The 28-year-old recently renewed claims first made in a 1993 custody battle that she was abused by Allen when she was 7 years old.
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Woody Allen and adopted daughter Dylan Farrow
Allen responded by laying out testimony suggesting his ex-wife Mia Farrow concocted the claims for revenge. He added that he passed a lie detector test at the time, while Mia refused to take one.
In a letter provided to The Hollywood Reporter , Dylan stated: "Once again, Woody Allen is attacking me and my family in an effort to discredit and silence me - but nothing he says or writes can change the truth.
"For 20 years, I have never wavered in describing what he did to me. I will carry the memories of surviving these experiences for the rest of my life."
She added: "His op-ed is the latest rehash of the same legalese, distortions and outright lies he has levelled at me for the past 20 years. He insists my mother brought criminal charges - in fact, it was a paediatrician who reported the incident to the police based on my first-hand account.
"He suggests that no-one complained of his misconduct prior to his assault on me - court documents show that he was in treatment for what his own therapist described as "inappropriate" behaviour with me from as early as 1991.
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Woody Allen and Mia Farrow
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Allen and wife Soon-Yi Previn
"He offers a carefully-worded claim that he passed a lie detector test - in fact, he refused to take the test administered by the state police (he hired someone to administer his own test, which authorities refused to accept as evidence)."
Dylan also thanked people for their support, saying: "From the bottom of my heart, I will be forever grateful for the outpouring of support I have received from survivors and countless others. If speaking out about my experience can help others stand up to their tormentors, it will be worth the pain and suffering my father continues to inflict on me."
She concluded by stating: "Woody Allen has an arsenal of lawyers and publicists but the one thing he does not have on his side is the truth. I hope this is the end of his vicious attacks and of the media campaign by his lawyers and publicists, as he's promised.
"I won't let the truth be buried and I won't be silenced."
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