Moses Farrow pens 5,000-word defence of father Woody Allen, says sister was coerced into abuse claims by mother
Allen’s adopted son accused mother Mia Farrow of brainwashing
Woody Allen and Mia Farrow’s adopted son, Moses Farrow, on Wednesday defended his father from allegations of sexual assault made by his sister.
In 2014, Allen’s adopted daughter Dylan Farrow wrote an open letter alleging the director had sexually abused her when she was seven. Allen denies he molested his daughter. “It had been investigated by Yale and conclusions were clear and I have no interest in that whole situation,” he said in 2016. “I get harassed all the time on it. But it doesn’t affect me and I just have no interest in it.”
In the new blogpost Moses Farrow, a licensed therapist and professional photographer, disputes the allegations made by his sister, writing: “Dylan was alone with Woody in his apartment countless times over the years without a hint of impropriety, yet some would have you believe that at the age of 56, he suddenly decided to become a child molester in a house full of hostile people ordered to watch him like a hawk.”
Moses Farrow was 14 and the oldest of Farrow’s children in the home with Woody Allen on the day the alleged abuse took place in 1992.
Allen continued his successful filmmaking career after Dylan Farrow’s letter was published, but has faced renewed criticism in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal. Dozens of women have alleged Weinstein sexually harassed or assaulted them since October 2017, when The New York Times and Allen’s son, Ronan Farrow, published investigative reports about Weinstein.
In his blogpost, Moses Farrow also accuses his mother, Mia Farrow, of abuse, including slapping him, and brainwashing. “For all of us, life under my mother’s roof was impossible if you didn’t do exactly what you were told, no matter how questionable the demand,” he wrote.
When he made similar accusations in a book published in September 2017, Mia Farrow said in a statement: “Moses has cut off his entire family including his ex-wife who was pregnant when he left. It’s heartbreaking and bewildering that he would make this up, perhaps to please Woody. We all miss and love him very much.”