Dylan Farrow spoke out in graphic detail on Thursday about a sexual assault she said she suffered at the hands of her adopted father, Woody Allen, in 1992 when she was 7.
Farrow, the daughter of actress Mia Farrow, said that the famous filmmaker sexually molested her at her home in Connecticut, while she played with her brother’s toy train set.
“I was taken to a small attic crawl space in my mother’s country house in Connecticut by my father. He instructed me to lay down on my stomach and play with my brother’s toy train,” she told Gayle King on Thursday’s “CBS This Morning.” “He touched my labia and my vulva with his finger.”
She added, “My first impulse was I had done something wrong.”
It’s far from the first time Farrow, now 32, has made the accusation against Allen, who has repeatedly denied her claims and was never charged with a crime after an investigation at the time.
But as the MeToo movement has taken off, Farrow gave her first televised interview to press the matter anew.
At one point during the interview, Farrow broke down as King played an old video of Allen denying the charges.
“He’s lying and he’s been lying for so long and it is difficult for me to see him and to hear his voice. I’m sorry,” said Farrow after watching the footage of her father. “He often asked me to get into bed with him often when he had only his underwear on.”
“We do know what happened in the attic that day,” she added. “I just told you.”
On Thursday, Allen again denied the accusations. “Dylan’s older brother Moses has said that he witnessed their mother … relentlessly coaching Dylan, trying to drum into her that her father was a dangerous sexual predator,” he said in a statement provided to TheWrap. “It seems to have worked — and, sadly, I’m sure Dylan truly believes what she says.
“Even though the Farrow family is cynically using the opportunity afforded by the Time’s Up movement to repeat this discredited allegation, that doesn’t make it any more true today than it was in the past,” he added. “I never molested my daughter — as all investigations concluded a quarter of a century ago.”
Watch Farrow’s interview above.