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PEOPLE & ARTS Friday 19 January 2018
In TV interview, Farrow describes alleged Allen assault

By JAKE COYLE I was sexually assaulted,”
AP Film Writer Farrow said.
NEW YORK (AP) — In her first Allen was investigated but
televised interview, Dylan wasn’t charged, and he
Farrow described in de- has long denied inappro-
tail Woody Allen’s alleged priately touching Farrow.
sexual assault of her, and In a statement Thursday,
called actors who work in Allen reiterated his denial
his films “complicit” in per- and said “the Farrow fam-
petuating a “culture of ily is cynically using the op-
silence.” Farrow, the ad- portunity afforded by the
opted daughter of Allen Time’s Up movement to
and Mia Farrow, appeared repeat this discredited al-
in a taped interview Thurs- legation.”
day on “CBS This Morn- “I never molested my
ing.” Farrow recounted the daughter — as all investi-
1992 incident, when she gations concluded a quar-
was 7 years old, in which ter of a century ago,” Allen
she said Allen molested said.
her in her mother’s Con- After a seven-month inves- This image released by CBS shows Dylan Farrow, left, adopted daughter of Mia Farrow and Woody
necticut home. “With so tigation, a team of child- Allen, during an interview airing Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018, on “CBS This Morning.”
much silence being broken abuse specialists at Yale- Associated Press
by so many brave people New Haven Hospital con- said he witnessed their stand is how this crazy story Allen have distanced them-
against so many high-pro- cluded Dylan was not been mother coaching Dylan. “It of me being brainwashed selves from the 82-year-old
file people, I felt it was im- molested. The doctor lead- seems to have worked — and coached is more be- filmmaker.
portant to add my story to ing the investigation, John and, sadly, I’m sure Dylan lievable than what I’m say- Timothee Chalamet on
theirs because it’s some- M. Leventhal, later said in truly believes what she ing about being sexually Tuesday said he will donate
thing I’ve struggled with for a sworn statement that he says,” said Allen. Farrow’s assaulted by my father,” his salary for an upcoming
a long time,” Farrow said. theorized Dylan either in- younger brother Ronan Far- Farrow said on CBS. Allen film to three charities
“It was very momentous for vented the story or had it row, who has written several Dylan now lives married with fighting sexual harassment
me to see this conversation planted in her mind by her exposes for The New Yorker a 16-month-old daughter in and abuse: Time’s Up, the
finally carried into a public mother. But Connecticut on Harvey Weinstein, has Connecticut. When a clip LGBT Center in New York
setting.” state attorney Frank Maco supported Dylan’s claims. from a 1992 “60 Minutes” and RAINN. The breakout
Farrow, now 32, described says there was “probable Dylan Farrow first spoke interview of Allen denying star of “Call Me By Your
being taken to a crawl cause” to charge Allen publicly about the incident the allegation was played, Name” said he didn’t want
space by Allen. with molesting Dylan and in a 2013 Vanity Fair ar- Farrow began crying. to profit from his work on Al-
“He instructed me to lay that police had drawn up ticle and a 2014 open let- “He’s lying, and he’s been len’s “A Rainy Day in New
down on my stomach and an arrest warrant, but that ter to The New York Times. lying for so long. And it’s York,” which wrapped
play with my brother’s toy he decided not to pursue On CBS, she called Allen’s difficult for me to see him shooting in the fall.
train that was set up,” she the case, in part because it version of events — that and hear his voice,” Farrow Rebecca Hall (“A Rainy Day
said. “And he sat behind would traumatize Dylan. a distraught Mia Farrow said. in New York,” ‘’Vicky Cristi-
me in the doorway, and as Allen noted that Dylan’s coached her story — “cra- In recent days, several ac- na Barcelona”), Mira Sorvi-
I played with the toy train, older brother Moses has zy.” “What I don’t under- tors who have worked with no (“Mighty Aphrodite”),q

Country stars from Vegas festival to perform Grammy tribute

By KRISTIN M. HALL 22 people were killed in a be taken in other shows. I
Associated Press bombing outside an Ariana savored it. I remember ev-
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Grande concert in Man- erything about it.” Church,
Three performers at last chester, England, in May. who wrote a song called
year’s Route 91 Harvest Church headlined the first “Why Not Me” immediately
Festival where a gunman night of the festival, which after the shooting, said he
opened fire on fans will per- was the last night of his knew some of the victims
form a tribute at this year’s tour. A gunman perched in because they were mem-
Grammy Awards to honor a window of a hotel-casino bers of his tightknit fan club
victims killed at live music overlooking the outdoor and said he appreciates
events this past year. festival opened fire on the that the Grammy produc-
Eric Church, Maren Morris crowd during the final night ers wanted to reserve time
and Brothers Osborne, who of the festival as Jason Al- in the show to remember
performed at the three- dean was performing, kill- those music fans who had
day country festival prior to ing 58 people and injuring been lost. “Mass shootings,
the mass shooting last Oc- hundreds more. they happen every year,
tober, will collaborate on “In all honesty, there’s not a unfortunately,” Church
a special performance at day that goes by since that said. “But this year was a In this Nov. 24, 2016, file photo, Country music singer Eric Church
the 60th annual Grammy day that I have not thought little bit unique in that you performs at halftime during an NFL football game between the
Awards, airing live on CBS of it and thought of the had two happen at music Washington Redskins and Dallas Cowboys in Arlington, Texas.
from New York on Jan. 28. people and the victims,” events and one of those Associated Press
The shooting in Las Vegas Church told The Associated was the largest mass shoot- performance, performed attacks have left them
was the deadliest mass Press. “That being our last ing in U.S. history. It’s been a the night before the shoot- scared to go to shows, and
shooting in U.S. modern his- show of the year, I took it in tragic year.” Morris, a nomi- ing. She said she’s heard said that it has affected art-
tory. It came in a year when differently than I have may- nee for best country solo directly from fans that the ists as well.q