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In reply to the discussion: What's your favorite Woody Allen movie? [View all]pnwmom
(110,318 posts)Did you read the whole essay or was it too sickening? It certainly is hard to read, but I have no reason to not believe her. The judge believed her when she was 7 and that's when Woody lost visitation.
"After a custody hearing denied my father visitation rights, my mother declined to pursue criminal charges, despite findings of probable cause by the State of Connecticut due to, in the words of the prosecutor, the fragility of the 'child victim.' Woody Allen was never convicted of any crime. That he got away with what he did to me haunted me as I grew up. I was stricken with guilt that I had allowed him to be near other little girls. I was terrified of being touched by men. I developed an eating disorder. I began cutting myself. That torment was made worse by Hollywood. All but a precious few (my heroes) turned a blind eye. Most found it easier to accept the ambiguity, to say, 'who can say what happened,' to pretend that nothing was wrong. Actors praised him at awards shows. Networks put him on TV. Critics put him in magazines. Each time I saw my abusers face on a poster, on a t-shirt, on television I could only hide my panic until I found a place to be alone and fall apart."