Farrow shares assault story with CBS show

NEW YORK — In her first televised interview, Dylan Farrow described in detail Woody Allen’s alleged sexual assault of her, and called actors who work in his films “complicit” in perpetuating a “culture of silence.”

Farrow, the adopted daughter of Allen and Mia Farrow, appeared in a taped interview Thursday on “CBS This Morning.” Farrow recounted the 1992 incident, when she was 7 years old, in which she said Allen molested her in her mother’s Connecticut home.

“With so much silence being broken by so many brave people against so many high-profile people, I felt it was important to add my story to theirs because it’s something I’ve struggled with for a long time,” Farrow said. “It was very momentous for me to see this conversation finally carried into a public setting.”

Farrow, now 32, described being taken to a crawl space by Allen.

“He instructed me to lay down on my stomach and play with my brother’s toy train that was set up,” she said. “And he sat behind me in the doorway, and as I played with the toy train, I was sexually assaulted,” Farrow said.

Allen was investigated but wasn’t charged, and he has long denied inappropriately touching Farrow. In a statement Thursday, Allen reiterated his denial and said “the Farrow family is cynically using the opportunity afforded by the Time’s Up movement to repeat this discredited allegation.”

“I never molested my daughter — as all investigations concluded a quarter of a century ago,” Allen said.

After a seven-month investigation, a team of child-abuse specialists at Yale-new Haven Hospital concluded Dylan had not been molested.