Woody Allen denies molestation allegations made by daughter Dylan Farrow

Woody Allen’s adopted daughter gave a tearful television interview on Thursday, giving details of an alleged molestation by the filmmaker more than 25 years ago.

In her first television interview, Dylan Farrow told the CBS show This Morning that Allen touched her private parts when she was 7 years old.

“I loved my father. I respected him. He was my hero. And that doesn’t obviously take away from what he did. But it does make the betrayal and the hurt that much more intense,” Farrow, now 32, told Gayle King in the interview.

Allen, 82, has repeatedly denied the accusation, which was first made in 1992 in the midst of his bitter split with his then-partner, actress Mia Farrow.

In a statement on Thursday, Allen repeated his denial, and said Farrow was using the sexual misconduct scandal that has swept Hollywood to renew her accusation.

Sentiment in Hollywood against the Annie Hall director has grown in recent months with several actors distancing themselves from him or donating earnings from his films to sexual harassment support groups.

Dozens of powerful men in Hollywood, media and politics have been fired, forced to stand down, or dropped from projects in the past several months after being accused of sexual …read more