Dylan Farrow blasts Justin Timberlake for working with Woody Allen
Dylan Farrow watched the Golden Globes on Sunday hopeful that the Time’s Up and #MeToo movements would acknowledge the sexual abuse allegations against her adoptive father, Woody Allen.
“Four years ago, at the Globes in 2014, Woody Allen was awarded the Cecil B. DeMille award for lifetime achievement. Four years ago I decided enough was enough and wrote an open letter detailing the abuse I sustained at the hands of Woody Allen,” she tweeted Sunday.
“Today, four years later, it is Globes Sunday again and many, if not most, will be wearing black on the red carpet in solidarity with the #TIMESUP movement … But I have to wonder – is time really up now? Is this really the turning point? I have no doubt it can be. I have no doubt the time is right. But in order for things to meaningfully change, they need to change unequivocally,” she wrote.
“No predator should be spared by virtue of their ‘talent’ or ‘creativity’ or ‘genius.’ No rock should be left unturned,” she concluded. “The principles of the movement need to be applied consistently and without exemption … I will watch to see if now, finally, time is up for my predator too.”
Farrow, 32, was left disappointed, specifically because Justin Timberlake wore a Time’s Up pin to the ceremony without ever acknowledging his role in 83-year-old director’s latest release, “Wonder Wheel.”
“I struggle with how a powerful force like Justin Timberlake can claim to be in awe of the strength of women and stand with them at this #MeToo moment and then in the next breath say that working with Woody Allen is a ‘dream come true,’” Farrow told BuzzFeed News on Monday.
In late November, Timberlake, 36, gushed on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” that working with Allen, 83, was a “dream come true.”
“I struggle to understand how a woman who believes Woody Allen is ’empowering to women’ can claim the role as an advocate for women suffering from sexual harassment,” she said, referring to Blake Lively, who starred in Allen’s “Café Society” in 2016 — two years after Farrow wrote a harrowing op-ed in the New York Times detailing her alleged childhood sexual abuse at the hands of the director.
“It’s of course particularly hard for me as a survivor of sexual abuse to know that for these particular individuals I am not part of the ‘every woman’ they stand for,” Farrow continued. “I seem to remain secondary to their ambition, which undermines the powerful and embracing message they are trying to send.”
“I fully support women taking a stand, linking arms with other women (and men), advocating on behalf of one another to effect change not only in the entertainment industry but in the world at large,” she said of the all-black statement at Sunday’s ceremony.
“That said, the people who join this movement without taking any kind of personal accountability for the ways in which their own words and decisions have helped to perpetuate the culture they are fighting against, that’s hard for me to reconcile.”
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