ACTRESS DIANE KEATON HAS COME OUT IN SUPPORT OF WOODY ALLEN
FOLLOWING ACCUSATIONS THAT HE
HAD MOLESTED MIA FARROW'S ADOPTED DAUGHTER.
DYLAN FARROW HAS BEEN MAKING THESE ACCUSATIONS FOR YEARS.
SHE MADE THE ACCUSATIONS AT FIRST WHEN SHE WAS SEVEN YEARS
OLD AND SHE HAS MAINTAINED THE ACCUSATIONS.
BECAUSE OF THE
ME TOO
MOVEMENT SHE HAS DECIDED TO COME FORWARD AND NOT ONLY SHARE THE
DETAILS AGAIN BUT ALSO CALL OUT TO THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY
FOR REFUSING TO TAKE HER
ALLEGATION SERIOUSLY.
ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING HOW LONG THIS ISSUE HAS BEEN AROUND AND
HOW LITTLE CONSEQUENCES WOODY ALLEN HAS FACED AS A RESULT.
I AM GOING TO TELL YOU WHAT DIANE KEATON HAD TO SAY ABOUT
IT, AND THEN THERE IS THIS INCREDIBLE VIDEO OF DYLAN FARROW
SPEAKING OUT ABOUT WHAT SHE IS ALLEGING.
DIANE KEATON
TALKED ABOUT THIS ON TWITTER, BECAUSE THAT IS WHERE EVERYBODY
SHARES EVERYTHING THESE DAYS, BUT HERE IS WHAT HER TWEETS SAY:
WE ARE GONNA WATCH A PORTION OF THAT INTERVIEW BUT BEFORE WE DO
SO, FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DO NOT KNOW WHAT THE ACCUSATIONS ARE
AGAINST WOODY ALLEN, I WANT TO GO AHEAD AND TOSS TO THE VIDEO
OF DYLAN FARROW TALKING ABOUT WHAT SHE EXPERIENCED.
TAKE A LOOK.
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 THAT WAS SET UP, AND HE SAT
BEHIND ME IN THE DOORWAY AND AS I PLAYED WITH THE TOY TRAIN, I
WAS SEXUALLY ASSAULTED.
AS A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD I WOULD HAVE SAID
HE TOUCHED MY PRIVATE PARTS, WHICH I DID SAY.
AS A 32-YEAR-OLD,
HE TOUCHED MY LABIA AND MY VULVA WITH HIS FINGER.
WHERE WAS YOUR MOTHER?
SHE WENT SHOPPING THAT DAY.
AND THEN AFTER YOU TOLD HER, WHAT HAPPENED?
SHE WAS UPSET.
MY FIRST IMPULSE WAS THAT I HAD DONE SOMETHING WRONG.
SO THIS WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS OF COURSE DENIED BY WOODY
ALLEN AND THERE ARE SO MANY DIFFERENT COMPONENTS OF THE
STORY THAT MAKE IT SEEM MURKY, BUT UPON RESEARCHING IT FURTHER
I'VE GOTTEN EVEN MORE CLARITY ON IT AND NOW OF COURSE, HE HASN'T
BEEN CONVICTED IN A COURT OF LAW, IT IS IMPORTANT TO MENTION
THAT BUT THE STATE ATTORNEY THAT WAS LOOKING INTO POSSIBLY
PROSECUTING WOODY ALLEN AT THE TIME HELD A PRESS CONFERENCE
THAT PEOPLE DO NOT TALK ABOUT EVER, AND THAT PRESS CONFERENCE
WAS INTERESTING TO ME BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT THE PROSECUTOR
BELIEVED THAT THERE WAS PROBABLE CAUSE, ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO
PROSECUTE WOODY ALLEN, BUT ULTIMATELY DECIDED THAT IT
WOULD'VE BEEN TOO TRAUMATIC TO DRAG DYLAN FARROW THROUGH
THAT EXPERIENCE AND SO MIA FARROW AND THE PROSECUTOR
DECIDED NOT TO PRESS CHARGES EVEN THOUGH HE BELIEVED
THAT THERE WAS ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO DO SO.
