Where we go one, we go all.
I've stopped believing in coincidences.
The media is just lying to you.
There is a global impact.
They know how crazy it sounds.
We're fighting a war against evil.
Dangerous ideas. That's a scary idea.
There's a tipping point for everybody.
I didn't know the doctor had to report this.
I went just to be sure she was all right,
and she's not all right, Woody!
I received a complaint
about alleged sexual abuse on one Woody Allen.
Woody gave a press conference,
and our jaws dropped.
He's turned it all back and focused on his relationship
with Soon-Yi.
This is a woman scorned.
This is a unhinged woman.
That's Woody's narrative. He's trying to distract.
You brought charges against me as an unfit mother.
And I'm gonna make them stick.
There was no sense that the motivation
was his deep love for these children.
Every little idiosyncrasy was used against me.
Everybody wanted to know
how this was going to end.
I was confident there was probable cause,
but this case hinged on the testimony
of a seven-year-old girl.
At this time, I'd like to read a written decision.
This decision addresses certain sexual assault 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 then 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 costar
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.
Ms. Farrow's only concern has been exclusively
the protection of her children.
I met with Dylan Farrow
in early September of 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-what-what, about Daddy Woody."
Nothing. 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.
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.
-Here? -Yes.
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 police.
I want to send this message to my little girl.
Don't worry. The dark forces will not prevail.
After the whole custody trial...
my mom stopped having to go to court all the time,
and we moved away from the city.
-Woo!
That was great!
-It was? -Yes!
-Hey, come and do your handstand! -Wait, Mama,
-I want you to see something. -Okay.
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 just, you know, kept, kept his secret that
I could've spared my mom all this grief
and my brothers and sisters, myself.
I mean,
none of my older siblings were ever the same.
How 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 just kinda
get through with our lives.
Kids! Fletcher is leaving for college!
Come say good-bye!
We were a tight family unit,
and, um...
uh...
that was much less so the case after this.
People went into survival mode.
It was just a really difficult time for everybody.
Especially Dylan.
Well, Santa didn't forget you, did he?
-Nope! -We used to have one of these.
When she was growing up, she was sullen
and anxiety-riddled, like, riddled with anxiety.
I mean, 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 I didn't feel the right to ask
or I didn't think it was my place, so...
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.
You know, they all went through their own gauntlet
of emotions over this.
Mia and children: Is she 7? Is she 8?
Is she 9? Is she 10?
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.
You know, I was hiding a part of myself that...
um, 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 just 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 gonna want this."
And that was terrifying.
So I broke up with him.
And it was a relationship I wanted.
- Yes. -Breaking up with a certain person?
-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. -Aw.
What made you do it?
I just needed more space, more time.
So what's the next plan?
What are your priorities?
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Woody Allen.
-Thank you.
Could I 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?
I mean, did it make you less popular?
Did it have an effect on your work? Did it affect your mood?
No, it was an interesting thing. Um...
I had always been unpopular.
-And...
when I was going through public, uh...
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 cockroach
-and this proves it."
Those people that like me continue to like me.
You know, 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.
Let them carry on.
I'm not gonna 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.
-Yes, you're 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.
-Mm-hmm. I did, um, but... -Yes.
I never brought them home because...
I just...
didn't wanna risk anybody
falling for one of my beautiful children or grandchildren.
If I couldn't trust Woody after 12 years,
how would I...
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.
Want the box open, honey?
Wow, 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, you know, 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 was not true.
Nobody really wanted to hire me except in other countries.
I think slightly this way, yeah.
I got offered movies
in Ireland and in France.
So I took every job I could.
Woody told me I would never work again in this country.
I didn't know-- Yeah. 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 afflicted with polio as a child.
And then, they made me an ambassador,
and then I said I wanna 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
and 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 Theater at Hollywood and Highland...
Welcome to the 74th Annual Academy Awards.
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. -Right.
-You usually get a really good movie at the end of it. -Yeah.
-He has a mystique to him, you know? -Right.
And actors love him because he trusts them.
-I'm in debt
to my loyal friend
and, uh, remarkable artist, Woody Allen.
Thank you for having written over all these years
some of the greatest characters for women.
For any actor, it's always an extraordinary experience
to have the chance to work those dialogues.
I feel very lucky to be sitting on this couch
with, with a, a proven genius.
We have this idea of the genius,
the artist, the doer, the person who's making things happen
and they're controlling the narrative,
and we wanna align with that and we wanna believe in it.
We wanna identify with these characters.
We spend our lives listening to their side of the story.
We wanna be next to power. We wanna 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, uh,
informed our values at all,
we're not gonna wanna believe it.
I think so much of this is about our willingness
to not know the things 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, no, 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 two hours ago, Michael Jackson was arrested
on child molestation charges.
I think it's just all fabricated. It's lies.
It makes me cross, makes me 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 unlikable.
