Soon-Yi Previn is under attack from Ronan and Dylan Farrow.
An interview with Soon-Yi appeared here:
Soon-Yi discusses the abuse she suffered at the hands of Mia Farrow, something Ronan and Dylan know nothing about. Ronan was four and Dylan was seven last time they saw her. Most of what Soon-Yi talks about happened before they were born.
You think there's a racial element to this? Mia Farrow's two favorite white children, Ronan and Dylan, are attacking Moses Farrow and Soon-Yi Previn, both adopted from Korea.
Moses was the fourth child Mia Farrow adopted from east Asia. Of those four, at least three, Daisy, Soon-Yi and Moses, became completely estranged from her. We don't know what her relationship with Lark is like.
Two of the children Farrow adopted later, Tam and Thaddeus, committed suicide.
Moses and Soon-Yi have told the same story. Ronan Farrow has nothing to say except what his mother drilled into him.
Even if Ronan realizes he's wrong, he won't change his tune. He's ambitious, he's parlayed this into a career and is making millions. He's too invested in it to change his story now. I don't know if Dylan Farrow really believes what she's saying, but she can't very well change her story either.
Dylan Farrow, who has long accused Allen of sexually abusing her when she was seven (abuse Allen denies), excoriated the magazine for getting Allen’s friend, Daphne Merkin, to interview Previn and write “a one-sided piece”. But Dylan herself gave a one-sided interview about the alleged abuse in 2014 to the New York Times’s Nicholas Kristof, who is a friend of the Farrow family (the New York Times’ then public editor, Margaret Sullivan, wrote that she was “troubled” by the publishing of Kristof’s piece). Ronan Farrow, meanwhile, who has done such sterling work in the past year writing about sexual abusers, complained that the interview constituted “a hit job” that lacked “eyewitness testimony”. And yet the eyewitness here is Previn herself, and to a large degree what she says in this interview about what she describes as her physically and emotionally fraught childhood in the Farrow home echoes what her brother Moses, now a 40-year-old family therapist, wrote in a recent blog, which Mia Farrow has denied. So unless Ronan and Dylan Farrow want to make the argument that only their claims of abuse are worth listening to, not those of their siblings, then they’ll struggle to argue that people should not listen to Soon-Yi Previn. (The Guardian has contacted Mia Farrow’s representatives for a response to Previn’s allegations, but is yet to receive a reply.)
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