WOODY ALLEN SAYS THE OPPOSITE OF COURSE.
HE SAYS THAT TWO DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS LOOKED INTO IT 25
YEARS AGO, THE CHILD SEX ABUSE CLINIC OF YALE AND THE NEW
YORK CHILD WELFARE OFFICE AND THEY ENDED UP CLEARING HIM.
I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU CONTEXT ABOUT ONE OF THOSE, BUT THIS ONE
THING
THAT WOODY ALLEN SAYS THAT'S IMPORTANT CONTEXT AND YOU
TAKE IT WITH A GRAIN OF SALT, IT'S WOODY ALLEN DEFENDING
HIMSELF ON THE CHARGES.
HE SAID DYLAN'S OLDER BROTHER MOSES SAYS HE WITNESSED HIS
MOTHER DOING IT, RELENTLESSLY COACHING DYLAN
TRYING TO DRUM INTO HER THAT HER FATHER WAS A DANGEROUS
SEXUAL PREDATOR.
WOODY ALLEN OF COURSE FAMOUSLY DID ENGAGE IN SEXUAL
ACTIVITIES WITH SOON YI AND WOUND UP MARRYING HER AND
THEY ARE STILL TOGETHER SO WHAT WAS THE SITUATION WITH HER?
SHE WAS ACTUALLY ADOPTED BY MIA FARROW FROM SOUTH KOREA AND
WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT HER AGE IS FOR CERTAIN AND WHAT I MEAN
BY THAT IS THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT HER AGE WAS.
THEY DID CERTAIN BONE TESTS TO FIGURE IT OUT AND AT THE
TIME THAT SHE WAS ADOPTED, SHE WAS EITHER 5 TO 7 YEARS OLD.
FROM WHAT WE GATHER, THE ABSOLUTE YOUNGEST THAT SOON YI
COULD'VE BEEN WHEN SHE STARTED HER RELATIONSHIP WITH WOODY
ALLEN WAS ABOUT 17 YEARS OLD.
IT SEEMS AS THOUGH SHE FIT THE AGE OF CONSENT AND THAT WASN'T
AN ISSUE, BUT THERE IS A PATTERN THERE.
OBVIOUSLY HE WAS MUCH OLDER THAN HER.
HE WAS VERY ATTRACTED TO HER WHEN SHE WAS POSSIBLY AS YOUNG
AS 17 YEARS OLD AND SO PEOPLE LOOK AT THAT PATTERN OF BEHAVIOR
AND THINK, OKAY, THAT MIGHT SAY SOMETHING BUT THERE'S ALSO
A BUNCH OF DIFFERENT THINGS THAT I FEEL LIKE PEOPLE ARE MISSING
AND THEY ARE MISSING BECAUSE IT DOES NOT EVER GET TALKED ABOUT.
VANITY FAIR DID A REALLY GREAT PIECE WHERE THEY SUMMARIZED
THINGS THAT WE KNOW FOR SURE.
THESE ARE THINGS THAT ARE NOT SPECULATIVE.
THESE ARE THINGS WE KNOW FOR
CERTAIN AND JUST QUICKLY GOING BACK TO THAT PROSECUTOR,
HERE IS WHAT THE NEW YORK TIMES HAD REPORTED.
THIS IS A NEW YORK TIMES PIECE FROM 1992
AS THIS CASE IS UNFOLDING.
THIS NOTION THAT MIA FARROW IS COACHING HER AND UTILIZING HER
AS A TOOL TO GO AFTER WOODY ALLEN, IT DOESN'T SEEM TO FIT.
LET ME GIVE THE OTHER SIDE FOR A SECOND, AND I HAVE NO IDEA
WHAT HAPPENED.
IT WAS A TERRIBLE DIVORCE PROCEEDING.
NUMBER ONE, IT IS UNDERSTANDABLE.
SOON YI WAS NOT WOODY ALLEN'S DAUGHTER.
IT WAS A CUSTODY BATTLE.
MIA FARROW DESPISED WOODY ALLEN FOR A LOT OF GOOD REASONS,
SOME THAT WE KNOW.