Bill Cosby was my boyhood mentor.
-There was no one bigger. -Mm-hmm.
Over a dozen women have come forward,
alleging that they've been raped by the legendary comic.
So watching this play out over the last few years,
-for a lot of folks, it's very, very difficult. -Mm-hmm.
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 raped a 13-year-old.
He didn't rape a 13-year-old.
-It was statutory rape, alright? -Alright.
Well so, why do you side with him?
Because I-- his version sounds more likely.
She wasn't unschooled in sexual matters.
She was consenting and willing.
So then, you have sex against your will.
-This is not consensual. -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.
But what's the position now
with regard to, to your children?
I'm still-- I still don't
-see my daughter. I... -Oh.
I left her. She threw her arms around me,
uh, and gave me a list of presents to,
to bring back to her the next day I was gonna see her,
which was two days later,
and she was 7 years old then.
And we were, you know, close, and she was crazy about me,
and I was crazy about her. Am, still, of course.
And I have not been able to see her.
Luna! See this?
-Go get it! -She going for it?
-Nope.
These dogs don't hunt.
She used to.
She used to be more interested in toys,
but now you're older and wiser.
When we first met, we were both at like
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.
I put this ultra,
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 smokin' 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. Oh my.
-Um... -It's like the first and last time
I've ever flirted with someone.
Yeah, but you knocked it out of the park. That's a win.
Yeah, it just, I felt...
really, um, connected to him really quickly.
I had never connected with anyone like that before.
At first, when we first started dating and we first started,
you know, going into the natural intimacies of dating,
I had no idea about, uh,
about her past in that way.
It didn't really come up until,
one day, um,
we were just having some fun,
and suddenly,
uh, 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.
And a lot of it was based on actually
her lying down on her stomach
because it's the same position she was in in the attic.
Yeah.
I didn't think of myself as an incest survivor.
Um...
I...
you know, I, I heard about...
you know, like, rape 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 really 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, um.
I just, I mean...
I'm like shaking, talking about this.
Um...
Wow, that was weird. I got like...
shaky for a second.
Yeah, I just need like a second.
My jaw is shaking. I'm sorry.
I don't know. I don't know, I'm just...
-I think it's just
-a physical reaction to the whole thing. -My jaw is chattering.
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 wanna 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 in the media,
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 just clearing 20 years out,"
or whatever it was at that point.
"For God's sake, just leave it behind."
He asked me, point blank for the first time,
he said, "What, what happened to you?"
And he was obviously very, um,
he was very sensitive about it. He's like,
"You don't have to tell me if you don't want to."
But, um, he, he asked me and...
and so I shared it with him.
The whole-- everything.
And, um...
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 shit. I've been turning away
from a real miscarriage of justice here.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, Diane Keaton.
Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you.
Well, I think it's safe to say that
Woody Allen is an anomaly.
He's made 74 movies in 48 years.
He's directed them, 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,
"I'm so sorry. 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, um...
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 gonna turn away from this.
And so, I tweeted about it
in a much more direct way than I had before.
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...
wow, somebody's-- 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, you know, like, "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 "LA 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 Kristof.
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, and just devastating,
and I thought it should have an outlet.
There were some raised eyebrows at the "Times."
You know, is it really appropriate for a columnist
to use his blog to publish something that the "Times"
itself does not wanna 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 lead 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 tormentor.
Now, what's your favorite Woody Allen movie?
I had gone for two decades feeling like I was alone in this.
And 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, you know, talked about what happened to them.
I think the gift that they didn't realize
they were giving me was that,
you know, I was-- 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, you know, 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, so much respect
for Dylan, of who she is,
what she had to do, and how she did it.
To see Dylan, you know, claim herself,
her whole self, um...
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, I know he's gonna attack me.
'Cause he can't really, you know, how can he...
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
"by a strong mother to hate her father,
the image of me Mia wanted to establish had taken root."
It was very difficult
to have come forward with something so...
deeply personal.
And being 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 is--
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 7 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--
-Physically harmed by? -By Mia. By Mia.
Uh, he, 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 down stairs.
I never saw anybody hit or locked in closets.
I had no idea why he would do this.
He's suddenly speaking ill of my family and my mom.
There was the typical, you know, grounding, yelling,
when we did something wrong, but nothing abusive.
No.
The things he accuses her of are just ludicrous.
I absolutely would have remembered if she locked us in barns
and, you know, 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.
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 at the time, by his own memory,
he says it couldn't have happened because on that day,
they were all in public rooms, and said there's simply no way
it could've happened.
New to the story was a fresh, creative touch,
something that never came up a single time
during all the months of investigation
in any of Dylan's numerous interviews.
That is, Dylan suddenly claiming she was molested
while she stared at the electric trains in the attic
going round and round.
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 principled stand.
It's controversial. You accepted an award recently
-for Woody Allen. -Uh-huh.
