Alec Baldwin has pushed back against Dylan Farrow and her accusations of abuse from her adopted father, Woody Allen, multiple times. Baldwin has worked with Allen and has been a staunch supporter of the controversial director. Though the actor has always been upfront about his feelings about Farrow, in 2018, he took his beliefs about her to the next level, taking to Twitter to express his thoughts. Per Vanity Fair, Baldwin compared her to Mayella Ewell, the white woman who falsely accused Tom Robinson, a Black man, of rape in “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
Farrow responded to Baldwin’s comparison in The Hollywood Reporter, saying it was “interesting” he would ignore the decisions of Justice Wilk and Prosecutor Frank Maco, who actually saw the evidence of her assault. She also added a literary detail to her response: “Considering that Mr. Baldwin confidently invoked Mayella Ewell to make his point while forgetting that it’s been hotly debated that she was, in fact, raped by her father, demonstrates that perhaps Baldwin is just not a stickler for details.”
Vanity Fair further noted that this incident was not the first time Baldwin had lashed out in support of a “former collaborator implicated in the #MeToo movement.” Instead of standing with the over 200 women who accused filmmaker James Toback of sexual harassment, he went after Decider writer Kayla Cobb, who had spoken about her problems with Toback in “Seduced and Abandoned.”
If you or anyone you know has been a victim of sexual assault, help is available. Visit the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network website or contact RAINN’s National Helpline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673).