HE DID HOOK UP WITH SOON YI AND THEY DID GET MARRIED WHICH IS
INSANE BECAUSE SHE WAS THE ADOPTED DAUGHTER OF MIA FARROW.
SHE FOUND NAKED PHOTOS OF SOON YI IN WOODY ALLEN'S HOME
AND
THAT IS WHAT TIPPED HER UP OFF TO THE IDEA THAT AN AFFAIR
WAS HAPPENING.
YOU CAN UNDERSTAND PARTLY WHY SHE WOULD BE OUTRAGED ON THAT
ALONE, LET ALONE IF WOODY ALLEN DID WHAT IS CLAIMED BY DYLAN
FARROW.
SHE HAS EVERY RIGHT GO NUCLEAR.
WOODY ALLEN
SAYS, NO.
IT WAS A MESSY DIVORCE, THAT IS WHY SHE
WENT NUCLEAR AND DRUMMED UP THESE CHARGES.
IF SHE HAD DONE THAT AND I AM DEFINITELY NOT SAYING THAT SHE
DID, I HAVE NO IDEA, THERE WOULD BE A REASON NOT TO GO
THROUGH WITH THE TRIAL BECAUSE YOU MIGHT GET EXPOSED SO IT
COULD CUT EITHER WAY.
YOU DON'T WANT TO PUT YOUR CHILD THROUGH THAT, SHE IS SEVEN
YEARS OLD.
IT'S GOING TO BE INCREDIBLY TRAUMATIC BECAUSE IT ACTUALLY
HAPPENED, OR
YOU DON'T WANT TO DO THAT BECAUSE YOU MIGHT GET EXPOSED
AND
THAT IS A TERRIBLE IDEA AND YOU JUST WANT TO MAKE THE CHARGES
AND NOT BACK IT UP.
I DO NOT KNOW.
HERE'S SOME MORE INFORMATION THAT I FOUND ABOUT THE CASE
AND AGAIN, THESE ARE THINGS THAT NEVER GET TALKED ABOUT WHEN
IT COMES TO WOODY ALLEN IN THESE ACCUSATIONS.
APPARENTLY HE HAD BEEN IN THERAPY WITH ALLEGED
INAPPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR TOWARD DYLAN BEFORE THE CASE WAS
PRESENTED TO AUTHORITIES ARE MADE PUBLIC.
HE ALSO REFUSED TO TAKE A POLYGRAPH TEST.
TAKE THAT FOR WHAT IT IS, IT MIGHT NOT MEAN ANYTHING BUT
HE DID REFUSE.
HE ALSO CHANGED HIS STORY IN REGARD TO WHETHER OR NOT HE HAD
BEEN
IN THE ATTIC.
HE SAID HE HAD NOT BEEN IN ATTIC, IT IS ALL
MADE UP AND THEN INVESTIGATORS FOUND HIS HAIR THERE AND THEN HE
CHANGED HIS STORY.
THAT'S PRETTY DAMNING, BUT THERE IS
MORE.
THE INVESTIGATION BY THE YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL IS THE
ONE THAT HE BRINGS UP TIME AND TIME AGAIN.
HE MAKES IT SEEM AS THOUGH THAT IS THE MOST CREDIBLE
INVESTIGATION AND THE RESULTS INDICATED THAT DYLAN FARROW WAS
BEING COACHED, HOWEVER, THE JUDGE THAT WAS ESSENTIALLY
HEARING THIS CASE DID NOT BELIEVE THE CREDIBILITY OF THIS
INVESTIGATION, SAID THAT THERE WERE ISSUES WITH IT AND
ESSENTIALLY THREW IT OUT OF COURT.
DID NOT BELIEVE THE VALIDITY OF IT, AND BY THE WAY, THE
PROSECUTOR THAT I MENTIONED EARLIER ALSO QUESTIONED THE
VALIDITY OF IT AND SO THERE WAS ANOTHER INVESTIGATION DONE
TO SEE WHETHER OR NOT SHE HAD BEEN COACHED AND THAT
INVESTIGATION FOUND THAT NO, SHE IS NOT CHANGING HER STORY.
