Mira Sorvino Pens Apology to Dylan Farrow for Believing Woody Allen

After a lifetime isolating herself from the media, Dylan Farrow wrote a public letter  in 2014 in which she detailed her sexual abuse by her father, famous writer/director Woody Allen. She spoke about the pain of having to tell her story over and over and over again during the bitterly fought custody battle between her mother (actress Mia Farrow) and Allen – a battle that left Allen to continue to pursue his fame and awards and the Farrows painted as lying maniacs.

Even still, she was largely ignored and dismissed.

In a twist that was made for the movies, it was her own brother who finally legitimized her story by breaking one of the biggest Hollywood scandals in history. Suddenly everyone who had once turned a blind eye to the perversion of the Hollywood power set was shouting #MeToo and rushing to take the hand of the nearest victim. Even still, no one was brave enough to at least question Allen.

No one, that is, until Thursday when actress Mira Sorvino penned a letter in the Huffington Post to Farrow. Sorvino has been a very public presence in the Harvey Weinstein scandal and while she’s been fairly quiet about her experience with Weinstein, she did promise to make a public statement eventually.

That she did, only Sorvino quite admirably didn’t make her first statement about herself. Instead she directly apologized to Dylan Farrow for ignoring her story for so long. Sorvino won an Oscar in the 1995 Woody Allen film Mighty Aphrodite. In her open letter she apologized to Farrow, explaining that she was a young actress who idolized Woody Allen and she just didn’t want to believe the worst.

What I have to say next is not a justification, simply a description of my background with Woody at that time and since. As an adolescent, I cherished my copy of his book “Without Feathers.” I played the Diane Keaton role in a high school production of “Play It Again, Sam” and had grown up, like so many in my generation, in awe of his films. As a young actress I landed the dream role of Linda Ash in “Mighty Aphrodite,” and the artistic license he allowed me to create the character was thrilling. We were friendly though not close, but in no way did he ever overstep his bounds with me; I never personally experienced what has now been described as inappropriate behavior toward young girls.  But this does not excuse my turning a blind eye to your story simply because I wanted desperately for it not to be so.

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