy Day in New York.

He said he wished he hadn't done it,

and he donated his salary.

Several other people followed.

Rebecca Hall, and Timothee Chalamet,

and Selena Gomez,

all of these people started

donating their salaries as well.

When the first messages of support

actually came I was kind of shocked.

It was presented to actors

that these were people

who it was okay to work with.

But now of course I feel I can

just say I shouldn't have done.

Greta Gerwig Regrets

Working with Woody Allen

I think what they did took

a lot of bravery in and of itself.

And it's really helped me to

to reclaim some of my own

sense of self-worth.

And every message of support

that I've received has been a gift.

Over the past weeks several celebrities

have voiced their support for Farrow,

including Natalie Portman, who spoke

out on CBS Sunday Morning.

I believe Dylan. I want to say that.

I believe you, Dylan.

I do think

that my sister's ferocious courage

in insisting that she speak out

again as an adult

was part of a set of circumstances

that catalyzed more women

feeling empowered to speak.

And you can chart

how different the reaction was

when my sister spoke in 2014

and then when she again spoke in 2018.

The culture changed in that window

in a significant way,

and we are for the first time

hearing stories like hers,

and not spin and counternarrative.

The press lump me with any number

of men who were charged,

convicted, or admitted

to sex crimes or harassment

of large numbers of women

on numerous occasions,

despite the fact

the accusation against me

had repeatedly been found

not to have occurred.

Schools stopped giving courses

on my films.

I was cut out of a documentary

about the Carlyle Hotel.

I was cut out of a series

on poetry by PBS.

My completed film,

a Rainy Day in New York,

lay around undistributed in America,

though mercifully the rest of the world

was not so nuts.

A Rainy Day in New York grossed

more than $22,000,000 internationally.

Throughout her relationship

with Woody Allen,

Soon-Yi has remained mostly silent

but now the 47 year old is speaking out.

Previn told

New York Magazine quote,

"What's happened to Woody

is so upsetting, so unjust."

We should point out

that Woody Allen

was present for much of that interview

and he weighed in periodically.

Soon-Yi says Mia Farrow

had a tendency

of slapping and spanking Soon-Yi

or calling her stupid and moronic.

Mia's other children

have all contradicted Moses

and Soon-Yi's claims

that Mia was a*usive.

This is a very pointed piece.

It's out there because Woody Allen can't

make the movies that he wants to make.

Actors, actresses are apologizing

for having worked with him,

perhaps refusing to work with him.

It looks like his latest film

has been put on the shelf.

This is a calculated move

in a media w*r.

He's weaponized two of my children

that he's turned against me.

They are all people I loved

with all my heart, all of them.

And they're all people that I would

have laid down my life for.

And I love Soon-Yi.

It took me six years to throw away the

Christmas stocking I knitted for her,

thinking she would come back.

But she didn't.

When Dylan wanted to confront it

or Ronan did, or whatever,

I was always there to say

"You do what you need to do

and I'll be really proud of you,

whatever it is.

If you decide never to talk about it,

believe me I understand.

If you decide you need

to talk about it, I'm there with you.

I'm there with you.

And I'm super proud.

If that's part of an evolution,

oh my gosh, that's wonderful."

And then I would go home

shaking and thinking,

my God, I hope she doesn't.

Because I knew what would come,

and I'd be so scared.

I was so scared of him.

Are you still scared of him?

That shouldn't go with my strong

package that I'd like to present.

What makes you fearful?

I don't know. I'm just scared.

I'm scared of him, you know, of

A person who has no allegiance

to truth will do anything.

A person who will do anything

is somebody to be scared of.

And so I worried that when

this documentary comes out

he will be on the attack again.

He'll do whatever he has to do

to try to save himself,

from the truths,

from the mess he made.

If I could take it all back I would.

I wish I'd never met him, of course.

That's my great regret of my life,

to bring somebody like that

He should never have been

in the family.

Hello! Hi there!

- Do you want a cup of coffee?

- Always.

I know my daughter!

- Do you want milk or cream?

- Cream?!

- Cream?!

- I thought I did but I

My mind goes back

on what should I have done.

And I know what I should've done.

And then it's why didn't I?

And then who

was I that didn't do those things,

when I should have?

And I know

that I should have now.

Do you ever feel angry at me

for somehow letting this happen,

bringing this person in the house,

bringing this person into a family?

You very easily could have

chosen not to believe me,

to take his word over mine,

and just, you know I mean,

and I've talked to other survivors

that say to me,

"The difference in our story

is that my mom didn't believe me,

and my mom didn't protect me,

and my mom was not there for me.

She was not willing to fight for me."

Whatever other mistakes you made,

I just feel like

you were there when it mattered.

So this is the photo album

that I made for my daughter,

following in my mother's footsteps.

I made a photo album.

I kept all my cards

from my baby shower,

a couple four-leaf clovers that I found

within a week of each other.

Just maybe they're good luck.

Pictures of me all glowing,

and pregnant, and happy.

The second I found out

I was having a little girl

I was overjoyed,

but I was also terrified.

And there are moments when

I look at my daughter

and I see little flickers

of little Dylan in her,

and I get what my mom did for me,

how hard it was.

Hi!

I came to you with

we came here.

You came here, you did.

I'm so glad to see you.

Mommy can catch it.

Look, see what she did?

There's so much

about what I've been through

that I'll never be able

to fully explain.

I think that the best gift

that I could've given my daughter

is that she has a really

wonderful father.

Honestly sometimes when I watch

my husband and my daughter together

I actually feel a little jealous.

But it's bittersweet

because I know I'm paying it forward.

Dylan Farrow released her debut

She is currently working

on a sequel.

Mia Farrow continues to work

with the International Rescue Committee

to address malnutrition

in South Sudan and Chad.

Woody Allen completed

It was filmed

and released in Europe.

He and Soon-Yi Previn are still married

and have two children.

Neither Woody Allen

nor Soon-Yi Previn

responded to requests for interviews.

Moses Farrow

declined to be interviewed.

Woody Allen denies

ever having been sexually inappropriate

or a*usive with Dylan.