Moses Farrow claims mother Mia became abusive as sister Dylan calls accusations ‘hurtful’

Moses Farrow, the son of Woody Allen and Mia Farrow, defends his father — and claims his mother became abusive in direction of him and his siblings, a payment she previously denied — in a detailed original private essay, titled “A Son Speaks Out,” posted on-line Wednesday.

In a assertion to PEOPLE, Moses’ sister Dylan Farrow known as his essay “an strive and deflect from a credible allegation made by an adult lady, by searching to impugn my mother who has most engrossing ever been supportive of me and my siblings.”

“It’s without grief disproven, contradicts years of his have statements, is beyond hurtful to me for my half, and is half of a more in-depth effort to discredit and distract from my assault,” she persevered. “My brother is a anxious particular person. I’m so sorry he’s doing this.”

Moses, who became adopted from South Korea as a child by Mia after which additionally adopted by Allen in 1991, became 14 when allegations exploded throughout Woody and Mia’s bitter 1993 custody dispute that Woody molested Moses’ 7-365 days-current sister Dylan. The claim became investigated, but Allen became not charged, and for a few years the director, 82, has denied abusing Dylan.

In his submit, Moses, now a family therapist and photographer, disputes particulars of Dylan’s myth and claims Mia became physically and emotionally abusive in direction of him and her other young folks.

“For all of us, lifestyles below my mother’s roof became not doable while you happen to didn’t attain precisely what you were told, no topic how questionable the quiz,” Moses writes in the original essay. “It became most considerable to my mother to venture to the world a image of a delighted blended household of both organic and adopted young folks, but this became a long way from the truth.”

In 2017, Moses leveled comparable abuse allegations to author Eric Lax, who included the feedback in a biography of Allen. Mia, now 73, responded to Moses’ feedback in a assertion on the time, asserting “It’s heartbreaking and bewildering that he would in finding that up, presumably to delight Woody.”

Dylan, who has spoken out several times in most contemporary years about her molestation claims in opposition to Allen, responded to Moses’ 2017 allegations in the Los Angeles Times, asserting: “Significantly painful is that Allen even managed to enlist my brother Moses in opposition to me. … Moses’ feedback are devastating, but love so a lot of the assaults on my memoir, irrelevant: Moses became not there for the alleged assault.”

The controversy has divided the family — and persevered to swirl spherical Allen and his movies— for a few years. Allen and Farrow, who dated for better than a decade but by no manner wed, break up in 1992 amid an myth scandal: Allen had begun a romance with Farrow’s adopted daughter, Quickly-Yi Previn, then about 20, whom he later married. Allen and Farrow headed to courtroom for a caustic custody battle over the young folks they shared: Moses, Dylan, whom they both had additionally adopted, and their organic son, 4-365 days-current Satchel, who later modified his title to Ronan and possess develop into the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who helped repeat the Harvey Weinstein scandal. (Farrow has since urged Ronan’s real father may perchance also very well be her ex-husband Frank Sinatra. Ronan has remained shut to his mother and supported his sister Dylan in her accusations in opposition to Allen.)

Amid the custody trial, Farrow alleged that Allen had molested Dylan. Various investigations followed. A team at at Yale-New Haven Hospital concluded that no sexual abuse had taken location and described Dylan as having “subject distinguishing fable from actuality.” On the other hand, Connecticut prosecutor Frank S. Maco stated there became probable place of dwelling off for a criminal case in opposition to Allen but he wouldn’t pursue prices because Dylan became too “fragile” to tackle a trial. A judge awarded Farrow paunchy custody of the young folks and denied Allen visitation with Dylan.

Dylan told her memoir publicly for the major time in 2014, launching a brand original spherical of controversy and prompting Allen and Moses to be in contact out as well.

“Finally, I didn’t molest Dylan,” Allen wrote in a New York Times op-ed .” I loved her and hope in some unspecified time in the future she’s going to take how she has been cheated out of having a loving father and exploited by a mother extra attracted to her have festering madden than her daughter’s well-being.”

Moses told PEOPLE on the time: “I don t know if my sister essentially believes she became molested or is searching to delight her mother. Dazzling my mother became very extremely efficient motivation because to be on her corrupt side became shocking.”

“My brother is dreary to me,” Dylan stated to PEOPLE in response.  “This is one of these betrayal to me and my complete family. My memories are the truth and they are mine and I will are dwelling with that for the rest of my lifestyles.”