CHOCK WOODY ALLEN: Dylan Farrow scrive una lettera al NYTimes

Dylan Farrow, la figlia adottiva del regista newyorkese, torna ad accusare il padre di abusi sessuali quando lei era soltanto una bambina. Per la prima volta decide di parlarne direttamente, scrivendo una lettera aperta al New York Times, spinta a parlare dall'ennesimo riconoscimento tributato da Hollywood al grande regista.

Questa la lettera nelle sue parti più importanti:

Dylan Farrow

“Quando avevo sette anni, Woody Allen mi ha preso per mano e portato in un piccolo solaio poco illuminato al secondo piano di casa nostra. Mi ha detto di sdraiarmi sulla pancia e di giocare con il treno elettrico di mio fratello. Poi mi ha aggredito sessualmente, dicendomi che ero una brava ragazza e promettendo di portarmi a Parigi e fare di me una grande star del cinema.
Con rare e preziose eccezioni, il mondo ha chiuso gli occhi. La maggior parte delle persone ritenevano più facile accettare l’ambiguità, dire ‘chissà’ cosa è davvero accaduto, di pretendere che non ci sia stato niente di male. Ogni volta che vedevo su un poster, o su una t-shirt, o alla televisione il viso della persona che ha abusato di me, non avevo altra scelta che dissimulare il panico e trovare un posto per potermi isolare e crollare.
Da ciò che mi ricordo, mio padre ha fatto cose che non mi piacevano. Succedeva così spesso, era talmente una routine così abilmente nascosta da una madre che avrebbe dovuto proteggermi, che sono arrivata a pensare che fosse normale”.

Il New York Times ha riferito che Woody Allen non ha voluto commentare l’intervista della figlia adottiva e neanche Mia Farrow.

Woody Allen

La storia purtroppo non è nuova: Mia Farrow, ex moglie del cineasta americano, lo denunciò nel 1992 dopo la loro separazione.  La polizia del Connecticut avviò un'inchiesta, chuisa poi senza alcuna incriminazione per Woody Allen.
Nessuno sa al momento quale sia la verità, certo non è la prima volta che Allen fa parlare di sé:  il 22 dicembre 1997 il regista si sposò infatti con la figlia adottiva, Soon-Yi Previn, attirando su di sé i commenti scioccati di tutto il mondo.

Di seguito la lettera integrale di Dylan Farrow:

"What’s your favorite Woody Allen movie? Before you answer, you should know: when I was seven years old, Woody Allen took me by the hand and led me into a dim, closet-like attic on the second floor of our house. He told me to lay on my stomach and play with my brother’s electric train set. Then he sexually assaulted me. He talked to me while he did it, whispering that I was a good girl, that this was our secret, promising that we’d go to Paris and I’d be a star in his movies. I remember staring at that toy train, focusing on it as it traveled in its circle around the attic. To this day, I find it difficult to look at toy trains.
For as long as I could remember, my father had been doing things to me that I didn’t like. I didn’t like how often he would take me away from my mom, siblings and friends to be alone with him. I didn’t like it when he would stick his thumb in my mouth. I didn’t like it when I had to get in bed with him under the sheets when he was in his underwear. I didn’t like it when he would place his head in my naked lap and breathe in and breathe out. I would hide under beds or lock myself in the bathroom to avoid these encounters, but he always found me. These things happened so often, so routinely, so skillfully hidden from a mother that would have protected me had she known, that I thought it was normal. I thought this was how fathers doted on their daughters. But what he did to me in the attic felt different. I couldn’t keep the secret anymore.
When I asked my mother if her dad did to her what Woody Allen did to me, I honestly did not know the answer. I also didn’t know the firestorm it would trigger. I didn’t know that my father would use his sexual relationship with my sister to cover up the abuse he inflicted on me. I didn’t know that he would accuse my mother of planting the abuse in my head and call her a liar for defending me. I didn’t know that I would be made to recount my story over and over again, to doctor after doctor, pushed to see if I’d admit I was lying as part of a legal battle I couldn’t possibly understand. At one point, my mother sat me down and told me that I wouldn’t be in trouble if I was lying – that I could take it all back. I couldn’t. It was all true. But sexual abuse claims against the powerful stall more easily. There were experts willing to attack my credibility. There were doctors willing to gaslight an abused child.
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 abuser’s 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.
Last week, Woody Allen was nominated for his latest Oscar. But this time, I refuse to fall apart. For so long, Woody Allen’s acceptance silenced me. It felt like a personal rebuke, like the awards and accolades were a way to tell me to shut up and go away. But the survivors of sexual abuse who have reached out to me – to support me and to share their fears of coming forward, of being called a liar, of being told their memories aren’t their memories – have given me a reason to not be silent, if only so others know that they don’t have to be silent either.
Today, I consider myself lucky. I am happily married. I have the support of my amazing brothers and sisters. I have a mother who found within herself a well of fortitude that saved us from the chaos a predator brought into our home.
But others are still scared, vulnerable, and struggling for the courage to tell the truth. The message that Hollywood sends matters for them.
What if it had been your child, Cate Blanchett? Louis CK? Alec Baldwin? What if it had been you, Emma Stone? Or you, Scarlett Johansson? You knew me when I was a little girl, Diane Keaton. Have you forgotten me?
Woody Allen is a living testament to the way our society fails the survivors of sexual assault and abuse.
So imagine your seven-year-old daughter being led into an attic by Woody Allen. Imagine she spends a lifetime stricken with nausea at the mention of his name. Imagine a world that celebrates her tormenter.
Are you imagining that? Now, what’s your favorite Woody Allen movie?"