-Did you have any trepidations? -No!
-None whatsoever? -Of course not.
I mean, you have to look at my life this way.
I mean, 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.
On Sunday, Alec Baldwin continued to defend
embattled director 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 assault allegation against filmmakers
Woody Allen and Roman Polanski.
People make mistakes in lives and, and, uh...
-you know. -Gotta forgive.
Well, it's, I--
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, 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 it 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.
-So you believe she believes it because this idea was-- -I believe that.
The fact 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.
When you have Leslee Dart on your payroll,
that is someone who can say
you better print this, or I'm gonna 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 himself wrote an article
for the "Hollywood Reporter" about his father.
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 of how Hollywood works though, right?
-That these publicists are very powerful. -Yes.
They're 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. -Yes.
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.
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 abuser.
It was way more believable
that a mother can be hysterical and angry and upset
than a father could be an abuser.
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.
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 longterm impact is devastating.
It feels isolating to be a survivor of sexual abuse.
It doesn't go away. It doesn't--
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 assault 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 10 months
and published this chilling "New Yorker" story
about alleged assaults and rapes.
We are in this moment where women are coming forward
-one after another, in industry after industry, -Yeah.
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 MeToo 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.
I wish that I had testified or that I had...
just been put up there anyway.
And 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-- under the pressure.
I, to this day, feel like...
I was given an opportunity to be brave,
and I turned it down.
I mean, when I made my decision back in
1993...
uh, 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 always made it known to me
that I had a lot to be very thankful to you for.
That I'd been, you know, 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 is never a chance
that I would do that to you.
Just put you on the stand to 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 abuses I've tried,
as many murder cases as I've tried,
what's the case that's gonna be with me
for the rest of my days?
My decision in this investigation.
I wasn't exactly sure like what I wanted...
to say.
I guess...
I guess I just 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 "LA 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% 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 not all artists are nice people.
Caravaggio murdered somebody.
Charles Dickens was an anti-Semite.
I mean, 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 do we respond? 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 gonna pass that test.
-Bill Cosby. -No, I can't listen to him now.
-No. Oh, you can't? You can't separate it? -I can't separate it. I can't.
-Hmm.
-Well, to me it's-- -'Cause there's love there.
-There's love there. -Yeah, yeah! I know...
When you look back at men
like Picasso putting out a cigarette on a woman's cheek,
it's not like, you know, there was a rising up to
argue that we shouldn't buy Picassos.
If anything, those behaviors burnished their images.
So, you know, there was this...
way in which, for a long time, these really, um,
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?
You know, I think the mistake we women make
is we fall in love with the artist-- Hey! You guys, are you listening?
-Yes, yes. I'm listening. -We fall in love with the artist,
-not the man. -I don't think that's a mistake. How is that a mistake?
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, um,
a 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, you know?
In the process of spending all this time
understanding the mind of someone
who I thought of as abusive,
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 any more 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? -Mm-mmm. 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 regretted it.
He wished he hadn't done it, and he donated his salary.
Several other people followed.
Rebecca Hall and Timothée Chalamet
and Selena Gomez, all of these people started
donating their salaries as well.
When the first messages of support
actually came, I-I-I was kind of shocked.
It was presented to actors that these were people
who it was okay to work with.
Um, but now, of course,
I feel I can just say, you know, I shouldn't have done.
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 two weeks, several celebrities have voiced
their support for Farrow, including Natalie Portman,
who spoke out on "CBS Sunday Morning."
I believe Dylan. I wanna 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 counter-narrative.
The press lumped 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.
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.
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.
This is a calculated move in a media war.
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, you know?
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, you know, 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, oh! I'm shaking!
Thinking, "Oh my god, I hope she doesn't."
'Cause I knew what would come and I'd be so scared.
You know, I was so scared of him.
I know. That shouldn't go with my really strong package
that I'd like to present.
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 worry 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, you know?
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. Yes. -Yeah.
I know my daughter.
Do you want milk or cream?
-You have cream? -No.
-I thought I did,
but I don't.
You know, my mind goes back, like 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?
You know, when I should have,
and I know that I should have now, you know?
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 know, you, you, 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.
"My mom didn't protect me, and my mom was not there for me.
She was not willing to fight for me."
And I, you know,
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...
in my mother's footsteps, I made a photo album.
I kept all my, um, my cards from my baby shower,
um, couple of four-leaf clovers that I found
within a week of each other, um...
Just, I don't know, maybe, 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 like flickers
of little Dylan in her, and...
I get what my mom did for me.
How hard it was.
-Hi! -We came to you...
we, we came here!
You came here, you did.
I'm so glad to see you.
If 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.
Let's go.
You know, honestly, sometimes...
when I watch my husband and my daughter together,
I actually feel a little jealous.
But...
it's, it's bittersweet
because I know I'm paying it forward.