Dylan Farrow: 'Allen's been lying so long'

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Dylan Farrow says she wishes Woody Allen had been charged over allegations he sexually abused her as a child.

"He's lying and he's been lying for so long," she told CBS's This Morning, in her first TV interview about her adoptive father.

Allen repeated his denial of the claims and issued a new statement on Thursday saying: "I never molested my daughter."

Several actors have recently distanced themselves from Allen, as Hollywood's sexual harassment scandal continues.

Dylan Farrow: Outrage after 'years of being ignored'
Farrow has long alleged that Allen sexually abused her when she was seven, in her mother Mia's country house.

Allen said in his statement: "Even though the Farrow family is cynically using the opportunity afforded by the Time's Up movement to repeat this discredited allegation, that doesn't make it any more true today than it was in the past."

In the CBS interview, Farrow said she was giving the interview because "I want to show my face and tell my story. I want to speak out, literally."

She repeated her allegation that that on 4 August, 1992, "I was taken to a small attic crawl space in my mother's country house in Connecticut by my father".

She said: "He instructed me to lay down on my stomach and play with my brother's toy train that was set up. And he sat behind me in the doorway and as I played with the toy train, I was sexually assaulted."

Allen's denial
Film director Allen was never charged, and Farrow told CBS she wishes charges had been filed following investigations at the time, because she would have "had" to take the stand.

"I do wish that they had, even if I'm just speaking in retrospect. I was already traumatised."

Farrow, now 32, was visibly emotional as she was shown a clip from US show 60 Minutes, dating back to 1992, in which Allen, now 82, vehemently denies the alleged molestation.

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