(CNN) -- In an op-ed column released Friday by The New York Times, Woody Allen blames Mia Farrow's malevolence over their breakup for a two-decade-old false accusation that he molested their adopted daughter, Dylan, when she was 7. The film director's opinion piece follows renewed allegations that were made last week by Dylan Farrow, who accused him in an open letter published by the Times of sexually assaulting her as young girl. "Not that I doubt Dylan hasn't come to believe she's been molested, but if from the age of 7 a vulnerable child is taught by a strong mother to hate her father because he is a monster who abused her, is it so inconceivable that after many years of this indoctrination the image of me Mia wanted to establish had taken root?" Allen writes in the Times.
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NEW: Dylan Farrow stands by her accusations
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In 1992, Woody Allen's and Mia Farrow's 12-year relationship ended
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Allen, then 56, was involved with Soon-Yi Previn, Farrow's 19-year-old adopted daughter
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Farrow accused Allen of molesting Dylan, then 7, whom the couple had adopted
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