Dylan Farrow gives first interview about Woody Allen allegations: ‘I am telling the truth’
DYLAN Farrow has given her first interview about her allegations of sexual abuse against Woody Allen.
DYLAN Farrow has given her first interview about her allegations of sexual abuse against Woody Allen.
Farrow, the adopted daughter of Allen and Mia Farrow, accused Allen of taking her into an attic and assaulting her in 1992, when she was seven years old. Allen has repeatedy denied the allegations.
In an interview with CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King, Farrow maintained she was telling the truth.
“I am credible and I am telling the truth and I think it’s important that people realise that one victim, one accuser, matters. And that they are enough to change things,” Farrow told King in the interview, which was recorded her home in Connecticut.
During the fallout of the Harvey Weinstein sexual misconduct scandal, Farrow penned an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times, asking, “Why is it that Harvey Weinstein and other accused celebrities have been cast out by Hollywood, while Allen recently secured a multimillion-dollar distribution deal with Amazon, greenlit by former Amazon Studios executive Roy Price before he was suspended over sexual misconduct allegations?”
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There has been a backlash against Allen in Hollywood, with actors Greta Gerwig and Mira Sorvino expressing regret that they had worked with him.
Call Me by Your Name star Timothee Chalamet, who has a leading role in Allen’s upcoming film A Rainy Day in New York, said he would be donating his full salary from the film to Time’s Up, LGBT Center in New York, and anti-sexual assault organisation RAINN.
Actress Rebecca Hall, who is also in A Rainy Day in New York, has donated her salary from the film to Time’s Up as well.
Alec Baldwin, who has starred in three of the director’s films, became embroiled in the scandal when he backed Allen over the abuse allegations.
Baldwin said criticism against Allen was “unfair and sad to me” and working with him was “one of the privileges of my career”.
Defending Allen on Twitter, Baldwin said he did not intend to “dismiss or ignore such complaints”.
“But accusing people of such crimes should be treated carefully,” Baldwin added.