Dylan Farrow Responds to Woody Allen: 'Distortions and Outright Lies'

[Waiting For Everyman]

79. This is old news.

The only thing new is Woody Allen's film award recently. This controversy is nothing more than an attempt to detract from that. Thus, regardless of the past, Dylan is the abuser now.

I never was a Woody Allen fan, I didn't like most of his films long before this controversy came up the first time, but regardless of what he did or didn't do, I don't think Dylan, Mia, and Ronan are any better.

This current episode is total bullshit and a manipulation of public opinion. The timing of it tells the whole story and shows it up for exactly what it is.

If Dylan had a case it would've been won in court at the time. She does not have a case. As far as the court of public opinion is concerned, it has all been heard before in the past. This is nothing but a rehash. This is Dylan's problem, not mine or any of the public's, and the behavior of her and her faction recently hasn't made me any more sympathetic to her. It also hasn't made me think any worse of Woody Allen than I did before, which is clearly what she was going for in doing this -- turning his public against him. Nice. That's hardly what someone in the mindset of a hurt little girl victim would do, that's a deliberately destructive action out of hate, and yes, hate will sometimes dare to falsely accuse. What we're being asked to just take on faith is that her hate comes from an an allowable reason, and it also comes off as very similar to her mother's behavior and m.o. in the past -- also looking to attack the public's opinion about him... frankly, I wouldn't be shocked if this whole thing largely originated in the first place out of Mia's jealousy of WA's career success.

This won't cause me to go see a Woody Allen film that I wouldn't have seen before; it also won't keep me from seeing a Woody Allen film that I would've seen before. There is no other involvement I have in this, other than whether I see or don't see his films, same as the rest of the public. So to me, this whole effort by Dylan was a fail. His achievements in film are a fact, and that isn't going to be erased by her no matter what whe says. And that is as it should be.

She is attempting to assassinate his lifelong work, and that is just as bad as what she's accusing him of.