Woody Allen speaks out against Child Molestation charges

[Xernicus]

Woody Allen, a 78 year old director, playwright, actor, scriptwriter and then some, has released a statement in the New York Times regarding the (proven) false accusations that he molested his own daughter, a case that has encumbered his life, and rubbed off on his works since the trial began. Partial article pasted below.

TWENTY-ONE years ago, when I first heard Mia Farrow had accused me of child molestation, I found the idea so ludicrous I didn’t give it a second thought. We were involved in a terribly acrimonious breakup, with great enmity between us and a custody battle slowly gathering energy. The self-serving transparency of her malevolence seemed so obvious I didn’t even hire a lawyer to defend myself. It was my show business attorney who told me she was bringing the accusation to the police and I would need a criminal lawyer.

I naïvely thought the accusation would be dismissed out of hand because of course, I hadn’t molested Dylan and any rational person would see the ploy for what it was. Common sense would prevail. After all, I was a 56-year-old man who had never before (or after) been accused of child molestation. I had been going out with Mia for 12 years and never in that time did she ever suggest to me anything resembling misconduct. Now, suddenly, when I had driven up to her house in Connecticut one afternoon to visit the kids for a few hours, when I would be on my raging adversary’s home turf, with half a dozen people present, when I was in the blissful early stages of a happy new relationship with the woman I’d go on to marry — that I would pick this moment in time to embark on a career as a child molester should seem to the most skeptical mind highly unlikely. The sheer illogic of such a crazy scenario seemed to me dispositive.

Notwithstanding, Mia insisted that I had abused Dylan and took her immediately to a doctor to be examined. Dylan told the doctor she had not been molested. Mia then took Dylan out for ice cream, and when she came back with her the child had changed her story. The police began their investigation; a possible indictment hung in the balance. I very willingly took a lie-detector test and of course passed because I had nothing to hide. I asked Mia to take one and she wouldn’t. Last week a woman named Stacey Nelkin, whom I had dated many years ago, came forward to the press to tell them that when Mia and I first had our custody battle 21 years ago, Mia had wanted her to testify that she had been underage when I was dating her, despite the fact this was untrue. Stacey refused. I include this anecdote so we all know what kind of character we are dealing with here. One can imagine in learning this why she wouldn’t take a lie-detector test.

Link to the article to read more:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/opinion/sunday/woody-allen-speaks-out.html?smid=fb-nytimes&WT.z_sma=OP_WAS_20140209

 

[WeetBix KiD]

He is suss....

even if he is innocent, my mother instinct kicks in and I wouldn't leave my kids alone in a room with him

how can you find your adopted (wifes adopted daughter, buts irrelevant as she was still a child when they married) attrative as a teenager, and then marry? To me, its just all a bit too suss...

[JoeDirt]

There was an excellent thread on reddit about this explaining how this whole story is bs and Mia Farrow has some resentment towards him for many many years. Dylan had talked to 2 or 3 specialists back in the 90's and all agree that no abuse had taken place.

[SiD]

Wonder if this is going to be Michael Jackson all over again.