Moses Farrow Says He Was Abused By Mom Mia Farrow, Sides With Woody
Moses Farrow, the adopted son of Woody Allen, published a new essay denouncing his adopted mom Mia who he says abused him.
“I’m a very private person and not at all interested in public attention,” Moses, 40, writes. “But, given the incredibly inaccurate and misleading attacks on my father, Woody Allen, I feel that I can no longer stay silent as he continues to be condemned for a crime he did not commit.”
Moses was adopted from South Korea by Mia Farrow when he was 2 years old and was then co-adopted by Allen in 1992. “It pains me to recall instances in which I witnessed siblings, some blind or physically disabled, dragged down a flight of stairs to be thrown into a bedroom or a closet, then having the door locked from the outside,” he wrote of Mia. “She even shut my brother Thaddeus, paraplegic from polio, in an outdoor shed overnight as punishment for a minor transgression.”
Moses also alleges in the article that his sister Tam, who reportedly passed away at age 21 from heart failure, actually committed suicide by overdosing on pills. Mia’s son Thaddeus committed suicide in 2016 and her daughter Lark died from AIDS-related causes in 2008.
He also comes after Dylan Farrow, who says she was molested by Woody in the attic — where there was a looping toy train. “It’s a precise and compelling narrative, but there’s a major problem: there was no electric train set in that attic. There was, in fact, no way for kids to play up there, even if we had wanted to. It was an unfinished crawl space …”
He also claims to have witnessed Mia coaching Dylan on what to say at the time. “Frightened and beaten down, I, too, played my part. I even wrote a letter condemning Woody, saying that he had done something horrible and unforgivable, and had broken my dreams,” Moses writes. “I even read the letter for the news media that were now regularly gathered at the end of our driveway, knowing that doing so would earn my mother’s approval. That public denouncement of my father remains the biggest regret of my life.”