I'm going to read you something written by Dylan Farrow, daughter of legendary actress Mia Farrow and filmmaker Woody Allen.

What's your favorite Woody Allen movie? Before you answer, you should know. When I was seven years old, Woody Allen took me by the hand and led me into a dim, closet-like attic on the second floor of our house.

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.

I remember staring at that toy train, focusing on it as it traveled in its circle around the attic. To this day, I find it difficult to look at toy trains.

Dylan Farrow wrote that after her father received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Golden Globes. Dylan's experience has been widely covered, often questioned, sometimes attacked by the media, Hollywood elite, and the public over the last three decades.

But what has been rarely talked about is what happened to Dylan after the age of seven. When did she last see her father? How did she navigate her teen years? How did she feel when her father married her sister, Suni?

On this episode of Navigating Narcissism, Dylan Farrow reveals her experiences with self-harm, eating disorders, depression, the devastating effects of suffering in silence, and how motherhood and marriage have helped her heal and thrive.

From Red Table Talk Podcasts and I Heart Media, I'm Dr. Romani, and this is Navigating Narcissism.

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Dylan, it's such a pleasure and such an honor to meet you and just to have a conversation. Thank you so much for having me.

Dylan, when we hear an experience like yours, it's so easy to get focused on the notoriety and the fame of the perpetrator.

And in doing that, we actually lose the true story of the survivor, you. Today on Navigating Narcissism, the focus is on you, your experience of healing and surviving and even thriving after that.

And as a therapist, I can tell you, survivors are asked many times, unfortunately, to keep telling the story of what happened over and over again. I believe that survivors should be in full ownership of their stories.

So Dylan, I want you to begin telling us your story, whatever you feel comfortable.

Thank you. It's a little difficult to pinpoint a beginning because I would say it started when I was in infancy.

I almost feel like there wasn't really a chance for me to experience a normal quote unquote childhood from infancy. I was tremendously overprivileged.

And I had this fairy tale childhood that had a much darker side to it that started as soon as I can remember even having memories.

Backtracked the abuse about that long. It was a constant throughout my childhood of grooming and abuse, which culminated in the attic incident when I was seven or eight years old.

And I think people tend to look at that as sort of an isolated event when really it was a long process.

It is a long process. And I think that you're framing on that is so important. Dylan, because we do often get caught up in this culmination and an episode that feels like the defining event.

But it wasn't that it was a process and that process shaped your identity and it shaped your psychology.

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