On May 11, 2016, The Hollywood Reporter published a guest column from Ronan Farrow titled, “My Father, Woody Allen, and the Danger of Questions Unasked.” Until that moment, the then-28-year-old, who's the son of actress Mia Farrow and director Woody Allen, had avoided talking publicly about the sexual abuse allegations in his family. In 1992, his sister, Dylan Farrow, a seven-year-old at the time, accused Allen of sexually assaulting her, a charge Allen has denied. Farrow wanted the public to know him for his work as a journalist, not because of his famous parents and the sexual abuse allegations swirling around his estranged father. But now here was his byline on a story about the very thing from which he’d sought to distance himself.