“It makes my blood boil quite honestly,” she told us at the Time 100 Gala at Lincoln Center. “Every time I see a new celebrity agreeing to work with him, I feel like my message didn't get across and I failed and it's very hard to not succumb to that.”
In 2014, Farrow — now 30, married and pregnant — wrote an open letter to the New York Times claiming her famous father molested her in a “dim, closet-like attic” in their family home when she was 7 years old. To this day, she’s surprised the letter got as much attention as it did — even if it didn’t seem to impact Allen’s career.
“In retrospect I feel like a different person wrote that essay, I had no idea the stir it would cause obviously,” Farrow said. “I spent so long as a victim of sexual abuse and hiding from that and avoiding any sort of contact with that whole arena of people out there ... that essay plunged me headfirst into a very, very deep rabbit hole of rape culture and a lot of online trolling that I could not have been prepared for.”
Farrow had remained publicly quiet about her alleged experience prior to writing the Times piece.
“Maybe I could have been more prepared for if I was a public persona but I'm very private so it was that whole experience,” she told us.
Shortly after Farrow’s missive was published, Allen responded with an open letter of his own in the Times, calling the accusation “ludicrous” and pointing out that prosecutors who initially investigated the molestation claim made by Dylan’s mother Mia Farrow in 1993, filed no charges against him.
Allen and Mia acrimoniously split in 1992 after he admitted to being romantically involved with her adopted daughter, Soon-Yi Previn.
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