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Sean Penn Defends Woody Allen Against ‘Cancellation’ Over Abuse Allegations, Would Work With Him Again
Sean Penn expressed doubt that Woody Allen sexually abused his daughter, Dylan Farrow, and stated that he has no qualms about working with the director in the future.
In an open letter to The New York Times in 2014, Farrow came forward to accuse Allen, her adopted father, of molesting her when she was seven. The accusation came a few months after Farrow found out that Allen had begun a relationship with his then-21-year-old adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn. Allen has long denied Farrow’s allegations and was never charged with the crime. Four years later, Farrow wrote an op-ed in The Los Angeles Times, positing the question, “Why has the #MeToo revolution spared Woody Allen?”
Allen recently said that he may not make another movie due to his “cancellation” by Hollywood.
Penn previously worked with Allen in the 1999 musical comedy Sweet and Lowdown, along with actors Uma Thurman, Anthony LaPaglia and Samantha Morton. He has insisted that Allen, 89, was never proven guilty of the crime.
“I’d work with him in a heartbeat – if it was the right [project],” Penn said on the Louis Theroux Podcast.
When asked by Theroux if he thought Allen had been subject to unfair criticism, Penn responded, “With these things, I don’t know anyone well enough to say, ‘100%, this didn’t happen, that didn’t happen.’…The stories are mostly told by people that I wouldn’t trust with a dime. It just seems to heavily weighted in that way.”
Theroux tried to clarify, “You’re talking generally, right? Or, not specifically about Woody Allen?” Theroux went on to point out that Farrow and her brother, Ronan, a journalist who writes for The New Yorker and is “quite respected,” both made the allegations, which were first initiated by their mother, Mia Farrow.
Penn responded, “Put it this way: I am not aware — and maybe I’m just an ignoramus, that’s a possibility – I am not aware of any clinical psychologist or psychiatrist or anyone I’ve ever heard talk or spoken to around the subject of pedophilia that in 80 years of life, there’s accusations of it happening only once.”
He went on, “And when people try to associate what were his, let’s say, much younger girlfriends, right or wrong is not the conversation here. Post-puberty, consensual stuff is to me a different conversation.”
Penn asked, “Who benefited from that? Let’s just take a second. That’s all I’m saying.”
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Some relevant facts. No less than *four* legal investigations have been conducted, all by child abuse expert instances working in Dylan Farrow’s best interest. *All four* concluded that the allegation was NOT credible. The child abuse experts working for the CT prosecution (!) concluded beyond doubt that Dylan was NOT abused by her father, and that her mother had MOST LIKELY ‘coached’ her daughter to tell about ‘abuse’ that never took place.
All judges at the NY Supreme and Appellate court did NOT believe the ‘abuse’ allegation, even when as custody judges they did not need hard evidence, and were 100% free to believe the ‘abuse’ or even to give it the advantage of doubt. They ruled that the evidence pointed to NO abuse having taken place rather than that it had.
NOT EVEN the Farrows’ attorney, Eleanor Alter, believed the ‘abuse’ happened. She stated that Dylan’s ‘abuse story’ may have been caused by her wild fantasy, for which Mia had put her in therapy.
NOT EVEN Mia’s hired expert, Dr Steven Herman, believed the allegation. He testified that Mia had ‘interviewed Dylan’ using leading questions that ‘set a tone for a child about how to answer’.
Dylan’s nannies did not believe the ‘abuse’. Dylan’s two child therapists did not believe the abuse.
Not even the only direct witness to the alleged ‘abuse’ event, Dylan’s older brother Moses, believes the ‘abuse’. He stated Dylan couldn’t have been abused, as he had watched his little sister all the time, and immediately went to their nanny to say that their mother had ‘made up’ the abuse.
If in spite of all established facts, all expert opinions, the whole of witness testimony, and all legal decisions you still believe any of Dylan’s wildy inconsistent stories about the ‘abuse’ is still true, then I have *all of Amsterdam’s bridges* to sell to you.