Dylan Farrow releases disturbing unseen footage in Allen v. Farrow

Woody Allen’s adopted daughter posted a gut-wrenching note on Twitter ahead of the latest, disturbing episode of the Allen v. Farrow doco.

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The second episode of the explosive Woody Allen documentary aired yesterday with disturbing never-before-seen footage.

Allen’s adopted daughter Dylan Farrow, now 35, made the “terrifying” decision to hand over the home video to HBO for the doco Allen v. Farrow, a four-part series which airs Mondays on Foxtel.

Recorded by her adoptive mother Mia Farrow in 1992, the video shows a then seven-year-old Dylan claiming that the legendary filmmaker, now 85, “touched (my) privates” in an alleged incident in their attic at Mia Farrow’s Connecticut home. Allen has denied all allegations of abuse.

“And then he was breathing on my leg,” a young Dylan is heard saying in the footage. “And then, he squeezed me too hard that I couldn’t breathe.”

A young Dylan Farrow is seen in the 1992 video alleging Woody Allen touched her. Picture: Foxtel

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Elsewhere in the clip, Mia, who split from Allen in 1992, can be heard asking: “Do you want to tell me what things Daddy said in the attic when you were in the attic?”

Dylan then says Allen told her: “Do not move, I have to do this.”

“But I wiggled my bum to see what he was doing,” she is heard saying in the footage. “He said, ‘Don’t move, I have to do this. If you stay still we can go to Paris.’”

Dylan then tells her mother, “I didn’t want him to do it, Mama. I didn’t like it … I don’t want to talk about it.”

Prior to the episode airing, Dylan took to Twitter with a lengthy note revealing the decision to air the footage was “absolutely terrifying for me” as she herself has “resisted ever watching it until now”.

“It had long been stored away in a closet. Scared. Buried,” she wrote.

“My fear in letting this tape come to light is that I am putting Little Dylan in the court of public opinion.

“But I decided to let them share it in hopes that Little Dylan’s voice might now help others suffering in silence feel heard, understood and less alone.”

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Dylan posted a lengthy note on Twitter ahead of the episode airing.

Dylan said she was scared to share the video.

After Mia shot the video in 1992, she took Dylan to a paediatrician to make a record of her claims and the doctor informed The Connecticut State Police.

Child welfare services and police began investigating the alleged abuse, but Dylan was deemed an unreliable witness by a psychological report, despite prosecutors finding “probable” cause to arrest Allen for sexual assault of a minor.

No charges were ever brought against Allen, who has vehemently denied sexually assaulting his adoptive daughter and claims Mia coerced Dylan into fabricating the allegations because she was jealous of his relationship with his wife, Soon-Yi, who was Mia’s adoptive daughter with another man.

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Mia Farrow and Dylan Farrow. Picture: Neilson Barnard/Getty/AFP

“Woody and Soon-Yi were approached less than two months ago and given only a matter of days ‘to respond’. Of course, they declined to do so.

“As has been known for decades, these allegations are categorically false. Multiple agencies investigated them at the time and found that, whatever Dylan Farrow may have been led to believe, absolutely no abuse had ever taken place.”

Dylan Farrow features in the documentary. Picture: Foxtel

In her lengthy note on Twitter yesterday, Dylan said she had repressed the memories of “Little Dylan” for decades as a coping mechanism.

“So part of my goal in allowing her now to speak is also to try and find some healing for me and my childhood self.

“Ever since news of her (Little Dylan’s) abuse was inadvertently made public, I, my siblings and my mother have all been subjected to an endless barrage of vitriolic slander and baseless rebuke; derision so painful that I separated myself from her in self-defence.

“I hope this tape helps us all find ways to allow painful secrets to come safely out of their closets so we can all head and move forward in strength and peace.”

Allen v. Farrow airs express from the US Mondays at 1pm AEDT