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Telling story of Ronan Farrow's dishonesty and distortions ...


this is from an article linked here:
THE RISE AND FAiL OF RONAN FARROW
https://ronanfarrowletter.wordpress.com/2020/07/20/the-rise-and-fail-of-ronan-farrow/

The first thing to mention might be how Mia decided to continually change the names of her children ... all of them. I've never know any parent who changes the name of their child past infancy, but apparently Mia did it all the time.

It also seems odd that it is generally accepted and Mia who told Woody Allen that Ronan was his biological son has stated publicly that Ronan could be ( i.e. is ) the child of Frank Sinatra, and not Woody Allen as listed on his birth certificate.

This author of this article was Rick Worley, and he wrote this for Robert Weide's blog after Weide had seen Worley's YouTube video "By The Way Woody Allen Is Innocent" a 2.5 hour long documentary, an actually documented documentary on YouTube. You can find that documentary here:

By The Way Woody Allen Is Innocent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muyaCg2dGAk

The main question in writing about this was posed in the introduction to the article:

The challenge in setting the record straight is you have at the center of this story a young woman who claims she was sexually assaulted at the age of seven. How do you expose the impossibility of that claim without sounding like one more jerk denying a young woman’s agency, or the often-virtuous aims of the #MeToo movement?

The answer was apparently to take one sensationalized claim after another and calmly and factually follow up on them, which Worley's video does brilliantly.

But my comment here is about the credibility of Ronan's statements on this matter balanced against the actual documentation available.

Ronan claimed in 2014 that he believes his sister, and that he was disturbed as a 5 year old child about his climbing into bed with her and forcing her to suck his thumb. And that these were reasons Woody was in therapy for "inappropriate behavior" towards Dylan that caused Woody to have to start therapy around this "inappropriate behavior".

The article is amazed at how Ronan loaded so many lies into his statement in such a short space. First, Ronan never saw Woody past the age of 4, and at time Ronan refers to he would have been closer to 3. There is also the fact that Woody never slept at Mia's house, so the middle of the night weird thumb-sucking claims are untrue to say the least. They apparently came from Mia Farrows claims in her book "What Falls Away" where SHE, Mia, claims to have seen this.

It is well documented that Woody went to Ronan's and Dylan's therapy sessions with Mia at the request of their respective therapists because both of these children had emotional issues. Dr, Susan Coates confirms that she was hired to treat Satchel, Ronan's earlier name, when he was two years old and that she always encouraged the parents of her patients to attend sessions.

Dylan was seeing Dr. Nancy Schultz because Mia complained that Woody was spending too much time with Dylan. Woody says he did that because Mia spent all her time with Satchel/Ronan and he was trying to balance that out Never-mind all the other adopted kids with emotional problems that let 3 of them to early deaths.

Ronan's doctor was concerned that Mia spent too much time with Ronan in what she called an "overly intense" relationship.

Coates also said she saw no indication of anything sexual in Woody's relationship with Dylan, but as Ronan describes things, he twisted the phrase "inappropriate behavior" into implications of sexual molestation or something that it was not. Here is an excerpt from the article:

The endlessly repeated distortion suggesting that Allen was in therapy for inappropriate behavior toward Dylan is misleading to begin with, but then Ronan tries to up the ante by saying the behavior that precipitated the therapy was toward “children” (plural), to imply that there might be more than one alleged victim.

This shows the dishonesty and the tricky tactics that has been used to character assassinate Woody Allen. Everything he said was a dishonest pack of slanderous lies. Not an understatement. Woody says this is pure fiction.

We asked Allen about this as well and he flatly denied it, saying, “Having a child suck on my thumb is not something I would welcome or allow. Did it happen once or twice for a second or two? I can’t say with 100% certainty. But I wouldn’t find it amusing or cute and certainly would never initiate or encourage it.”

These are just minor citations of lies and dishonesty in reporting, but the reader my get the point, and if you want to find out more of the truth, that is documented fact and not the Farrows covering up for each other, now you at least know a few places to look.

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