One of Mia Farrow’s sons has given an emotional show of support for her embattled ex-husband, Woody Allen — saying that he’d happily start using the famed filmmaker’s last name now that he’s estranged from Farrow.
Farrow’s daughter, Dylan, has claimed that the director sexually abused her in 1992 when she was 7 years old, and one of her brothers, Ronan, has forcefully and publicly backed her.
But their brother Moses Farrow has come out in support of Allen in a new interview with the Guardian, and alleges that Mia was “abusive” when he was a child.
“I had a disability and emotional sensitivities, and that lent itself to being a target,” Moses — whom Mia adopted as a 2-year-old suffering from cerebral palsy from South Korea in 1980 — told the paper.
Moses, Mia’s seventh child, said he continues to suffer the results of the alleged abuse.
“I’ve experienced suicidal thoughts, I’ve been in therapy for depression, I’ve certainly struggled with relationships and poor self-esteem, being a people pleaser and needing to be the perfect son,” said Moses, 42 and now working as a therapist.
He added: “The trauma in adoption comes from feeling like there’s something wrong with us because we were rejected [by our birth parents]. I felt inherently like I was a bad kid. And then the abuse at home reinforced that.”
Once a fierce defender of Mia, Moses he revealed that they’re now estranged, saying, “I recognized that it’s important to provide yourself with a sense of safety, and sometimes that means maintaining distance.”
He is close to Allen, who adopted him in December 1991. And although he kept Farrow’s last name, he told the paper, “I’d be very happy to take my father’s surname.”
Allen has strongly denied the allegations that he sexually assaulted Dylan, and he was never charged following two investigations.
In 2018, Moses published a blog arguing for his father’s innocence and calling Dylan’s allegations that Allen molested her in the attic at Mia’s Connecticut home “ridiculous.”
Mia’s daughter Soon-Yi Previn, who has two adopted daughters with Allen, whom she wed in 1997, then gave an interview backing up her brother’s claims about Mia being abusive.
But Dylan replied to Moses’ blog saying, “My brother is a troubled person,” and Ronan dismissed it as part of the “repeated campaign to discredit my sister, often by attacking my mother.”
Asked by the Guardian about Dylan and Ronan, Moses appeared to dismiss their apparent hostility to his claims as the result of abuse in their childhood home.
“We grew up together. I am their older brother. We all shared the same mother. Even if you’re not receiving that abuse directly, if you bear witness to it, it still impacts you in a deep way,” he said. “I really hold all my siblings with compassion and understand there is a need to survive, however you can do it.”
When contacted, both Mia and Ronan Farrow declined to comment, but a family source told Page Six the whole family “wishes Moses well.”
The source added: “Moses’ account is contradicted by court records and for years Moses stood by Mia and Dylan.”