SHE IS CONSISTENT.
THERE IS NO EVIDENCE TO BELIEVE THAT SHE HAS BEEN COACHED
AND THE JUDGE ULTIMATELY CAME TO THAT CONCLUSION AS WELL.
I AM SAYING ALL OF THAT SAID YOU HAVE THE FULL SCOPE OF
WHAT'S KNOWN IN THE STORY.
WITH THAT SAID, WE DON'T KNOW WITHOUT A SHADOW OF A DOUBT
THAT HE HAD DONE IT OR DIDN'T DO IT.
WE DO NOT KNOW AND NEITHER DOES DIANE KEATON WHICH IS WHY I
THINK THAT SWEET WAS ILL ADVISED.
I GET THAT SHE IS HIS FRIEND AND WANTS TO DEFEND HIM, BUT
WHAT IF HE DID DO IT?
YOU DO NOT KNOW AND SO PUTTING THAT OUT THERE I THINK IS A
RISKY MOVE.
WE MIGHT NEVER KNOW AND THERE'S ONE OTHER PIECE OF
CONTEXT THAT I HAVE TALKED ABOUT ON THE SHOW COUPLE OF TIMES THAT
I KNOW A DECENT NUMBER OF THEIR PESTS AND WHAT THEY SAY IS IT IS
SHOCKING THE NUMBER OF TIMES PEOPLE MAKE UP CHARGES LIKE THIS
IN DIVORCE PROCEEDINGS, SO IF IT WAS NOT FOR THAT, IT IS KIND OF,
I WOULDN'T SAY AN OPEN AND SHUT CASE, THAT'S WAY TOO STRONG, BUT
SOME OF THAT EVIDENCE LOOKS PRETTY DAMNING FOR WOODY
ALLEN SO KNOWING THAT CONTEXT, I GO I DON'T KNOW.
HERE IS WHAT I DO KNOW.
ONE, I AM WITH YOU.
THERE IS NO WAY DIANE KEEP KNOWS EITHER.
ALEC BALDWIN WITH A VIGOROUS DEFENSE OF WOODY ALLEN
RECENTLY AS WELL.
I GET THAT THEIR FRIENDS AND THEY WANT TO STICK UP FOR
THEIR FRIEND AND THAT IS LAUDABLE IN SOME WAYS, BUT
IN A CASE THAT AT A MINIMUM IS THIS CLOSE, PROBABLY BETTER
TO COOL ESPECIALLY IF HE DID DO IT TO A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL
WHICH A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK HE DID.
ON THE OTHER HAND, I AM TIRED OF JUDGING BY OSMOSIS, SO SOME
PEOPLE SAID MERYL STREEP MUST HAVE KNOWN ABOUT HARVEY
WEINSTEIN.
NOW DIANE KEATON IS GUILTY, ALEC BALDWIN IS GUILTY,
EVERYBODY IS GUILTY.
THEY DIDN'T DO ANYTHING.
YOU MIGHT THINK IT IS AN ILL-ADVISED ATTEMPT TO STICK
UP FOR THEIR FRIENDS, BUT THEY DIDN'T TAKE ANY ACTUAL ACTION,
SO THERE'S A LOT OF JUDGMENT GOING ON WITH VERY LITTLE FAX.
THERE'S A LOT OF GUILT BY ASSOCIATION SO I GET YOU ON THAT
AND ALSO A LOT OF SPECULATION IN REGARD TO WHETHER OR NOT PEOPLE
KNEW ABOUT WHAT WAS GOING ON.
IT IS LIKELY THAT MOST PEOPLE DIDN'T KNOW THAT A LOT OF
PEOPLE DIDN'T KNOW THAT SOME PEOPLE MAY BE DID NOTE THAT
WE DON'T KNOW WHEN THAT IS THE THING.
EVERYONE IS SPECULATING EVERYTHING AND WE NEED TO
FOCUS ON WHAT WE KNOW FOR SURE, WHAT THE FACTS ARE AND MAKE
A JUDGMENT CALL BASED ON THAT.
