In an open letter published online by The New York Times, Woody Allen is insisting he did not molest his adoptive daughter Dylan Farrow and says his ex-Partner Mia Farrow is at fault for Dylan's actions, The New York Times reported.
The 78-year-old filmmaker says Dylan Farrow's open letter published last week by the Times includes "creative flourishes that seem to have magically appeared during our 21-year estrangement."
"Of course, I did not molest Dylan," Allen wrote in the open letter. "I loved her and hope one day she will grasp how she has been cheated out of having a loving father and exploited by a mother more interested in her own festering anger than her daughter's well-being,"
"Now it's 21 years later and Dylan has come forward with the accusations that the Yale experts investigated and found false," Allen said, referring to being investigated for the alleged molestation, but was never charged, the Times reported.
A team of child abuse specialists from the Yale-New Haven Hospital, brought in to the case by prosecutors and police, concluded that Dylan Farrow had not been molested, according to the Times.
"I still loved (Dylan) deeply, and felt guilty that by falling in love with Soon-Yi I had put her in the position of being used as a pawn for revenge," Allen said, adding that he feared his affair his with Soon-Yi Previn, Farrow's adopted daughter would conflict with Dylan's accusations, the Times reported.
According to the letter, the "Annie Hall" and "Blue Jasmine" director claims that 7-year-old Dylan Farrow was coached by Mia Farrow in accusing him of sexual abuse, according to the Times.
"Not that I doubt Dylan hasn't come to believe she's been molested, but if from the age of 7 a vulnerable child is taught by a strong mother to hate her father because he is a monster who abused her, is it so inconceivable that after many years of this indoctrination the image of me Mia wanted to establish had taken root?" Allen writes in the letter.
In her letter last week, Dylan Farrow said that in 1992 at the family's Connecticut home, Allen led her to a "dim, closet-like attic" and "then he sexually assaulted me," without specifying what he did, according to the Times.
Allen finished his open letter by saying: "this will be my final word on this entire matter and no one will be responding on my behalf to any further comments on it by any party. "Enough people have been hurt," the Times reported.
