Mia Farrow wrote candidly Wednesday about the deaths of three of her 14 children, and for the first time publicly acknowledged that her daughter Tam died of a drug overdose in 2000.
Farrow, 76, said she was addressing “vicious rumors” about the deaths of Tam in 2000, Lark in 2008 and Thaddeus in 2016. Farrow has adopted 10 children, including two during her relationship with Woody Allen between 1980 and 1992.
“Few families are perfect, and any parent who has suffered the loss of a child knows that pain is merciless and ceaseless,” she wrote Wednesday. “However, some vicious rumors based on untruths have appeared online concerning the lives of three of my children.”
“My beloved daughter Tam passed away at seventeen from an accidental prescription overdose related to the agonizing migraines she suffered, and her heart ailment,” Farrow wrote.
When Tam died in 2000, it was reported that she died from heart failure at age 20. In 2018, Farrow’s estranged son Moses said Tam died by suicide, knowingly taking too many pills after a fight with Mia. Moses claimed Mia would tell people Tam’s overdose was accidental; Mia did not publicly address Tam’s death following the post.
Mia also wrote Wednesday about the death of her daughter Lark, who died at age 35 from AIDS in 2008, and her son Thaddeus, who died by suicide in 2016. Reports at the time said Thaddeus was 27 when he died, but Mia said Wednesday that he was 29.
The fractured Farrow family was the subject of the recent four-part HBO series “Allen v. Farrow,” which concluded in mid-March.
Dylan Farrow, the 35-year-old adopted daughter of Allen and Farrow, said her father sexually abused her in 1992 when she was 7 years old. Allen was investigated that year and not charged with a crime.
In the following years, the family split, with Mia and prominent journalist Ronan Farrow, the only biological child of Mia and Woody, among those standing by Dylan.
Allen continued to deny Dylan’s account, and Moses took his adoptive father’s side. In the 2018 post, Moses also said Mia abused him and her other children when they were young.
Dylan responded by blasting Moses’ accounts, calling them “easily disproven.”
Allen is currently married to Soon-Yi Previn, who he first met as Mia’s adopted daughter from a previous relationship. The two wed in 1997.
After her mother tweeted Wednesday, Dylan responded, “Love you Mom.”
