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Woody Allen sexually assaulted me: Dylan Farrow

In a shocking public admission, Woody Allen’s adopted daughter is speaking out for the first time about the childhood sexual abuse she claims she endured at the iconic director’s hands.

Dylan Farrow was just 7 when Allen brought her up to the attic and told her to lie on the floor, she says.

“He told me to lay on my stomach and play with my brother’s electric train set. Then he sexually assaulted me. He talked to me while he did it, whispering that I was a good girl, that this was our secret, promising that we’d go to Paris and I’d be a star in his movies,” she wrote in a letter to The New York Times.

Dylan Farrow with her husband.Twitter

“To this day, I find it difficult to look at toy trains,” says Dylan, 28.

The alleged 1992 molestation, for which Allen was never charged, came as the famed movie maker’s relationship with actress Mia Farrow scandalously imploded, and Allen, then in his late 50s, revealed his sexual relationship with Mia’s then-19-year-old adopted daughter, Soon-Yi Previn.

At nearly the same time, Dylan told her mother that Allen had touched her “private parts” while at the family’s Connecticut home.

Allen’s inappropriate behavior had started long before that day in the attic, Dylan charges.

“I didn’t like it when he would stick his thumb in my mouth. I didn’t like it when I had to get in bed with him under the sheets when he was in his underwear. I didn’t like it when he would place his head in my naked lap and breathe in and breathe out,” she alleges.

“I thought it was normal. I thought this was how fathers doted on their daughters,” Farrow recalls in the “open letter” to Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, which he posted on his blog. “But what he did to me in the attic felt different. I couldn’t keep the secret anymore.

“When I asked my mother if her dad did to her what Woody Allen did to me, I honestly did not know the answer,” she writes.

Connecticut authorities investigated the disturbing allegations, which Allen vehemently denied, in the early 1990s and concluded Dylan had not been molested. A Manhattan judge who oversaw Allen’s child-custody battle with Mia, however, called evidence of sexual abuse “inconclusive.” Allen awarded Mia custody of their three children together.

Allen later married Soon-Yi.

Dylan says she had no way of knowing the “firestorm” she would trigger back then.

“I didn’t know that my father would use his sexual relationship with my sister to cover up the abuse he inflicted on me. At one point, my mother sat me down and told me that I wouldn’t be in trouble if I was lying — that I could take it all back. I couldn’t. It was all true.”

In a stunning rebuke of the Hollywood elite who fawn over the Oscar-winning Allen, Dylan says their blind eye to her pain is “torment.”

“Actors praised him at awards shows. Networks put him on TV. Critics put him in magazines . . . What if it had been your child, Cate Blanchett? Louis CK? Alec Baldwin? What if it had been you, Emma Stone? Or you, Scarlett Johansson? You knew me when I was a little girl, Diane Keaton. Have you forgotten me?”