I WANT TO TALK TO THE NEXT VIDEO BECAUSE I PROMISED THAT WE
WOULD TAKE A LISTEN TO A PORTION OF THAT 60
MINUTES INTERVIEW WITH WOODY ALLEN BACK IN THE EARLY 1990S.
WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO SEE IS DYLAN FARROW LISTENING TO IT
AND REACTING TO IT AND I THOUGHT IT WAS COMPELLING AND I
WANTED TO SHARE SO TAKE A LOOK.
I WANTED TO PLAY A CLIP FROM 60
MINUTES, AN INTERVIEW THAT HE DID AT THE TIME WHERE HE WAS
ASKED ABOUT THE INCIDENT.
ARE YOU OKAY WITH LOOKING AT IT?
YOU OK?
ISN'T IT ILLOGICAL THAT I AM GOING TO AT THE HIGH OF A VERY
BITTER ACRIMONIOUS CUSTODY FIGHT DRIVE UP TO CONNECTICUT
WHERE NOBODY LIKES ME, HOUSE FULL OF ENEMIES.
MIA WAS SO ENRAGED AT ME AND SHE HAD GOTTEN ALL THE KIDS TO
BE ANGRY AT ME, THAT I AM GOING TO DRIVE UP THERE AND
SUDDENLY ON VISITATION PICK THIS MOMENT IN MY LIFE TO BECOME
A CHILD MOLESTER.
IT IS INCREDIBLE.
IF I WANTED TO BE A CHILD MOLESTER I HAD MANY
OPPORTUNITIES IN THE PAST.
I COULD'VE QUIETLY MADE A
CUSTODY SETTLEMENT IN SOME WAY AND THEN IN THE FUTURE.
IT IS SO INSANE.
WHAT DO YOU SAY TO THAT?
I'M REALLY SORRY.
DON'T APOLOGIZE.
I THOUGHT I COULD HANDLE IT.
ARE YOU CRYING IT BECAUSE OF WHAT HE SAID OR SEEING HIM?
WHAT IS UPSETTING YOU?
HE IS LYING AND HE HAS BEEN LYING FOR SO LONG.
YEAH, AND BY THE WAY, WOODY ALLEN SAYS SHE AT THIS POINT,
THIS IS HIS VERSION, MIGHT ACTUALLY BELIEVE IT, THAT IT
HAPPENED TO HER, ALL OF THIS STUFF HAPPENED WHEN SHE WAS
SEVEN YEARS OLD AND IF SHE WAS THAT COACHED THAT KIDS WIND UP
JUST THINKING IT ACTUALLY DID HAPPEN.
FROM THAT REACTION, WHETHER IT HAPPENED OR NOT, SHE CERTAINLY
THINKS IT DID BECAUSE WHAT IS THE POINT OF ACTING LIKE THAT?
WHAT THE SHE HAD TO GAIN FROM IT?
OVERALL, IT DOESN'T LOOK GOOD FOR WOODY ALLEN BUT I WILL SAY,
AGAIN, ON A QUESTION THAT IS A LITTLE MURKY, I WOULDN'T GO
ON EITHER SIDE OF THIS.
I WOULDN'T GO AROUND SAYING WOODY ALLEN IS AWESOME AND GREAT
FRIEND AND I KNOW FOR SURE THAT HE DIDN'T DO IT BECAUSE I DON'T
KNOW HOW YOU WOULD KNOW THAT AND I ALSO I THINK THE IDEA OF GOING
BACK TO EVERY PERSON WHO HAS EVER BEEN IN ANY WOODY ALLEN
MOVIE AND JUDGING THEM FOR THE REST OF HISTORY, I THINK IT
IS A PREPOSTEROUS EXERCISE AND TO WHAT DEGREE DID THEY
KNOW ANY OF THOSE FACTS?
IT'S EASY TO JUDGE NOW BUT I THINK IF YOU ARE GOING TO
JUDGE WOODY ALLEN, THAT MAKES A LOT OF SENSE DEPENDING ON
WHERE YOU COME OUT ON THIS.
JUDGING ANYBODY HE HAS EVER BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH OR HAS EVER
APPEARED IN A MOVIE WITH HIM I THINK GOES TOO FAR.